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- Gallery owner closes shop - Daily Local News
WEST CHESTER — The business of selling art has its highlights and its shadows. It can be exciting but also challenging — especially when it comes to enticing discretionary spending in a down economy. Ben Gall found that out twice. In 2005, he ...
- Zobel’s ‘Noche Clara’ goes for P6M at Christie’s (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - At the Christie’s auction of Southeast Asian Modern & Contemporary Art held in Hong Kong last Saturday, a 1960 work by the late modernist artist Fernando Zobel was the most expensive Philippine artwork sold at P6 million.
- Cover Stories: strong debuts on prize list; the Bhutto perspective; Linley deal; Doyle's farewell (Independent)
* Good to see that "sparkling new fiction" doesn't necessarily equal chicklit and beach reads. The shortlist for the first Desmond Elliott Prize, announced this week, highlights some strong debuts: there's Sunday at the Cross Bones by John Walsh of this parish (Fourth Estate); Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking); and Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster). The 1/2 favourite, it is set in ...
- Milking History: 'Amalia's Tale' by David I. Kertzer (The New York Sun)
'Nothing is so dangerous to its surroundings as a syphilitic infant." So wrote Alfred Fournier, a prominent French doctor whose exaggeration, back in the late 19th century, would be hard to blame. In southwestern France, a contaminated newborn had recently infected his unsuspecting wet nurse, and when she fell ill her neighbors, equally unwary, took her place in between nursing their own ...
- Pruning vines and verses - Financial Times
Pruning and generally cutting back vegetation is not my natural thing. Unlike my father, who has waged grim war with invasive weeds, ivy and old man’s beard, I have a weakness for letting nature take its course. Just now I am admiring the amazing ...
- Library News: Sawyer Free offers business research - Wicked Local Gloucester
Library News: Sawyer Free offers business researchWicked Local Gloucester, MA - 17 hours agoIn celebration of National Poetry Month, the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library invite all students living in Gloucester to participate in “Poetry ...
- Lisa Firer: Ceramics designer - The Times
Lisa Firer: Ceramics designerThe Times, South Africa - 10 hours agoThe porcelain tea-light holders with sacred poetry. Temenos Retreat Centre in McGregor, about two hours outside of Cape Town. I love the indigenous gardens ...
- MP3: Sweet Trip Covers James Joyce - Wired News
MP3: Sweet Trip Covers James JoyceWired News - 6 hours agoJames Joyce wished that someone would eventually make music out of his Chamber Music (.txt) collection of poetry. Over one hundred years after they were ...
- Review: Reading the Bible as literature - Daily Sentinel
Leland Ryken & Philip Ryken, eds. (Crossway, 2016pgs, $50h) My conservative religious training taught me to view the Bible, especially the narrative parts, as history; inspired to be sure, but history, all the same. Period. So, when people would use ...
- Poetry, concert set for Sunday in Norman (The Oklahoman)
NORMAN — The Performing Arts Studio will host a poetry reading and a Summer Breeze concert Sunday.
- Reader vents using poetry - Arizona Republic
Reader vents using poetryArizona Republic, AZ - 11 hours agoThe abandoned high-rise hotel next to Chandler Fashion Center has been a black eye on the city since work stopped two years ago. We can't make it go away, ...
- Happy in his world of words (Deccan Herald)
Lyricist Javed Akhtar needs no introduction. Sreya Basu caught up with the man behind many immortal Hindi songs during his visit to Kolkata for Indian Idol 4 auditions.
- Laura Berman: Mayoral affair is a classic tale of adultery (Detroit News)
She would do anything for the mayor's love and approval, casting aside her marriage, meeting in hotels, hinting at her need for an end to the secrecy of their affair. He would say what he needed to say, just to keep her going.
- Saying goodbye - Sri Lanka Sunday Times
Saying good bye is not one of my favourite things. It's one of those things that brings a lump to my throat and make me want to cry and this after having had to endure so many goodbyes to family members and friends, over the years. Given the nomadic ...
- Interview: Sherman Alexie (Guardian Unlimited)
Sherman Alexie grew up on an Indian reservation and went on to become a bestselling novelist, comic and screenwriter. He hopes to produce 'the great American Indian novel'
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