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- No hiding from history (Guardian Unlimited)
The Israeli novelist David Grossman said recently that Kafka is a literary stage you have to go through as a writer. South African novelists have been traversing this territory for some time, because of the very inscrutability of their country.
- Shattering the foundations of thought: Wole Soyinka @ 74 - Daily Sun
Daily SunShattering the foundations of thought: Wole Soyinka @ 74Daily Sun, Nigeria - 1 hour agoHe presents us with a modern Ogun or Prometheus in this novel which combines Ofeyi’s poetry (seminal rounds) with Demakin’s guerrilla logistics in order to ...
- Top poet aims for brevity, ephemeral substance - Seattle Times
Seattle TimesTop poet aims for brevity, ephemeral substanceSeattle Times, United States - 15 minutes ago"So I had to start dealing with these abstractions like love, death, the wheel of fortune." It took eight years to get a poem accepted at a serious poetry ...
- Words of Wisdom: Myth and its symbols - Marconews
Words of Wisdom: Myth and its symbolsMarconews, FL - 1 hour agoAs poetry, the words of myth are preferential here in explaining and discussing things like this because the words of prose are inadequate to explain these ...
- Gingold Talks Spore's 'Magic Crayon' Approach - Gamasutra
Gingold Talks Spore's 'Magic Crayon' ApproachGamasutra, CA - 49 minutes agoMagnetic poetry. “It blows my mind,” he said, that people can take these random words and create deeply meaningful poems. “It shows that the content is ...
- Tom Perrotta to headline first Portsmouth Literary Festival - Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH — This October, the New Hampshire Writers’ Project kicks off its 20th anniversary celebrations by bringing a three-day literary festival to Portsmouth as part of the New Hampshire Writers’ Trail. On Oct. 23, 24, and 25, the ...
- A new reading of Emily Dickinson. - New Yorker
New YorkerA new reading of Emily Dickinson.New Yorker, United States - 22 minutes agoIn the course of their friendship, Higginson tried to lead this “wayward” sport of nature, whose rhymes were off, whose rhythm he called “spasmodic,” whose ...
- A bit crappy for Ricky - Independent Online
A bit crappy for RickyIndependent Online, South Africa - 54 minutes agoThere were more big hits than a Rolling Stone concert, but the physicality was married with clear and precise thinking: it was as close to poetry as assault ...
- Nigeria: The State of the Arts - AllAfrica.com
Nigeria: The State of the ArtsAllAfrica.com, Washington - 2 hours agoIn poetry, I look forward to the day when and where a national event like the celebration of Nigeria's independence, Children's Day or inauguration of a new ...
- Sue Bell Rings Live with "Only Love" (All About Jazz)
After a very successful show celebrating the completion of her newest project “Only Love" at Seattle's premier club Jazz Alley, Sue Bell can be heard and seen in other local venues this summer delivering songs from that recording and others.
- After nearly decade incarcerated, Abraham showed promise (The Oakland Press)
In January 2007, just as Nathaniel Abraham became a free man, his sister said Abraham wanted to show the world he had been worth the trouble.
- Cool and Breezy Cuba - World Music Central
World Music CentralCool and Breezy CubaWorld Music Central, India - 2 hours agoDelving into the "nueva trova" movement of mixing lyrical poetry with the island's folk traditions, Cafe Cubano smartly flavors the familiar with a ...
- Why the Expats Left Paris - Wall Street Journal
In a picture taken in 1954 in front of the Café Tournon in Paris's chic sixth arrondissement, the writers and editors of the recently founded Paris Review are arranged in a human pyramid, with a row of casually dressed women sitting in chairs at the ...
- Book club confidential (City Pulse)
For more than 40 years, authors, friends and Michigan State University alumni Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane have exchanged letters, documenting a trove of their trials, tribulations and careers.
- Eric Cantona: Still the king of England? - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukEric Cantona: Still the king of England?Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 4 hours agoIt's 11 years since Eric Cantona retired from mixing artistry with mayhem on the football pitch, and blending poetry with mind-blowing madness off it and, ...
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