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- "The Pearl": a nobleman defies social conventions (Seattle Times)
"The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia" by Douglas Smith is a love story between the richest nobleman in Imperial Russia and a young serf with a spellbinding operatic voice — the scribbler of a bodice-ripper romance novel could not ask for better stuff.
- Freelancing for Pleasure and Profit - Gather.com
Gather.comFreelancing for Pleasure and ProfitGather.com, MA - 6 hours agoAre writing contests scams? Sadly, some writing contests are in fact scams. Don't ever enter anything sponsored by Poetry.com. They have scammed writers for ...
- Final Friday listings (The Wichita Eagle)
Today Final Friday, gallery crawl, 5-7 p.m., Wichita Center for the Arts, 9112 E. Central (Student-Faculty Exhibition reception); 5-8 p.m. at Larksfield Place Gallery, 7373 E. 29th St. North ("Young Guns," Part II reception); 5-8 p.m. at Kansas African American Museum, 601 N. Water (Pat Patterson/Mitchell Pearson, music by Sterling Gray); 5-8 p.m. at Garden Reflections, 3700 E. ...
- Tuface is not my lover, I don’t even have a boyfriend - Uru Onunaku ... - Punch
Uru Onunaku may not be making as much waves as her younger brother, Ikechukwu, the rap artiste, but she is fast becoming a phenomenon in the US where she resides. Uru, who is rumoured to be dating Tuface Idibia, came to Nigeria recently to launch her ...
- Celebrating the written word - Appalachian State University
Celebrating the written wordAppalachian State University, NC - 12 minutes agoDennis Bohr wrote the play “Dark All Day (and all of the night),” which was performed this spring on campus by Black Sheep Theatre. ...
- Booknotes: New Mexico writer examines unsolved murder (El Paso Times)
NM writer examines unsolved murder - University of New Mexico Press author Paula Moore is scheduled to sign copies of her book "Cricket in the Web" at 2 p.m.
- Revisiting Buffy season 7 - episode 17 - Den Of Geek
Revisiting Buffy season 7 - episode 17Den Of Geek, UK - 1 hour agoAnywa, Spike's reading poetry to his adoring mother, who, judging by the cough, is a consumptive. She asks Spike to spend time with her, and sings the song ...
- Holocaust Remembrance concert builds musical bridges over time (Seattle Times)
Sixty-three years ago this month, horrified Allied troops entered the Nazi concentration camps of Europe and brought to a close one of the...
- US Embassy Sponsors American Writers for Calabash - South Florida Caribbean News
US Embassy Sponsors American Writers for CalabashSouth Florida Caribbean News, FL - 55 minutes agoCornelius Eady is the author of six books of poetry. They include Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of ...
- This week - Times Online
This weekTimes Online, UK - 44 minutes agoThe extent of American influences on his writing – allegedly from Emerson, Poe and Whistler – are examined in a book by Michael Murphy. ...Kleinzahler’s New York makes the London of TS Eliot’s Waste Land ... Times Onlineall 2 news articles
- Family of woman who died after being Tasered sues police - Miami Herald
The family of a schizophrenic woman who died after being shocked by a Taser 10 times during a mental-health crisis is suing the city of Green Springs and two of its police officers in federal court. An autopsy categorizes 56-year-old Emily Delafield ...
- Casting Couch: SVU Switcheroo; Carter's Post-Files Flick; Leo's ... - E! Online
E! OnlineCasting Couch: SVU Switcheroo; Carter's Post-Files Flick; Leo's ...E! Online - 3 hours agoMcManus recently had a recurring role as book editor Lindsey Strauss on the CW's One Tree Hill. On SVU's upcoming 10th season, she'll replace departing ADA ...
- Blogger shocked at winning $67K literary award (WTOP Radio Network)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A 22-year-old English major at Washington College who has used new media to reflect on her experiences with old-fashioned printing won one of the nation's largest undergraduate literary awards on Sunday.
- Japan takes to the ring for poetry boxing (Daily Telegraph)
The jabs are fast and the blows occasionally low, but no-one lays a glove on their rival in the noble Japanese art of Reading Boxing.
- British surrealism's greatest hoard, hidden in retired GP's house - guardian.co.uk
British surrealism's greatest hoard, hidden in retired GP's houseguardian.co.uk, UK - 11 hours ago... Sherwin and his wife, a professional pianist, were publishing Alter Ego & Doppleganger, the radical manifesto of Toni del Renzio, whose wartime poetry ...
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