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- Debut novel shortlisted for Montana - Stuff.co.nz
Debut novel shortlisted for MontanaStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Jun 9, 2008The winner of each category receives $5000, and the Montana medal for non-fiction and the Montana medal for poetry or fiction have prizes of $10000 each. ...
- Literary award winners in Wells (York County Coast Star)
WELLS — On May 1, the Wells-Ogunquit Community School District held the 2008 Literary Achievement Awards ceremony in the Olenn Auditorium at Wells High School.
- NEA Awards 'Big Read' Grants - Daily Herald
LOS ANGELES -- The National Endowment for the Arts announced Monday that more than 200 organizations nationwide will receive grants totaling $2.8 million to host "The Big Read," an initiative meant to restore book reading in American culture. In 2004 ...
- In Neruda’s Chile, good education eludes masses - Thaindian.com
Thaindian.comIn Neruda’s Chile, good education eludes massesThaindian.com, Thailand - 5 hours agoThe government’s scheme for 400000 families envisages a ‘maletin literario’ or box of up to nine books each that includes poetry and fiction apart from an ...
- Saturday, July 19, 2008 (Fort Worth Weekly)
Granbury Live The Beat Goes On. Revue of 1960s Motown and doo-wop songs. Thru Jul 19. 114 N Crockett St, Granbury. $20. 800-989-8240.
- Shuffling Through Memories: B.S. Johnson's 'The Unfortunates' - New York Sun
Samuel Beckett is often called a terminus in Anglo-Irish literature. He took modernism's radical approach as far as it would go; it is as though Jackson Pollock was succeeded by portraitists and landscape artists. B.S. Johnson (1933-73) did not get ...
- Hard Corps (Washington City Paper)
“Anybody know what clichés are?†I ask the class, searching the sea of faces for a hint of recognition. “Yeah,†responds a lanky, dark-skinned girl. “Ain’t that like when you say something but a lot of people done already said it, like ‘cry like a baby’ or ‘dumb as a doorknob.’â€
- Warehouse Theatre keeps stage occupied (The Greenville News)
At Warehouse Theatre, Paul Savas is facing his first full season with the 2008-2009 productions. He began his artistic and executive director duties in May 2007.
- Eco-Friendly Books Explore The Literary Green (NPR)
Reading words printed on dead trees doesn't automatically translate into saving the planet. But by encouraging us to reevaluate the world around us, these three books offer a vision of a different path forward.
- Obituaries June 24, 2008 (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
James C. Thornton WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. - James C. Thornton, 28, died Friday, June 20, 2008, at his home. He was born Jan. 2, 1980, in West Memphis, Ark. He was a Baptist.
- Anime Review—Sword of the Stranger - Firefox News
Anime Review—Sword of the StrangerFirefox News, AZ - 8 hours agoBy Peter Gutiérrez Over the past fifteen years, Peter's work in horror and other genres, in the form of short fiction, poetry, criticism, and comics, ...
- Weird and wacky museums - News.com.au
Their weird and wacky displays capture the imagination of travellers who have tired of prehistoric remains, fossils, ancient artwork, historic diamonds and what not. Adjust your itinerary to check out these museums with a definite taste for the ...
- Oswego’s Festival of the Arts to premiere in August (The Palladium-Times)
The city of Oswego will be celebrating its first Festival of the Arts Aug. 9 and 10. The festival is to be held at Fort Ontario Park in Oswego. The event, which is part of the statewide “Canal Splash†celebration, will offer visual arts, poetry, theater, music and dance. Â
- Website Will Help Victims Track Offenders (R News)
A new web site is helping victims of crime track down what's happened to their offenders coming up for parole. The new web site link, managed by the New York State Division of Parole, lets users look up parole board determinations over the past two years.
- Writers recommend the perfect literary travelling companions (Guardian Unlimited)
Take Alexandre Dumas to Paris, read Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil, pack Michael Dibdin for Sicily - wherever you are going on holiday this summer, writers recommend the perfect literary travelling companions
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