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- Watcher: Taking a break from TV to talk 'Hobbit' (Chicago Tribune)
- New in Paperback - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Robert Goddard's lush historical novel Past Caring (Delta, 501 pp., $12) circles the lives of two ruined men. Beset by scandal, Martin Radford gets a second chance and is hired to delve into the ruination of a once- promising British politician ...
- Jean C. Soule, 89, children's author, educator - Philadelphia Inquirer
Jean Conder Soule, 89, formerly of Springfield, Delaware County, a children's book author, poet, and educator, died of heart failure Sunday at Riddle Village, a retirement community in Media. While raising a family in Springfield, Mrs. Soule wrote ...
- Afghan poet's tomb calls to lovelorn (Toronto Star)
A lady who died for love is perhaps not the best patron saint for romance. I'm just saying. Yet Afghan girls of nubile age keep coming to her austere tomb here and pouring out their hearts, so often yearning for what has been forbidden.
- Florence 'to revoke Dante exile' - BBC News
Seven hundred years after it sent Dante into lifetime exile on pain of death, Florence is having a re-think. The city council has backed a motion that calls for the author of The Divine Comedy to be rehabilitated by the mayor of Florence at a public ...
- Our view: A weekend to reflect - Duluth News Tribune
Our view: A weekend to reflectDuluth News Tribune, MN - 6 hours agoDuluth’s annual Day of Remembrance — with poetry, music and reflection — is at noon Monday at the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial. ...
- Man on Wire - Premiere Magazine
Man on WirePremiere Magazine, NY - 5 hours agoSure, there's a whiff of death — 1350 feet is a long way to fall — but even the risk of dying is part of Petit's love of the walk. "If I die," he says, ...
- this week / john caddy (Pioneer Press)
John Caddy, who has dedicated his adult life to writing and teaching about the environment, celebrates publication of "With Mouths Open Wide: New and Selected Poems" (Milkweed Editions, $18) with a reading at 2 p.m. next Sunday at Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis.
- Irom Sharmila: Eight years on, and still fighting - MorungExpress
Irom Sharmila: Eight years on, and still fightingMorungExpress, India - 2 hours agoSubsequently, we discussed books whenever we met -- Buddhist texts, Manipuri poetry, the newspapers, Che Guevara’s Motorcycle Diaries, Swami Rama’s Mystics ...
- The Key To Success: Passion - Minyanville.com
The Key To Success: PassionMinyanville.com, New York - 31 minutes agoWeldon majored in English at Colgate University, developing a fondness for the poetry of John Donne. Right out of college in 1983, he took a job with a ...
- Never mind the Bullock - Colorado Springs Independent
Colorado Springs IndependentNever mind the BullockColorado Springs Independent, CO - 1 hour agoTall City actually started out with Bullock reading his poetry over electronic music composed on his 1980-vintage Apple computer. ...
- CV-S junior experiences chance of a lifetime (The Cooperstown Crier)
CHERRY VALLEY — Cherry Valley-Springfield junior Meredith Doubleday got the chance of a lifetime recently. She was able to walk on the same ground and sit in the same places Robert Frost once sat.
- Star treatment for hometown guy (Boston Globe)
Michael Chiklis, the Andover native best known for his role as detective Vic Mackey on "The Shield," was honored in his hometown on June 27. The 44-year-old Andover High School graduate was recognized for his career accomplishments, which include an Emmy and a Golden Globe, awards he won for his work on the popular cable television series. In a ...
- ‘By making theatre together, we diminish the borders between us’ - The Herald
‘By making theatre together, we diminish the borders between us’The Herald, UK - 1 hour ago"Our great tradition is our poetry. We carry our poetry with us. Any Arab carries his poetry with him. Always.' "This man's journey through the play has to ...
- Abed Z. Bhuyan - On Faith
On FaithAbed Z. BhuyanOn Faith, DC - 2 hours agoIt took experimenting with different mediums, particularly creative writing (Khaled Abou El Fadl's Search For Beauty in Islam) and poetry (Khalil Gibran's ...
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