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- Newsstand Junkie: Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo still together (New York Daily News)
There are two big stories in the mags this week. First, despite weeks of reports to the contrary, Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo are doing fine. (Cue sigh of relief from John Mayer.)
- Need a Dickens expert? He's the man - Mankato Free Press
It started years ago as a nudge from mom to read a book by Charles Dickens. Today, he’s known as a guy who literally wrote the book on Dickens. Several, actually. And today Rob Hanna, an English professor at Bethany Lutheran College, is a go-to guy ...
- Ferguson's a man of many words - Tonight
Ferguson's a man of many wordsTonight, South Africa - 2 hours ago... writing programmes. Inverse proportion goes like so: as readers dwindle, poets grow. What are some of the challenges that come with publishing poetry? ...
- Amiri Baraka to kick off spoken word education institute - UW Madison
Amiri Baraka, the award-winning incendiary poet, playwright and founder of the Black Arts Movement, will give a special reading at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday, July 7, to open the third annual Spoken Word & Hip-Hop Educator's ...
- New second in command is ISU's highest-ranked woman ever - Pantagraph
NEW 11:45 a.m. NORMAL -- As Illinois State University’s new provost Sheri Noren Everts settles in to the job, she becomes the highest-ranked female administrator in the university’s history. She officially started July 1. The provost and vice ...
- Charles Williams, the odd Inkling - Times Online
Charles Williams, the odd InklingTimes Online, UK - 10 minutes agoGeoffrey Hill has recently stressed the energy and intelligence of Williams’s work on the history of English poetry. Theologians continue to circle round ...
- Television movies for the week of Aug. 10 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Television movies for the week of Aug. 10Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 33 minutes agoFriends try to thwart a weaselly heir to a resort who plans on selling the operation to a cowboy. (PG-13) (2:00) COMEDY: Sat. 3:30 PM (CC) • Outcast of the ...
- Poems about the BBC: it's your chance to rhyme! - Guardian Blogs
The good people of BBC Radio 4 has commissioned Wendy Cope to write a series of verses about the BBC and changing listener attitudes towards it. So it's time to get your rhyming dictionary out - now it's your turn. Yes, we want your odes to the Big ...
- 'Footprints' author tiff steps into court - DetNews.com
'Footprints' author tiff steps into courtDetNews.com, MI - 52 minutes agoLast fall, in an online article for the Poetry Foundation, a Brooklyn journalist and literary sleuth named Rachel Aviv traced elements of "Footprints" to a ...
- Man 'a plagiarist, not a terrorist' (Adelaide Now)
A MAN accused of producing a book promoting jihad terrorist acts copied it "word for word" from a website, a court has been told.
- Mitchell’s Cahnah party will raise money for Nahant Education Foundation Aug. 31 (The Daily Item)
NAHANT - It’s an adults-only party, but it’s all about the kids. The fifth annual “Mitchell’s Cahnah” Block Party will raise money for the Nahant Education Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that raises money for the schools.
- Silly fun with teens in 'Emo! The Musical' (The San Francisco Examiner)
Teen angst - it happens to the best of us. Take a second to reflect upon those melodramatic years and recall the disaffected youth you most identified with: Were you the misunderstood artiste, the perpetually stoned slacker or perhaps the sad-sack scribe of seriously bad poetry?
- Meet Son of Nun - Dissident Voice
Meet Son of NunDissident Voice, CA - 2 hours agoI used to write poetry. That’s how I came into it. Basically, a friend of mine was in a band and he was like “hey we’re practicing. ...
- Judging the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008 - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukJudging the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 5 hours agoOrlando Figes's The Whisperers draws on letters, memoirs and conversations to depict personal life in Stalin's Russia. Hannah Rothschild said: "It's a book ...
- Booklovers Read and Relax at Bed and Breakfasts from Oregon to DC - 3x24 - Your Newspaper and News Magazine
Booklovers Read and Relax at Bed and Breakfasts from Oregon to DC3x24 - Your Newspaper and News Magazine, Germany - 8 hours agoOther guest suites are named for literary themes: Romance, Modern Classics, Inspiration, Poetry and the Writer’s Suite. Sylvia Beach Hotel, named not for a ...
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