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- Memoir tracks the travails of author’s bipolar family (Vail Daily)
It’s not easy writing and selling a memoir about a drug-addled past in the post-James Frey era.
- Cover Stories: Jenny Colgan; Alistair Cooke; Booker longlist (Independent)
* At the first Literary Salon at Shoreditch House, London, on Tuesday, Jenny Colgan revealed that she is working on a "secret book" that she will release under a pseudonym in September. "It's for all those people who loved books set in boarding schools as kids and wonder why nobody writes them any more," she said.
- HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE: A Memoir (Book Reporter)
Aristotle said that "no excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.” And it seems that many of the great and creative minds of history have been, to put it poetically, excellent souls.
- Teachers’ union backs decision to drop poem from syllabus (The Herald)
A leading teachers' union in Scotland has backed a controversial bid to remove a Scottish poem featuring a blade-wielding killer from a school syllabus amid fears over teenage knife crime.
- Day 53: Several degrees better than bathtub gin... - Boston Globe
I'm Adam Sell and I have two months left before I leave Boston. My challenge? Do something in the city every day. Have ideas for my adventure? Send me an email . There are and will be some days throughout this project on which prior commitments make ...
- Darwish painted Palestinian dreams in his poems: translator - Tehran Times
Darwish painted Palestinian dreams in his poems: translatorTehran Times, Iran - 1 hour agoDarwish is the author of thirty books of poetry and six volumes of prose. Over 20 volumes of his works have been translated into Persian. ...
- Enid's poetry is published - Grantham Today
Enid's poetry is publishedGrantham Today, UK - 17 hours agoBy Jo Hall Thursday, 10.55am - TALENTED poet Enid Hewitt, from Londonthorpe, has had six of her poems published in the summer edition of the Lincolnshire ...
- Best of both worlds - The National
Best of both worldsThe National, United Arab Emirates - 1 hour agoAs for me, I have a deep loathing of folk dancing, and tend to fall asleep at poetry readings. Having spent many years in the Middle East, I was enthused by ...
- TODAY'S RUMORS! - allhiphop.com
That’s the song that popped into my head when I heard the following rumor. Somebody reportedly permanently borrowed Juelz’s jewels when the Dipset rapper was over in London. When I say “permanently borrowed,” I mean, I heard that that his ...
- Verse of the Turtle Taking On the Role of Poet Laureate, Kay Ryan ... - Washington Post
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. It was about as personal as a Kay Ryan poem ever gets. Ryan's appointment as the nation's new poet laureate ...
- PAT RICE: Five secrets to a successful Spout Off (Northwest Florida Daily News)
Last week, my friend and colleague Colin Lipnicky took a week of well-deserved vacation.
- Definitive Gonzo (Louisville Courier-Journal)
A lot has been — and will be — written about Hunter S. Thompson, the accidental genius behind Gonzo journalism (drunk, covering the Kentucky Derby for Scanlon's magazine, he mashed his notes into an envelope and the editor published them as they were). With the present volume, only three years after Thompson's suicide, we have what can be called a definitive biography.
- So that’s why they call them snare drums - Columbus Other Paper
So that’s why they call them snare drumsColumbus Other Paper, OH - 15 minutes agoIt was a mellow evening in: I was perusing two history books and a poetry anthology in a round-robin reading event while No Country for Old Men played for ...
- Darwish lives in the hearts of all Palestinians - GulfNews
Darwish lives in the hearts of all PalestiniansGulfNews, United Arab Emirates - Aug 10, 2008In a world full of ignorance and misinformation, Darwish's writing provided an insight into life under siege. He revolutionised free poetry and spoke on ...
- Review: Prolific novelist Ridley Pearson uses Idaho sheriff as ... - Tampabay.com
Review: Prolific novelist Ridley Pearson uses Idaho sheriff as ...Tampabay.com, FL - 13 hours agoThe latest result, Killer View, may not be sheer poetry — Pearson will never turn a phrase with, say, Lawrence Block or Donald Westlake — but it's a good ...
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