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- More literary listings - Chicago Sun-Times
* Author signs Book Title Here, Time and place. * Kathleen Rooney and Jasmine Dreame Wagner read from their new books, 7 p.m. at Quimby's, 1854 W. North. * Jacqueline Carey signs Kushiel's Mercy, 7:30 p.m. at Borders, 2817 N. Clark. * Kimberla Lawson ...
- After 30 years, the song remains the same at ArmadilloCon, Texas ... - Austin Chronicle
Anyone watching recent coverage of the massive Comic-Con in San Diego must think that all science-fiction conventions are costumed extravaganzas, and long-suffering fans of literary science fiction might wonder what happened to conventions where the ...
- FBI Arrests NH Child-Sex Fugitive In Mexico - WCSH
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A fugitive on the FBI's most-wanted list for an alleged child sexual assault in New Hampshire is being returned to the state after being arrested in Mexico. Prosecutors say Jon Savarino Schillaci sexually assaulted a 5-year-old ...
- Family asks help with daughter's medical expenses - Eagle-Tribune
If you've been to the 99 Restaurant on River Street, you may have met hostess Wendy Woznicki. She's the daughter of 99 bartender Don "Crackers" McGrath and his wife, Sharon McGrath. On March 21, while at home, Woznicki suffered a brain aneurysm. She ...
- He's San Francisco's pugilistic poet, for better or verse (Los Angeles Times)
August Kleinzahler has made a name for himself -- as the bad boy of American poetry -- with his fighting words, and ways. August Kleinzahler gets into fights at poetry readings.
- Hey Wii Owners ... It's Time to Eat! - MCV
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - Jul 11, 2008 - Video game publisher Mastiff announced today that the first videogame based on the exciting world of competitive eating will launch exclusively for WiiWare on July 14th, 2008. Major League Eating: The Game ...
- Details of student-teacher e-mails read in Baggio sex trial - Windsor Star
A female student who says she had a sexual relationship with teacher Mark Baggio kept on her computer an image he sent to her of a man's penis, Baggio's trial heard Tuesday. The image was attached to an e-mail sent from Baggio's account, court heard ...
- Crazy penguins, frozen fish - Newsday
The new documentary from the eccentric German director Werner Herzog , "Encounters at the End of the World" (opening tomorrow at Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington), is not your typical nature film. Invited by the National Science Foundation to explore ...
- On This Day in History: July 10 ‘Just an Average Guy’ - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
On This Day in History: July 10 ‘Just an Average Guy’Brooklyn Daily Eagle, NY - 17 minutes agoIn his early teens he began to write songs, and during his high school years he played with a folk/bluegrass band. Arlo was just past his teen years when in ...
- ASK MICK LASALLE, Chronicle Movie Critic (San Francisco Chronicle)
Dear Mick LaSalle: What has become of Meg Ryan? So very popular and with so many movies during the 1990s, she seems to have disappeared completely. Kent Semper, Oakland Dear Kent Semper: Meg Ryan had the bad taste to turn 40 in 2001, and she compounded that...
- Identity in the East End - Guardian Unlimited
Sometime in the late 60s, the novelist and poet Emanuel Litvinoff took a trip back to Whitechapel in the East End of London, where he had grown up in the 1920s and 1930s. He expected to find some version of the Jewish neighbourhood that had formed ...
- Siniora: Lebanese financier turned politician - Zawya
Siniora: Lebanese financier turned politicianZawya, United Arab Emirates - 12 hours agoHe was a friend of the late tycoon for some 45 years, benefiting from his meteoric rise from rags to riches. Critics have blamed him for the ...
- Poetry Slam allows young and old to use the power of words - UT The Daily Texan
Poetry Slam allows young and old to use the power of wordsUT The Daily Texan, TX - 2 hours agoAustin Slam member DaShade Moonbeam defended his status as a "Black nerd" but mocked himself by adding that he cried during "Transformers. ...
- Hampstead 1, Bloomsbury 0: Penelope Fitzgerald's loves and letters - Times Online
A. S. Byatt ends her preface to So I Have Thought of You, a collection of Penelope Fitzgerald’s letters, with a moment of personal reminiscence: "I spoke to her, possibly for the last time, at one of the award parties for the Cohen Prize. She ...
- How to build on a teacher's inspiration - Cape Cod Times
How to build on a teacher's inspirationCape Cod Times, MA - 17 minutes ago"If the child is writing poetry, tell them about a poetry slam coming up. Try to connect them with a teacher who runs the literary magazine. ...
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