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- 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 ...
- Great White Way stretches from New York all the way to Minnesota (Pioneer Press)
There are local connections aplenty in the Tony Award nominations announced this week. Tenuous connections, but connections nonetheless.
- Rhythm in His Hips, Technology on His Mind (New York Times)
Gilberto Gil?s set at the Nokia Theater on Tuesday was a deep fusion of pop and folk culture: he used lots of variations on samba and baiĂŁo, two root elements of Brazilian popular music.
- 'Give poetry a chance,' laureate says - Delaware Online
A poem can be a lonely, silent thing. But when it's ready, said JoAnn Balingit, Delaware's 16th and latest poet laureate, "It has to be witnessed, because you want to communicate it." And if there's one thing a poet laureate wants to do, it's tell ...
- Difficult Truths - New York Times
Difficult TruthsNew York Times, United States - 1 hour agoMoore, who has written three books of poetry and “The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter,” divides her memoir ...
- The Word Was With God, And The Word Was God (Seattlest)
Old books from a Swiss library. Not illuminated, but beautifully bound and quite elderly! The first Bible we ever owned was an illustrated children's version, with line drawings of plump prophets and disciples on every page and succinctly retold "highlights" of Scriptural stories. That was our introduction to the idea of a holy text with interesting pictures alongside, and since then ...
- Photonality Jazz Series Publishes a New Book to the Series "Breakin' Glass" with Oliver Lake (All About Jazz)
Breakin' Glass with Olive Lake expands on the vocabulary of Photonality(a visual music composition) adding the spoken word poetry of Oliver Lake. This visual music composition integrates the properties of photography with the music and spoken word poetry of Oliver Lake to create a visual dimension of tone and rhythm.
- Long Lake man has poem honored (Mesabi Daily News)
EVELETH — Shag rugs, stuffed animals and poetry — what do they have in common? Clayton Fink. You must be a Registered User to view the rest of the story.
- Set sail with seafaring tales (TCPalm.com)
With “The Gigantic Book of Sailing Stories” you can relive some of the greatest literary moments in history, including hunting for buried treasure, discovering new lands and participating in epic battles.
- Lesbos Island once more, with feeling - Sophia Echo
To be or not to be called a “lesbian?” These days, this is the question that galvanises residents of the famous Greek island Lesbos, who campaign against the term being used to refer to gay women. The issue was taken to court by three Lesbos ...
- Retreats offered at Sinsinawa Mound - East Dubuque Register
Retreats offered at Sinsinawa MoundEast Dubuque Register, IL - 2 hours agoAt the "Poetry and Spiritual Landscapes" retreat at Sinsinawa Mound July 11-13, we will consider ways of entering a poem and will allow poets, old and new, ...
- Looking back at the Booker: JM Coetzee - Guardian Blogs
The book that won JM Coetzee his second Booker prize is, according to Time magazine: "A subtly brilliant commentary on the nature and balance of power in his homeland...Disgrace is a mini-opera without music by a writer at the top of his form." OK ...
- 'Exiles' plumbs the depths of obsession - Charlotte Observer
'Exiles' plumbs the depths of obsessionCharlotte Observer, NC - 8 hours agoBy Aaron Gwyn His novels include “Atticus,” a finalist for the National Book Award, and “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” which ...
- Religion Calendar: 05/17/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Religion Calendar: 05/17/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 40 minutes agoFriendship Program, 7 pm Tues., to help developmentally disabled adults understand Christian faith, Fellowship Church, 2555 Garfield Road, TC; ...
- Millions mark World Refugee Day with theme of "Protection" - Reuters AlertNet
Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone. GENEVA, June 20 (UNHCR) – As millions of people marked World Refugee Day across the world on ...
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