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- Author, 93, uses profits from first novel to buy massive house to spare friends misery of care home (Daily Mail)
A 93-year-old woman has blown the proceeds of her first book on a large house so she could invite her friends - who are miserable in care homes - to move in with her.
- Del Martin, lesbian activist who became symbol in gay marriage ... - Los Angeles Times
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, has died. She was 87. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center ...
- Richard Harries: In this faithless age, we must be guided by great ... - The Independent
Poetry and novels take us into a world of their own. But the point is, and this is a key feature of both literature and, say, the Bible, is that they illuminate the actual world in which we live. There are forms of writing which do not do this, which ...
- Why protest here - La Crosse Tribune
As I drove down South Avenue this afternoon, I noted a couple of abortion protesters outside Gundersen Lutheran, again. It completely baffles me that people would sit outside to protest “medically necessary” abortions. As far as I know, I can’t ...
- Gregg Barrio's Theater of the Repressed, Recovered, and Revolutionized - San Antonio Current
San Antonio CurrentGregg Barrio's Theater of the Repressed, Recovered, and RevolutionizedSan Antonio Current, tx - 2 hours agoUntil recently, the same was true of Barrios’s other theatrical works, even as his poetry received early recognition with the 1982 publication of his first ...
- A man of many parts - Alexander McCall Smith - Scotsman
A man of many parts - Alexander McCall SmithScotsman, United Kingdom - Jul 21, 2008Most writers, for example, haven't opened an opera house, much less one in the African bush. Yet last month McCall Smith did exactly that, just outside ...
- * Nonfiction. By Donald Hall. Houghton Mifflin, $24. Grade: A- - Rocky Mountain News
* Nonfiction. By Donald Hall. Houghton Mifflin, $24. Grade: A-Rocky Mountain News, CO - 40 minutes agoHall was 26 and had just published his first book of poetry when his father died. The elder Hall - embittered by his own job choices, limited by a family ...
- Best-selling author Oates shifts gears - Canton Repository (subscription)
Best-selling author Oates shifts gearsCanton Repository (subscription), OH - 33 minutes agoThe way to handle broken narrators, perhaps, is to try to find poetry in their plain speech. But Oates has already done that — her "Zombie" is a brilliant ...
- The necessity of art - Petaluma Argus-Courier
The necessity of artPetaluma Argus-Courier, CA - 16 hours agoIn addition, the Petaluma Poetry Walk will be holding an author event beginning at 10 am Sept. 21 in celebration of the arts center opening.
- 'Eureka' Opens at Living Theatre 10/1 - Broadway World
'Eureka' Opens at Living Theatre 10/1Broadway World, NY - 1 hour agoPublished in 1847, the "Prose Poem," as Poe called it, lays out with astonishing forethought what has since come to be called the "Big Bang" theory. ...
- Photos worth a thousand words (London Free Press)
The power and beauty of the photograph have new meaning for me after a visit to Museum London last week. I would have expected Sketches in Black and White, a selection of photographic portraits from the museum's permanent collection to impress, even move deeply.
- Hunting industry courting more females - Charleston Post Courier
Hunting industry courting more femalesCharleston Post Courier, SC - 2 hours agoBy some accounts, female hunters are different than their male counterparts. Unlike most male hunters, for instance, some share poetry with each other. ...
- NAMES AND FACES: Heigl forgiven, but Izzy may suffer (Detroit Free Press)
Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl, 29, withdrew herself from Emmy contention, saying that she didn't feel she was "given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination," but show creator Shonda Rhimes says there are no hard feelings.
- When brown paper wasn’t for parcels - Herald.ie
When brown paper wasn’t for parcelsHerald.ie, Ireland - 8 hours agoNevertheless, he was a fine teacher, even if he seemed to believe that English poetry ended with Matthew Arnold. He hadn't much time for those writers he ...
- Good Morning, Here Is Lovely Poetry [The Written Word] (Gawker)
Good morning friends! I am still in bed (don't get sexy thoughts—at the moment I look like Joe Pesci's mom if she'd just fallen down the stairs) and am exhausted from my astute late night political...
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