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- Literature in the leaves - The National
Literature in the leavesThe National, United Arab Emirates - 18 hours agoBroad topics open to the public include a talk titled A Traitor in the House: Autobiography and Fiction, organised by the South African novelist Lynn Freed, ...
- Hendrix's burnt guitar leads rock auction in London - MSN Philippines News
The first guitar that rock legend Jimi Hendrix burned on stage, the only remaining fingerprints of Elvis Presley and the first contract signed by The Beatles all go on sale Thursday in a major auction of music memorabilia. Jim Morrison's last ...
- Hyderabad observes 100 years of great Musi floods - Thaindian.com
Hyderabad observes 100 years of great Musi floodsThaindian.com, Thailand - 22 hours agoPoems in Urdu, Telugu and English describing the death and destruction caused by the floods were read out at a gathering under the dense shadow of the tall ...
- From two-cent stamps to MLB.TV - Major League Baseball
Let's talk about how the world has, well, evolved, while the Yankees were busy winning 26 World Series titles in the past 85 years. In 1923, Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patented the iconoscope, a transmission tube that eventually led to television. In ...
- Baring their souls - Guardian Unlimited
Fifteen years ago the music world was turned upside down with the release of Liz Phair's album, Exile in Guyville. Written in response to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street (both were double albums, 18 tracks long), it matched that record in ...
- art September 2 - 7 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 2nd floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: (The Telegraph)
Entourage de Color , a show by young contemporaries Somit Gupta, Nobina Gupta, Saumik, Piyali, Santanu, Jayshree, Ritabrata and Pradeep. Inauguration today at 6 pm.
- New children's book captures sisters' special bond (Gazette.Net)
Germantown resident Tamika Jackson works as a professional photographer when she's not at her day job at a biotech company. She caught her nieces Lainey and Lauren Brooks on camera one day in a loving embrace, and the idea for her new book "Sisters Are from Heaven" was born.
- James Crumley; inspired generation of crime writers; 68 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
James Crumley, 68, whose poetic and violent tales of crime in the American West made him a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel, died of complications from kidney and pulmonary diseases Sept. 16 at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Mont., where he lived.
- Calendar of events - Billings Outpost
Calendar of eventsBillings Outpost, MT - Jul 26, 2008Mr. Oberst has been compared to Bob Dylan – the curse of all young artists – and his work includes unpublished poetry and short stories. ...
- A Unique Exhibition in Tehran by Artist Bita Ghezelayagh - Payvand
PayvandA Unique Exhibition in Tehran by Artist Bita GhezelayaghPayvand, Iran - Aug 6, 2008She wanted to show the embroiders art and all her felts have a line of poetry sewn on the front or a sign that the tribes use. She told me that she has been ...
- Black & white - Deccan Herald
Black & whiteDeccan Herald, India - 14 hours agoA synopsis of the book is also given in English for those who are challenged to read and understand Kannada poetry. Bhagawatha Purana is the most famous and ...
- New Director, Operation At Historic Latimer House (Queens Chronicle)
Vivian Warfield is the new director of the Lewis Latimer House in Flushing. She promises more accessibility to the facility. (photo by Michael O’Kane)
- What's Your Favorite Kid Lit of 2008? - Mediabistro.com
Receive mediabistro.com's Daily GalleyCat Feed via email Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Media Newsfeed via email. Dover Publications is looking for a Trade Marketing Manager . See the next featured job . Hachette Book Group is looking ...
- Free Friday Flicks: Lost in translation - Duxbury Clipper
Free Friday Flicks: Lost in translationDuxbury Clipper, MA - 4 hours agoOne of my poetry teachers once said—in a formulation supposedly first used by the Israeli poet Chaim Nachman Bialik—that reading poetry in translation is ...
- The great train-track robbery - The Herald
The great train-track robberyThe Herald, UK - 19 hours agoIn the popular imagination, Beeching endures as the soulless axe-man who callously ended the golden age of rail travel and needlessly diminished the poetry ...
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