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- Thomas M. Disch | 1940-2008: Catastrophes blamed for author's suicide (The Columbus Dispatch)
NEW YORK -- Author, poet and critic Thomas M. Disch -- who twisted the inherently twisted genre of science fiction in disturbing directions, including writing his last book in the voice of God -- died Friday in his Manhattan apartment. He was 68.
- Kane County talent contest winners named (The Courier News)
Winners of this year's Kane County Fair and Festival Talent Contest included a duet and an opera singer.
- Clarke County Notebook - Clarke Times Courier
Clarke County NotebookClarke Times Courier, VA - 1 hour agoTo enter, send one poem of 21 lines or less to: Free Poetry Contest, 7308 Heritage Dr., Mt. Vernon, IN 47620. Enter online at www.freecontest.com. ...
- Utah Marquee: Readings - Salt Lake Tribune
Utah Marquee: ReadingsSalt Lake Tribune, United States - 38 minutes ago... Wednesday, 7 pm; 801-521-3819; www.kensanders books.com. UTAH STATE POET LAUREATE KATHARINE COLES will read from and sign her new poetry collection, ...
- Unofficial greeter - Daily Independent
HUNTINGTON — Traffic flows slow and heavy along Spring Valley Drive’s long curves that hug the mountainside and follow the creek. Many of the cars are heading to the VA Medical Center. Others to Spring Valley High School and some are local ...
- Blood Wedding stabs at the heart of tragedy - Metro
MetroBlood Wedding stabs at the heart of tragedyMetro, UK - 11 hours agoThe additional cast clunk badly and hammily on occasion, and the excessive music dolefully drowns out the poetry. But as dusk lowers over the Thames, ...
- A century of puzzling - Nature.com (subscription)
Nature.com (subscription)A century of puzzlingNature.com (subscription), UK - 8 hours agoInterpretations range from astronomical calendars and bronze-age computers through board games to a victory chant and pre-homeric poetry, written in ...
- Family Online: Let's put on a show! - Advocate Weekly
Family Online: Let's put on a show!Advocate Weekly, MA - 1 hour agoThen there's Arts Alive from Canada, which has a guide to the poetry of Shakespeare's writing, as well as general information on how scripts are created, ...
- Readers' favorite neighborhood joints - San Francisco Chronicle
Readers' favorite neighborhood jointsSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 12 hours agoHere's a selection: "We have a new Italian restaurant in the Castro called Poesia Osteria Italiana and Poetry Lounge. It has definitely become a local ...
- OnMilwaukee.com Weekend Preview: July 25-27 (OnMilwaukee.com)
This weekend, it's Brewers, Bradford Beach Jam, Gallery Night and Day, The Police, German Fest, Armenian Fest, Brady Street Festival, the Great Downer Avenue Bike Race, Washington County Fair and more.
- Pioneering lesbian rights activist dies just weeks after wedding (Independent)
Del Martin, the pioneering lesbian rights activist whose career spanned more than five decades, and who twice took part in California's “first” gay marriage, has died at the age of 87.
- Old Port Town’s Appeal Reaches Beyond Northwest - New York Times
New York TimesOld Port Town’s Appeal Reaches Beyond NorthwestNew York Times, United States - 11 hours agoPort Townsend is also home to Copper Canyon Press, considered one of the country’s best publishers of poetry, and its writers include WS Merwin, ...
- A lesson from history - GulfNews
A lesson from historyGulfNews, United Arab Emirates - 9 hours agoSchool boys would wear traditional dress with a black waistcoat and would recite Arabic poetry in the school's courtyard as part of the morning assembly. ...
- Literary Happenings: Magazine is a time capsule of 1992 book news (Ventura County Star)
A friend and I, while cleaning out her office, uncovered a July 20, 1992, issue of Publishers Weekly. The cover story highlighted fall children's books. Other articles reported on the growing industry of book-movie tie-ins ("Patriot Games" by Tom Clancy was hot); tips for hosting school book fairs; American booksellers that provided low-interest loans to struggling, locally owned bookshops in ...
- Hugh Muir's diary (Guardian Unlimited)
Hugh Muir: Some things are non-negotiable. David Cameron will have no truck with ID cards
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