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- Adiga ready with second novel - Statesman
London, Oct.15: Enjoying the spotlight after winning the 2008 Man Booker prize for his debut novel, young Indian novelist Arvind Adiga says his second novel is “almost done” but declined to give details about the upcoming book. The 33-year-old ...
- Palestinians mourn national poet - AFP
AFPPalestinians mourn national poetAFP - 56 minutes agoThe 67-year-old penned over two dozen books of poetry and prose in a career spanning nearly five decades that captured the Palestinian experience of war, ...
- A metamorphosis of readers’ taste & writers’ vocation - The Statesman
A metamorphosis of readers’ taste & writers’ vocationThe Statesman, India - 16 hours agoAs a result the culture of short stories and poetry has suffered.” Disclaimer: These are Internet generated discussion threads for which the The Statesman ...
- Murder, sex (& high tea) - Independent
Murder, sex (& high tea)Independent, UK - 13 minutes agoTaxed to explain why no examples of her poetry-writing detective Adam Dalgleish's actual poetry has ever appeared in her books apart from some callow ...
- Saddam remains a hometown hero - Seattle Times
The room where Saddam Hussein is buried has pictures of him, along with poems about him and things he once owned. The curtains are woven with the words "The Hall of Martyrs." AWJA, Iraq — In the hometown of Saddam Hussein, they still call the late ...
- Why most arthouse films are so unspeakably awful - Guardian Blogs
The three vital ingredients of an arthouse film: a child, a pylon, and silence. Photos: AFP/Getty/Peter Parks / Guardian/Christopher Thomond / Guardian/Sarah Lee Hi there! Just back from the Festival del Film Locarno 2008 . Expect you're eager to ...
- Let's party! (Isthmus)
Welcome, students! I hope you had a wonderful summer! And I know you're dying to head off to the bars, but if you'd just give me a few minutes of your time I'd like to introduce you to some former students who'd love to tag along with you. Each has his or her own story to tell, but really it's just the same story over and over again....
- Hill Canadianizes slave literature; Grant celebrates North Preston - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Hill Canadianizes slave literature; Grant celebrates North PrestonTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 13 minutes agoThough Hill recounts the typical horrors (mass murders, splitting up of families, the stench of slave ships, the death-march coffles, rape, etc. ...
- After Dark: Can't beat the livin' on Carrol's Creek deck - HometownAnnapolis.com
"Summertime, and the living is easy." Gershwin could have been writing about life along the Chesapeake Bay when he penned those lines 70-some years ago, as this is one of the best places to live come summertime, with so much to do and everyone ...
- Using the Law to Protect Friendship Seems Yucky: A Guest Post - New York Times Blogs
Ethan Leib , an associate professor of law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law, blogged here earlier this week about his research on friendship and the law. This is his second of three posts on the subject. In my last post ...
- Want to see your name in our “Monkeybrains” section? - Houston Community Newspapers
The Bulletin is seeking creative submissions from anyone 15 and under for a new Youth Content feature. Are you a budding artist? Writer? Photographer? Send your work to Nicky Lipartito at nlipartito@thebulletin.us -or- The Bulletin 1500 Walnut St ...
- Northshore Chamber Society concert - Budgeteer News
Transplanted and Lyrical A song recital by Janet MacDonald, mezzo-soprano, and her son Michael MacDonald, baritone, with Samuel Black, pianist. Music by Reynaldo Hahn and Gerald Finzi, both translplanted conmposers who are exceptionally lyrical in ...
- Mike Gordon: The Jambands.com Reader Interview - jambands.com
Mike Gordon: The Jambands.com Reader Interviewjambands.com, NY - 2 hours agoBefore that I was in Waltham in an apartment building where Steve Andelman was my best friend, he was zero and I was one. And then when I was three, ...
- Books: Peeking into the minds of lovers - Salt Lake Tribune
No serious writer in America works with a lighter touch than Robert Olen Butler. That sure hand, guided by a potent creative intelligence, saves books like 1996's "Tabloid Dreams," inspired by supermarket weekly headlines, from mere whimsy. Butler ...
- New movie ‘The Express' sparks fond memories of football star Ernie Davis (Belleville News-Democrat)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The new film "The Express" - about legendary Syracuse running back Ernie Davis - holds special importance for Helen T. Gray, The Kansas City Star's religion editor.
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