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- Mom and dad's lives -- real and imagined (Miami Herald)
ALFRED & EMILY. Doris Lessing. Harper. 274 pages. $25.95. Last year, Doris Lessing, almost 88 and the outspoken, iconoclastic author of more than 50 books -- novels, story collections, poetry and nonfiction -- became the oldest writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. This year, she has published a clever, moving coupling of fiction and nonfiction. Alfred & Emily is a culmination of ...
- Fall Arts Preview: November (San Francisco Chronicle)
THEATER Rita Moreno: A showbiz legend, Tony, Oscar, Emmy and Grammy winner Rita Moreno makes her Rrazz Room debut with "Little Tributes," a new musical revue of old standards, forgotten chestnuts and new works. Nov. 4-23. Rrazz Room, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason...
- Shuffling Through Memories: B.S. Johnson's 'The Unfortunates' (The New York Sun)
Samuel Beckett is often called a terminus in Anglo-Irish literature. He took modernism's radical approach as far as it would go; it is as though Jackson Pollock was succeeded by portraitists and landscape artists. B.S. Johnson (1933-73) did not get the memo. In 1961, while shopping his first book to agents, Johnson compared it favorably to "Ulysses," and declared himself in the tradition of ...
- Palestinians say farewell to poet - Focus News
Palestinians say farewell to poetFocus News, Bulgaria - Aug 13, 2008Thousands of black-clad mourners lined the streets of Ramallah - many clutching portraits of the poet and Palestinian flags. A military convoy took the ...
- City art show celebrates carers’ talents - Liverpool Daily Post
City art show celebrates carers’ talentsLiverpool Daily Post, UK - 1 hour agoThe art, craft and poetry competition celebrates the diverse caring community in Liverpool and was open to unpaid carers in four categories – 11 and under, ...
- Huckleberries’ allure is all in the chase - Missoulian
Ripening wild huckleberries explode all over the mountains of western Montana in late summer. Photo by ROB CHANEY/Missoulian This is going to sound stuffy, but when sitting in a huckleberry patch high above Marshall Canyon, thoughts turn to ...
- Obituaries for August 3 - HometownAnnapolis.com
William Thomas "Bill" Herndon, 57, of Virginia and formerly of Annapolis, died of Pick's disease July 10 at the Gardens of Fair Oaks in Fairfax, Va., after a long illness. Mr. Herndon was born July 8, 1951, in South Charleston, W.V., to the late ...
- Should You Be Allowed to Buy Plastic Fish Brake Lights? - New York Times Blogs
I am a firm believer in consumer choice — an individual’s utility and society’s economic welfare are maximized if people are free to buy whatever they want (so long as others are not forced to sell it to them). Nonetheless, an amazing number of ...
- Out and about - Eagle-Tribune
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Elvis Week, the annual Elvis celebration at the late superstar's home in Graceland, is scheduled to get underway on Aug. 9. The nine-day event will feature several new activities and entertainment, including "Elvis, From Broadway ...
- On the fringe of Latitude - Daily Telegraph Blogs
If you are reading this to learn what Franz Ferdinand were like last night, don't bother. By the time I had got out of London, taken the wrong road and landed up in Felixstowe, and found that the 10,000 wheelbarrows (advertised on the website as ...
- Arts festival to highlight local seniors (Examiner)
The Strand Theater, 400 Clifton Avenue, Lakewood, will host the second annual Festival of Senior Arts from June 24-26 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. The festival is a fine arts and entertainment extravaganza highlighting the spirit, talent and vitality of senior artists from the central New Jersey region.
- First work (The Telegraph)
Michael Down, 24, has loved poetry since he first got interested in it at age 15 - the same age he began writing poetry. "Once I fell in love with poetry, I immediately began writing my own, and hope one day to become a well-known writer," Down said.
- MSPSBS students try their hands in poetry writing - Borneo Bulletin
Borneo BulletinMSPSBS students try their hands in poetry writingBorneo Bulletin, Brunei Darussalam - 1 hour agoThe poem that stood out the most, and referred to as this year's Best Piece Award, was entitled 'Senses', penned by Nur Afiqah Arifin from MB1Y. ...
- Fans flock to Disney's Club Penguin Times - Los Angeles Times
The newspaper industry is constantly bewailing its need for a new economic model, as the Internet upends the old one. Maybe it could take a page from the Club Penguin Times. The Club Penguin Times, after all, is more widely read than New York's Daily ...
- EAST BERLIN: Local poet wins award (York Daily Record)
East Berlin resident Kay Gingrich recently received an award for outstanding achievement in poetry by the International Society of Poets for her poem "Thank God I'm OK" subtitled "The Pious Ramblings of a Good Church Goer, Miss Gossip.
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