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- Challenge yourself - MU The Parthenon (subscription)
Challenge yourselfMU The Parthenon (subscription), WV - 3 hours agoIt is sad that we still live in a time where writers of novels, short stories and poetry cannot always get their voices heard because of their views. ...
- Random Acts of Poetry - Kingston This Week
Random Acts of PoetryKingston This Week, Canada - 14 hours agoRD Roy, Kingston poet, will be performing "Random Acts of Poetry" in our downtown area from oct 1st to 5th. Everyone who gets "poemed" will recieve a copy ...
- Warp and weft in earthy hues - Express Buzz
Warp and weft in earthy huesExpress Buzz, India - 8 hours agoBRINGING classical music or poetry and painting them together in a jugalbandi, where the artist painted his imagination, inspired by a raga or a verse, ...
- Literary figures pay tributes to Urdu poet Ahmed Faraz - Peninsula On-line
Peninsula On-lineLiterary figures pay tributes to Urdu poet Ahmed FarazPeninsula On-line, Qatar - 7 hours agoFaraz was a classicist like Faiz Ahmed Faiz who, like him, produced poetry of great lyrical beauty. And he had never hesitated to stand up against ...
- Author of youth novels, Eyerly dies at age 100 (The Des Moines Register)
Legend has it that Jeannette Eyerly started writing young adult novels when her daughters remarked that fiction for teenagers was lackluster.
- The 267,854th novel from Joyce Carol Oates - Monsters and Critics
When I think of all the trees that have died to produce Joyce Carol Oates’ myriad numbers of pulpable prose and “poetry†I could cry. My Sister, My Love is basically a fictional recount of the JonBenet Ramsey case. One has to ask, if the girl ...
- The Week In Books: A feast of rich and dark materials (Independent)
Monoculture threatens literature just as much as landscape. If featureless plains of soya beans or oilseed rape can ruin not just the charm but the resilience of an eco-system, then a reading culture built around a narrow band of middle-of-the-road fiction and biography runs the risk of wrecking its fertility. From tutors on creative-writing courses I hear the complaint that their students ...
- Artist of the week no 6: Eva Rothschild (Guardian Unlimited)
When it comes to Eva Rothschild, it is difficult to avoid cliches. Her sculptures are so venomous, all that seedy sex shop leatherette and vinyl just crying out for a good wiping down.
- Literati stunned by death of author - The Columbus Dispatch
David Foster Wallace, left, at a 2006 book-signing in New York NEW YORK -- The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. And ...
- Omagh widower dedicates book to bombing victims - NewsLetter
A MAN who lost three generations of his family in the Omagh bombing has written a book dedicated to their memory to be published near the 10th anniversary of the bomb and what would have been his wife's 75th birthday. Beragh farmer Mick Grimes lost ...
- 'Teza' revisits Ethiopia under Mengistu at Venice filmfest (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Mengistu's blood-drenched Ethiopia was the backdrop in Venice on Tuesday for filmmaker Haile Gerima's "Teza," his attempt to reconcile an idyllic childhood with modern realities.
- A Day of Literature in the Park - Rosyln News
A Day of Literature in the ParkRosyln News, NY - 4 hours ago7, the Christopher Morley Knothole Association will present a "Day of Literature in the Park: Poetry and Prose Picnic." The event will take place from 10:00 ...
- Personal poems and songs could soon be no more - Fermanagh Herald
Fermanagh HeraldPersonal poems and songs could soon be no moreFermanagh Herald, UK - Jul 23, 2008This is not a proper understanding of Christian Burial. The prayers at the graveside recognise the reality of separation but, also the spiritual bond that ...
- Mahmoud Darwish's translator is honoured - guardian.co.uk
Mahmoud Darwish's translator is honouredguardian.co.uk, UK - 19 hours ago... his death, and he was honoured with the equivalent of a state funeral, previously only accorded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Joudah, whose debut poetry ...
- Telling stories of war - Stars and Stripes
Telling stories of warStars and Stripes, DC - 3 hours agoAnd not just the "Marines, who after a couple of beers admit they write poetry. "We have this quote I love, from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson: ‘When a man does not ...
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