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- Literary Rites 2008 - Sunday Times.lk
Literary Rites 2008Sunday Times.lk, Sri Lanka - 1 hour agoHave you ever wondered what writing is all about? How an author weaves from a few ideas and incidents characters, plots and poetry? ...
- In Praise of Vulgarity - Reason.com
Who will ever forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another was abandoned by Taliban soldiers, crowds of happy men lined up to get their first legal shave in ...
- Cowboy Symposium does it up with music, food and more - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
This side of the 1900s you might be hard-pressed to find someone who can masterfully strum a washtub bass. But the Saturday crowd at the 20th annual National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration in Lubbock got a taste of just that, along with numerous ...
- Personal losses sent Sims into nature - Baton Rouge Advocate
Julia Sims has won renown as a nature photographer. She is best known for her images of the Manchac Swamp, near her home in Ponchatoula. Now Pelican Publishing has produced a new collection of photographs by Sims that showcases some of her work from ...
- The poet and his beer - Courier-Post
More than a century after his death, Walt Whitman remains a resounding local figure, well known for his transcendental poetry, his sexuality and his advocacy of humanistic values. What's less familiar to the public is the tremendous amount of time ...
- ‘I will fight virus’ - Sowetan
‘I will fight virus’Sowetan, South Africa - 8 minutes agoHer face lights up when she talks about writing poetry and her achievements at school. “I have this book where I write my thoughts every day. ...
- Navigating life after death - Brisbane Times
SOME years ago four people very close to me died, almost in a row. Writing about it here attracted the attention of a then new grief and bereavement organisation, where I still volunteer. Death is my old friend. Last week we hosted the eighth ...
- Sets, dance and rock'n'roll - guardian.co.uk
Sets, dance and rock'n'rollguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoHarrison says the turning point came last year, when headline band Arcade Fire were playing, and the theatre and poetry tents were still packed. ...
- Lost capital of Khazars could lie here - San Francisco Gate
Sunday, September 28, 2008 Dmitry Vasilyev, a professor at Astrakhan State University, said his nine-year excavation near the Caspian Sea has finally unearthed the foundations of a triangular fortress of flamed brick, along with modest yurt-shaped ...
- With audio books, performer can make stories soar ... or sink - Grand Junction Free Press
With audio books, performer can make stories soar ... or sinkGrand Junction Free Press, Colorado - 28 minutes agoLane, however, makes the dialogue and Du Pre’s musings sound almost like poetry because he not only nails the accent, he gets the rhythm just right. ...
- Nightlife Calendar: 08/15/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Silverback 1, Messyface CD release party for "Back to the Grave," with special guest Vicious Cycle, Aug. 15-16; 8396 S. U.S. 131, Mancelona; 587-8800.
- Hamlet: the stage's greatest challenge - Daily Telegraph
We see our own reflection in successive Hamlets: they're our genetic link with the past and our means of decoding the present. I've directed two productions of the play with four Hamlets: Jonathan Pryce, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Northam and Ian ...
- A story of love and books in Bohemian New Orleans (Seattle Times)
Louise "Gypsy Lou" and Jon Edgar Webb were the force behind Loujon Press, which published works by Kenneth Patchen, Henry Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs and introduced Charles Bukowski to the literary world.
- Ha Jin wants to visit China - Forbes
On a trip that's put him the closest to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books. The 52-year-old National Book Award winner told The Associated Press ...
- Recycling 'Things Too Worthless to Save' - Post-Star
A Kewpie doll skips rope atop a unicorn. A giant monkey and goat overtake a classic European city like Godzilla in Tokyo. An "Our Lady of the Highway" flicker medallion nestles with bottle caps, a disassembled toy gun and flame-shaped light bulbs ...
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