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- Award-winning authors to conduct writing workshop in Mountainlair - Daily Anaeum
Award-winning authors will be conducting a writing workshop at West Virginia University in order to improve students’ writing ability. The West Virginia University Department of English is holding the 12th Annual West Virginia Writer’s Workshop ...
- ‘Dark Night’ reinvents a film genre (The Sudbury Star)
“THE DARK KNIGHT” 4 stars, SilverCity Batman” isn’t a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about. That’s because of the performances, because of [...]
- Ever thine. Ever mine: How romantic are today's authors? (Independent)
There's a memorable moment in the recent movie, Sex and the City, when Carrie lugs out an oversized book called Love Letters of Great Men, and entertains Mr Big with flowery passages from Byron and Bonaparte. It's a scene that had SATC fans rushing out to bookshops, only to discover that while the letters quoted were real, the book was never more than a Hollywood prop.
- Letters: Blair's fluffy thinking (Independent)
Sir: Far from making the case that we need to learn to live with "a diverse religious ecology", Tony Blair, in his article (14 June) plugging his Faith Foundation, merely succeeds in reminding us of the intellectual poverty of his signature "focus-group" approach.
- End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
NEW YORK - My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle ...
- Chairs draw top dollar (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
A crescent-shaped chair at the Contemporary Arts Center's Silk & Spice gala doesn't sell, but nine others do, artists tackle Laughing Brook, and Jack Meanwell is honored.
- Coming Up - Daily Independent
Rob McNurlin and his Beatnik Cowboys, plus Paul Callicoat and Sasha Colette, will perform Saturday at 7:30 p.m. From the permanent collection of the Kentucky Folk Art Center, select works of Minnie Adkins. Paintings by Bill Meadows, pottery by his ...
- Teen feels teacher's devotion went well beyond her classroom (SaukValley.com)
AMBOY -- Sometimes it's the hours spent outside the classroom that separate a good teacher from a great one. In her essay, Jessica Schnaiter, 18, remembered her English teacher as someone who inspired her and instilled a new appreciation for literature and poetry.
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse - Miami Herald
PHILADELPHIA - "Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the ...
- Remembering when our cause was just - Haaretz.com
The shareholders arrived at the board meeting. They arrived from every corner of the land. They came from the cities and the villages. They walked slowly, their backs slightly hunched. Some used a walking stick, some leaned on their companions. Some ...
- Poem of the Month, Treating Addiction, and Holga Cameras - KUOW NPR
KUOW NPRPoem of the Month, Treating Addiction, and Holga CamerasKUOW NPR, WA - 6 hours agoNearly four years later, Mary Kollar's "poetry box" has become a Capitol Hill landmark, with 200 to 300 people picking up copies each month. ...
- Amazing story of a childhood ripped apart by abusive parents - Glasgow Daily Record
Amazing story of a childhood ripped apart by abusive parentsGlasgow Daily Record, UK - 30 minutes agoShe remembers: "I still had ambitions to study and make a better life for my son than the life I'd had. I'd always loved books and poetry and wanted to ...
- Go! guide June 27 (The Daily Reflector)
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- "Mad Men" Gives O'Hara a Boost - Publishers Weekly
"Mad Men" Gives O'Hara a BoostPublishers Weekly, NY - 35 minutes agoBy Craig Morgan Teicher -- Publishers Weekly, 8/12/2008 7:17:00 AM It's not unhead of for a TV show to boost sales of a book, but poetry titles don't often ...
- North West Evening Mail (North-West Evening Mail)
THE last A Poem and a Pint of the current season will welcome distinguished poet and poetry editor, Christopher Reid – described as the country’s most jaunty, disturbing poet – as the guest performer.
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