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- Who Is the Donna Reed of This Election? - Slate
It's no secret that Slate has actively cultivated a reputation for contrarianism . Our headline piece over the weekend, in which Jack Shafer took down the clichés of Slate 's "green journalism," raises our institutional antagonism to Whitmanesque ...
- Mysteries (Washington Post)
There's a lot of foreboding in Thomas H. Cook's new novel. Some afterboding, too: Parts of the story are told in flashbacks.
- Jeanette (Yox) Helmbrecht - Jamestown Post Journal
Jeanette (Yox) HelmbrechtJamestown Post Journal, NY - 10 hours agoShe was a distinguished poet and member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and the Illinois State Poetry Society. She considered herself a social activist ...
- Hotline: Poetic Escape drawing an eclectic mix (Boston Herald)
A local poetry and art social mixer is about to get shaken up. The monthly Poetic Escape night, held the last Wednesday of each month at Blue Wave on Congress Street,...
- Report: Taliban media network projects power, but also exposes militant weaknesses (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Using everything from Internet postings to poetry, the Taliban have created a sophisticated media network that undermines support for the Afghan government by projecting the militia's power as greater than it really is, a new report says.
- We must not lose great masterpieces - Buffalo News
We must not lose great masterpiecesBuffalo News, United States - 2 hours agoEmily Dickinson published less than a dozen poems in her lifetime; what if her family had simply thrown the rest out after her death? ...
- Fifth-grader wins bicycle essay contest (Daily Herald)
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White awarded Grant Miller, a fifth-grader from Windsor School in Arlington Heights, the third place award in the Bicycle Essay Contest held in honor of National Bicycle Safety Monty in May.
- Journal Pages: Evolving with the spirit of Updike - Gloucester Daily Times
Journal Pages: Evolving with the spirit of UpdikeGloucester Daily Times, USA - 52 minutes agoNo humidity in the air would be good, too, and life's drudgery held back from view as if by a great sun visor. The radio is not yet turned on, ...
- Glastonbury Festival tickets now available without a registration ... - eFestivals.co.uk
Glastonbury Festival tickets now available without a registration ...eFestivals.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoAs well as being available to buy online, Glastonbury Festival tickets, are also available to buy in HMV and at the Bristol Ticket Shop, The Mall Galleries, ...
- The Hakawati, by Rabih Alameddine (Independent)
Despite Naguib Mahfouz's Nobel Prize, there has been much discussion as to whether the novel is an appropriate form of Arab expression. While love and adventure abound in Middle Eastern storytelling and poetry, few portrayals of hothouse family life exist. The tour de force of Rabih Alameddine's novel The Hakawati ("storyteller" in Arabic) is that it moves effortlessly between the classic ...
- Love's labor’s lost in post-invasion Iraq - Middle East Online
Middle East OnlineLove's labor’s lost in post-invasion IraqMiddle East Online, UK - 3 hours ago"The country of the Arabian Nights and of wonderful poetry is no longer good for love," Maki al-Nazzal, political analyst and poet, told IPS. ...
- Anita Heiss puts Koori slant on Sex and the City - News.com.au
Aspiring to be a black version of the Sex And The City supremo is something Heiss , the granddaughter of a member of the stolen generation and daughter of an Austrian immigrant, readily admits to. "I want to be Carrie Bradshaw - I want to be on the ...
- Big day for small book publishers (Scarborough Mirror)
"It's a real cool thing for us to be part of," said Liisa Ladouceur, one of the many small publishers - and authors - who will be on hand this Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. at the Toronto Small Press Book Fair being held at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, 750 Spadina Ave.
- Encounters at the End of the World - DVD Talk
Encounters at the End of the WorldDVD Talk, OR - 2 hours agoThat's right, Werner Herzog is back with his latest non-fiction endeavor, proving again that it's not actually naturalistic poetry until it's been touched ...
- Vandals who trashed Robert Frost's home take poetry classes as penance - Pioneer Press
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The ...
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