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- Book Review: "Marrying Anita" explores love in the "new India" - San Jose Mercury News
Frustrated with the singles scene in New York, already in her thirties with no fiancée in sight, under constant pressure from her parents to find someone, Anita Jain takes action. After announcing in a New York magazine article her intention to try ...
- Blood sport - Abington Mariner
        You can say what you want about the Tabanus Nigrovittatus, which, for a short but brutal three-week period rules the salt marshes from Gloucester to Newburyport, but chances are that it won’t be complimentary because, face it ...
- Should Pete Doherty Be Banned? - Entertainment.uk.msn.com
As police intervene to stop Babyshambles from playing at a festival in Wiltshire, should Pete Doherty be stopped from playing live gigs? Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse like a drink together, but they’re more than just drinking buddies. They ...
- Top poet aims for brevity, ephemeral substance (Seattle Times)
More than a decade and a half ago, despairing that her poems would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing one about a turtle...
- Send to Friend (Cape May County Herald)
The Cape May County Library is looking for new participants for the Great Books Reading and Discussion Group. Great Books has been meeting at the Main Library for more than 15 years.
- Haiku Writers Know … - New York Times Blogs
Haiku Writers Know …New York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Felix Dennis in interview: 'Drunks talk trash, don't they?' (Guardian Unlimited)
The last time publisher Felix Dennis gave an interview, he said he killed someone. How do you top that? With a national poetry tour - and a lot of free wine. By William Leith
- Canadian's first novel brings a $1.25-million advance - Daily Gleaner
Canadian's first novel brings a $1.25-million advanceDaily Gleaner, Canada - 1 hour agoHe has been writing seriously since age 16, penning screenplays, stage plays, short stories and poetry. Prior to The Gargoyle, a few of his poems had been ...
- Emily Dickinson's Secret Lover! - Slate
We tend to reserve special roles for our favorite writers—sepulchral Poe; sardonic Mark Twain; sexy, world-embracing Walt Whitman—and resist evidence that contradicts our cherished images. Emily Dickinson in this constellation is forever the ...
- Foo Fighters rock out in concert, at least as long as bandleader Dave ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dave Grohl needed a gag order. Don't get me wrong: His band, Foo Fighters , rocked with aplomb over the course of a 2 1/2-hour performance Friday night at The Q. Unfortunately, grunge survivor Grohl (a Warren, Ohio, native) felt compelled to ramble ...
- Taking a bite of Dylan's Big Apple (BBC News)
Joining Dylan Thomas's daughter Aeronwy on a tour of the poet's old New York haunts.
- Theater puts Sandburg's poetry in motion - Peoria Journal Star
Theater puts Sandburg's poetry in motionPeoria Journal Star, IL - 8 minutes agoHudson and Libman have collaborated on other projects in addition to "Dust and Dreams," including "Muskie Love," which has just wrapped up a run at the ...
- Pioneering lesbian rights activist dies just weeks after wedding - Independent
Washington PostPioneering lesbian rights activist dies just weeks after weddingIndependent, UK - 1 hour ago... of eight women who in 1956 founded Daughters of Bilitis, America's first lesbian rights group, named after a 19th-century book of lesbian love poetry. ...First lesbian to be married in San Francisco dies aged 87 Telegraph.co.ukDel Martin, 87, pioneering lesbian activist San Jose Mercury NewsLesbian rights pioneer Del Martin dies at 87 San Francisco ChronicleGay.com - CBS 5all 343 news articles
- What did I learn at uni? Sorrry, it's all a bit of a blur - Times Online
What did I learn at uni? Sorrry, it's all a bit of a blurTimes Online, UK - 36 minutes ago“Does John Milton infuse new significance into the concept of 'history' in his poetry?” It doesn't matter. “Would you agree that for Alexander Pope, ...
- Don Henley: A pretty fly guy - Independent
Share Midway through the first CD of The Eagles' new double album, Long Road out of Eden, there's a fabulous Don Henley / Steuart Smith ballad called "Waiting in the Weeds". Like Henley's 1985 solo hit, "The Boys of Summer", it tackles themes of ...
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