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- UCR professor wins book award - Riverside Press Enterprise
Christopher Abani, a professor of creative writing at UC Riverside, has won the PEN/Beyond Margins Award for his novel "Song for Night." Abani said the award is a particular honor for him because it is from a prestigious writers' organization and is ...
- Venturing Out: Latitude Festival in review - Drowned In Sound
Artists: Snow Patrol , Mogwai , Part Chimp , The Zutons , The Veils , Youthmovies , Polytechnic , The Pipettes , Mystery Jets , Regina Spektor , Antony And The Johnsons , My Latest Novel , Guillemots , King Creosote , Noisettes , The Early Years ...
- Caring banks could have prevented housing crisis - Post-Tribune
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."Â -- Robert Frost In his book "Kennedy," Theodore C. Sorensen wrote "Few will forget the memorable moments of that solemn ceremony at ...
- The spa gondala of Venice - Times Online
Times OnlineThe spa gondala of VeniceTimes Online, UK - 6 hours agoViggo Mortensen, portrayer of all things dark and broody in films such as A History of Violence and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is a dab hand with a ...
- Handicraft items big draw at Liwa Festival - Khaleej Times
Handicraft items big draw at Liwa FestivalKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 2 hours agoAmong the events that will be held during the festival are poetry evenings, group weddings, games, lectures on date palm breeding, religious lectures and ...
- Callaway, MaryKatherine - Baton Rouge Business Report
Quite simply, I have the best job in the world as director of a fine university press like LSUP–great authors, a wonderful group of colleagues, and the thrill of being part of fulfilling a powerful mission. What is your greatest professional ...
- Gloria! It's Patti Smith on the Big Screen - New York Observer
Patti Smith – the Jersey-born queen of Bowery punk – hits the silver screen with Steven Sebring’s documentary Patti Smith: Dream of Life . The film should hit theaters in late summer, with a DVD release to follow next year, Variety reports. Mr ...
- Nightlife Calendar: 07/04/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Nightlife Calendar: 07/04/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 48 minutes agoMon. open mic, music and poetry third Thurs. of month; 1121 E. Front, TC; 946-4476; www.jacobswell.info. Kilkenny's Irish Public House, live music 9:30 ...
- A look at the best books for fall - Corpus Christi Caller
The list of upcoming fiction is both broad and deep, particularly in new titles by old names. Here's the list, starting with a very familiar name: "The Widows of Eastwick" by John Updike (Knopf, $24.95). Oct. 31. A writer comfortable with sequels ...
- Guy Browning's top 10 Christmas books - guardian.co.uk
Guy Browning's top 10 Christmas booksguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoPoetry that uses some very modern imagery to illustrate some very ancient truths. 9. The Night Before Christmas by Clement C Moore (illustrated by Christian ...
- Senior shows the way to make an impression - Asbury Park Press
Senior shows the way to make an impressionAsbury Park Press, NJ - 3 hours agoHe created the first African-American history program at the school. The program consisted of a variety of acts, including skits featuring black figures ...
- The ten weirdest exam questions - Times Online
Students taking their finals in Cambridge last week were bemused to turn over their papers to find a question asking them to compare the poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh to the lyrics of Amy Winehouse. Yet mischief-making by the examiners is not new ...
- Writing his own story (The Salem News)
"Please, no doom and gloom," Christopher Reardon asks. "This isn't another kid in a wheelchair crying about his life." This is a kid in a wheelchair who says he's trying to tell the truth about his life. A kid, a man, really, who just turned 22 and wants his writings to challenge the way people think about cancer survivors, wheelchair drivers and maybe even the world.
- Answers: rebel with a cause - Daily Northwestern
Answers: rebel with a causeDaily Northwestern, IL - 1 hour agoI used to enter poetry contests and stuff like that. I got into rap because a friend of mine was so impressed by some of the rappers back in 1987 that I ...
- Tennant in Hamlet: Your reviews (BBC News)
Dr Who actor David Tennant took to the stage as Hamlet in Stratford-upon-Avon - and the BBC News readers sent us their reviews.
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