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- Landscape, language of Appalachia shape Ron Rash's lyrical fiction (The Tennessean)
Ron Rash's stories may be steeped in the Appalachian Mountains that his family has called home for more than two centuries. His fiction also abounds with violence, dark secrets, vivid characters and Southern vernacular, but don't call it Gothic.
- Dialogue focuses on differences - Joburg
Dialogue focuses on differencesJoburg, South Africa - 15 hours agoThere are two categories - short story and poetry - and entries will be placed in three age groups - 13 to 15 years, 16 to 19 years, and 20 to 25 years. ...
- What a load of crockpots! (Salon.com)
Who doesn't want a Manwich? Sarah Haskins' new video spoofs the advertising world's rosy vision of motherhood.
- GOP slouches toward St. Paul (Jewish World Review)
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Not long ago, you might have foreseen the Republican pilgrimage to St. Paul, Minn., as having all the brio of the Bataan Death March. Surprise!
- Books: with Julie Morgan - Whitehaven News
Whitehaven NewsBooks: with Julie MorganWhitehaven News, UK - 33 minutes agoNATIONAL Poetry Day will be held on Thursday, October 9. The theme for this year is Work, and there will be live poetry reading at the Daniel Hay library on ...
- Love of poetry inspires fellowship - Arizona Daily Wildcat
Love of poetry inspires fellowshipArizona Daily Wildcat, AZ - 20 minutes agoMary Ann Campau was always an avid supporter of local poets and the UA Poetry Center. She even hosted free poetry workshops in her own home up until her ...
- Short Takes (The Charlotte Observer)
POETRY POSTMODERN BOURGEOUS POETASTER BLUES By David Poston. N.C. Writers Network. 23 pages. $10. **** This mouthful of a title by Gastonia's David Poston is winner of the 2007 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition from the N.C. Writers Network. And a deserving winner it is. It seems as if Poston, who teaches at the Highland School of Technology, has stored up an entire ...
- Plouffe Whistles Plus: Obama's failed fight-back - Slate
On the record Time coffee featuring Obama campaign manager David Plouffe: Plouffe argued for paying less attention to the ups and downs of the polls because a) Obama would beat McCain on turnout and b) swing voters would probably break one way or ...
- Used book sale this weekend - Lihue Garden Island
Used book sale this weekendLihue Garden Island, HI - 6 hours ago... foreign language, religion, science, literature, poetry  even video tapes and CDs. Most books are 50 cents per paperback and $1 for hardcovers. ...
- Missoula's old faves make return engagement - The Missoulian
The MissoulianMissoula's old faves make return engagementThe Missoulian, MT - 21 hours agoThe center, which preserves and documents Western culture and most famously sponsors the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, was wondering what ...
- UA Democratic delegates return fired up - Arizona Daily Wildcat
UA Democratic delegates return fired upArizona Daily Wildcat, AZ - 8 hours ago"(The best moment) was really the poetry and maneuvering on Wednesday," Campas said. "Normally the nominee's home state nominates them … and when the voting ...
- How to fly without fear (Independent)
Last week's "terror plunge" to an emergency landing by a Qantas jumbo jet will have done little to soothe the intense fear of flying suffered by one in five of the UK population. Boarding an aeroplane may actually be the safest form of travel, but being stuck in a metal tube, 39,000 feet in the air, can exacerbate so many other phobias: fear of crowds, heights, confined spaces and loss of ...
- From Mr Delivery to yesterday's hero - Cape Argus
The strident clamour of calls for the ANC to axe the "lame-duck" President Thabo Mbeki is far from the epithets the country's leader once enjoyed as the crown prince who became the philosopher king and was hailed as Mr Delivery. As Mbeki's comrades ...
- Tunisia Finest Voices Pay Tribute to Late Saliha - Al Arab Online
They were five women, five roses, a fine bouquet of the sweetest Tunisian voices, they were five on the stage of the greatest festival in the region, but the magic of their talent and art was one, was great and impressive. Rihab Sghair, Shehrazed ...
- Listening to Global Voices - NHPR
listen: No audio currently available. Order on CD (pdf). Our main goal on Word of Mouth is to try to find the stories that you may not get to hear anywhere else – to capture and curate the bits of information that zip around the Internet every day ...
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