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- ‘I have no aspirations for a Booker’ - Hindu
Hindu‘I have no aspirations for a Booker’Hindu, India - 12 hours agoI believe in readable prose, not literary conceit. I don’t suffer from literary affectation. I have no aspirations for a Booker.” Biting words from a writer ...
- Inside Dish - Burlington Free Press
The owner of Church Street’s Bangkok Bistro is branching out with the opening of Food 88 at 24 Main St. in Winooski. The new eatery will feature a full menu of Japanese cuisine, some Thai food and more than 100 types of sake, beer and wine, but no ...
- Jon Carroll - San Francisco Gate
There is always ferment in the world of poetry, probably because there is rarely money in the world of poetry (absent the eccentric bequest), so turmoil is the only recreation available. Here David Lehman, the general editor of the Best American ...
- Annual event to feature poetry - Press & Sun-Bulletin
Annual event to feature poetryPress & Sun-Bulletin, NY - 5 hours agoClark-Johnson is a 1967 Binghamton University graduate and former publisher of the Binghamton Evening Press, the predecessor to the Binghamton Press ...
- Artist exorcises his demons through print - Batavia Sun
Richard Cronborg turned to the making of art to vent his creative urges. Many of his paintings were portraits of women, lost souls beaten down by life, whom he had met in smoke-filled bars. His paintings took him to upscale galleries where he ...
- Build a community of peace in Rochester to thwart violence - Democrat and Chronicle
Last week's Democrat and Chronicle article regarding the death of Kevin McInnis ("Father of 15 slain on day for dads," June 18) included testimony from his daughter, Nakeya "Nikki" Durant. Her closing words in the article were, "I want everyone to ...
- Blogs » Tanja Cilia (Times of Malta)
I am old enough to have lived at a time when there were regular “handwriting lessons during school hours, in preparation for our learning writing “in cursive script”.
- Waiter tipped to land £60,000 literary prize - Metro.co.uk
Restaurant workers more commonly write bills than award-winning novels - but in Ross Raisin's case he didn't have to wait long for literary success. The 27-year-old has been longlisted for a major book prize at his first attempt. The waiter-turned ...
- Rocky pays tribute to former president (Billings Gazette)
Longtime Rocky Mountain College President Arthur DeRosier Jr. was remembered with personal tributes, poetry and music during a soulful memorial service Friday morning. DeRosier, 76, died of pancreatic cancer in November at his son's home in Louisville ...
- On Good Guys and Bad Guys - New York Times Blogs
On Good Guys and Bad GuysNew York Times Blogs, NY - 51 minutes 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 ...
- Caroline Kennedy brings discretion to veep search (AP via Yahoo! News)
Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment.
- 'Lyrical terrorist' wins court appeal (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
A British woman who called herself the "lyrical terrorist" and wrote a poem about beheading a hostage, has won an appeal against a criminal conviction.
- Ty: 'Hip-hop has no culture' - The Independent
Ty: 'Hip-hop is the whole thing. I think it's deservedly in bad shape because, if you look at American mainstream hip-hop, it has no semblance of culture" "I hate the word alternative," says Ty. "I hate the word off-key, I hate the word jazzy and I ...
- “Nazrul Mela” by Channel-i - The Daily Star
The Daily Star“Nazrul Mela” by Channel-iThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 41 minutes agoHis works -- poetry, songs, features, essays and more -- played a great role during the movements against the British Raj. During the Liberation War his ...
- Free tour is just the ticket at Kennedy Center - Inside Bay Area
Free tour is just the ticket at Kennedy CenterInside Bay Area, CA - 5 hours agoThese performances range from guitar to piano, hip-hop to jazz and even non-musical selections — on July 16 Green Mic will feature poetry slam champions ...
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