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- Walden Festival celebrates 30 years (The Sauk Prairie Eagle)
The August Derleth Society will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year during its annual Walden West Festival. In its 30 years, the 250-member society has done a lot to ensure Derleth has a lasting legacy. Â Having written more than 150 books in his lifetime, Derleth is often regarded as Wisconsin's most prolific author. But he is perhaps more known for being the first person to publish horror ...
- Dirty Little Secret (The Advocate)
In her latest book, Abortion & Life , bisexual author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner has compiled the stories of 15 women who discuss one of their most personal moments -- their abortions.
- A Note on Freakonomics Student and Teacher Guides - New York Times Blogs
School is back in session, and Freakonomics continues to get shoved down the throats of students in everything from economics and finance classes to philosophy and literature classes. For this we are grateful, if baffled. To make things easier, our ...
- Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement? - Slashdot
Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement?Slashdot - 13 hours agoWhy should English majors study poetry, when so few will become poets? Why should Business majors study economics, when so few will actually become ...
- For the Love of Skipjacks - Bay Weekly
Sails taut and spray flying, sailing vessels have plowed through time and our imaginations. With every adventure came a sailor’s story. On the Chesapeake, the broad-beamed skipjack has inspired many tales, from the work of dredging oysters to the ...
- Young-audience series marks 15 years (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
The Rosenthal Next Generation Theatre Series returns to Playhouse in the Park with 16 globe-trotting theatrical stories for young audiences.
- BOOK REVIEW: Mother's mysterious friend drives 'Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn' (The Charlotte Observer)
"Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn" by Alice Mattison; Harper Perennial ($14.95) In "Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn," writer Alice Mattison weaves a story of four women and life-changing events that take place 14 1/2 years apart. There's Constance Tepper, known as Con; her mother, Gertrude; and Con's daughter Joanna. But it's Marlene Silverman, Gertrude's lifelong best friend, whose ...
- Sloppy Seconds (Washington City Paper)
The Grass Ceiling: The Game chronically sticks to old complaints and war stories.
- Family, friends reflect on two killed in crash - Tallahassee Democrat
Family, friends reflect on two killed in crashTallahassee Democrat, FL - 2 hours agoFSU instructor Sandra Simonds said, e_SDLqChristina was a quiet but intense presence in my poetry class this summer. Her poems spoke of a deep love for her ...
- Missing Vermont from 387 miles away - Vineland Daily Journal
Missing Vermont from 387 miles awayVineland Daily Journal, NJ - 9 hours agoBut I am trying to heed Rainer Maria Rilke: "If your daily life seems poor, don't blame it, blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to ...
- Words of Wisdom: Finding what a poem “means†- Marconews
Words of Wisdom: Finding what a poem “meansâ€Marconews, FL - 51 minutes agoPoems most often convey meaning through a personal/universal dynamic; the life experiences, personal observations, or individual thoughts of the poet will ...
- Eminem's mother's tell-all book to get US release - Entertainment.uk.msn.com
Eminem's mother, Debbie Nelson, will release a "tell-all" book about her rapper son, 'My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem: Setting The Record Straight On My Life As Eminem's Mother', on November 1 in the US. Nelson is billing the book, ghost-written by ...
- Dozens get in the rhythm for state's 1st poetry fest (Boston Globe)
LOWELL - To Susan Roney-O'Brien, poetry is a rock-solid constant in an otherwise unpredictable life.
- Author’s own path to God was anything but smooth - Toledo Blade
William P. “Paul†Young describes The Shack as a metaphorical place where “you get stuck, you get hurt, you get damaged, where you hide your lies and you store your secrets and hope you don’t have to go back to.†The unassuming 53-year-old ...
- Book fair, parade highlight Dominican Independence Day (The Eagle-Tribune)
LAWRENCE — It's going to be a bittersweet Independence Day celebration for Dominicans after Jose Balbuena, who they were going to honor, died last week after battling cancer. "We don't want this to be a sad posthumous moment because we were going to honor him anyway," said Dario Silverio, parade organizer. "We want to remember him as he was, happy, full of life."
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