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- How the Chinese Communists destroyed ancient Beijing - Times Online
How the Chinese Communists destroyed ancient BeijingTimes Online, UK - 31 minutes agoJiang discarded plans for conservation, ignored the pleas of the Chinese-American architect IM Pei (who, alone of his peers, emerges with honour) and razed ...
- Summer Poetry Reading: Mark Doty - BU Today
Summer Poetry Reading: Mark DotyBU Today, MA - 2 hours agoContemporary American poet Mark Doty is the author of several poetry collections, including his just published Fire to Fire; and School of the Arts. He ...
- Authors get rock-star treatment at Brazil festival - San Diego Union Tribune
Authors get rock-star treatment at Brazil festivalSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - 2 hours ago“Our culture is more about music, it's not really used to literature,” said Ryana Gabech, 23, who was going from bar to bar selling her new poetry book. ...
- Luke pessimistic about poetry (Digital Spy)
Rudyard Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' proves harder to memorise than housemates thought.
- War poet Robert Graves 'stole work from his mistress' - The Independent
Few would doubt the brilliance of Robert Graves, a man considered to be one of Britain's foremost war poets whose verses on Greek mythology and frontline conflict cemented his name in literary history. But one academic has accused the poet of ...
- Celebrity stars from Apprentice and Dragons den help pupils to shine - icSeftonandWestLancs
Celebrity stars from Apprentice and Dragons den help pupils to shineicSeftonandWestLancs, UK - 11 hours agoJoining Shine is free at www.shineweek.co.uk and every school registered receives a free creative kit to help towards their celebrations. ...
- Small Talk: Siri Hustvedt - Financial Times
Small Talk: Siri HustvedtFinancial Times, UK - 4 hours agoShe is the author of three previous novels, a poetry collection and three collections of essays, in which art history is a frequent theme. ...
- Young entrepreneur plans bookstore, café in Rockford’s first LEED ... - Rapid Growth
Rapid GrowthYoung entrepreneur plans bookstore, café in Rockford’s first LEED ...Rapid Growth, MI - 5 hours agoHall plans to hold author book signings, poetry readings, children’s events, and will carry journals, cards and educational toys and offer wireless Internet ...
- Simon Critchley's top 10 philosophers' deaths - guardian.co.uk
Simon Critchley's top 10 philosophers' deathsguardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoHe found a vocation in teaching philosophy, although his passions still lie in music, poetry and politics. The Book of Dead Philosophers is his eighth book. ...
- Fiction review: David Guterson's 'The Other' (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Other By David Guterson Knopf; 256 pages; $24.95 Two 16-year-old runners from opposite sides of Seattle, one descended from bankers, the other from "nail bangers," meet at a high school race. They connect over a shared love of wilderness hiking and...
- Remembering Cpl. Courtney ‘Spanky’ Brooks - Baltimore Times
Remembering Cpl. Courtney ‘Spanky’ BrooksBaltimore Times, MD - 44 minutes agoCpl. Brooks also had a hidden talent: poetry. He wrote poems for his nephew and niece, Brooks-Tucker's son and daughter. Brooks-Tucker framed many of the ...
- An intelligent portrayal of everyday life short stories - Sowetan
An intelligent portrayal of everyday life short storiesSowetan, South Africa - 1 hour agoFor those who enjoy poetry, this book is also for you. Be an active part of the Sowetan online community: subscribe to the Sowetan weekly email newsletter!
- Book notes Berkeley's early history as a haven for artists and unconventional souls (The Sacramento Bee)
Berkeley of the 1960s invented nothing with its free thinkers, free spirits and free love. The locals had been partaking of illegal substances, experimenting with religion, practicing anarchy, living communally and wearing crazy-looking clothes long before then. Xavier Martinez, right, on the faculty of the California School of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley, paints a portrait of author Jack ...
- Book On Aids, Violence Launched - AllAfrica.com
Book On Aids, Violence LaunchedAllAfrica.com, Washington - 6 hours agoThe book, We Must Choose Life, was written by ordinary Namibian women under the auspices of a community-based organisation, Women Leadership Centre. ...
- Secrets and lives (Salon.com)
Sebastian Barry may be the most exhilarating prose stylist in Irish fiction. His new book weaves together strands from Ireland's past -- and his own.
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