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- Five-figure deal for Finn - The Bookseller (subscription)
Five-figure deal for FinnThe Bookseller (subscription), UK - 16 minutes ago... a "high five-figure" deal struck between Rebecca McNally, the newly-appointed publishing director of fiction and poetry, and Finn's agent, Laura Cecil. ...
- Apocalypse wow - Financial Times
S kies ashen with doom. Jagged, broken-topped skyscrapers like ruined wedding cakes. Lines of deserted, dust-gathering cars stuck in eternal gridlock. An empty pram pushed along by an uncaring wind. And of course a newspaper – every apocalypse film ...
- The write stuff - Danbury News-Times
A freshman at Immaculate High and a senior at New Fairfield High captured the top writing prizes for students from Fairfield County in the 11th annual IMPAC/Connecticut State University System prose and poetry competition. "Ghosts on This Island/To ...
- Apocalyptica brings its cello-driven heavy metal to Cleveland's House ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Finns love their classical music. They also dig their heavy metal, too, as many an American metal act has discovered on tour. It makes sense, then, that the world's foremost heavy-metal cello ensemble -- Apocalyptica -- hails from Finland. The ...
- Go west, young men and women - Boston Globe
Go west, young men and womenBoston Globe, United States - 3 hours agoThis month the museum is putting on the Bang on a Can experimental music festival, going on daily through July 26. On Saturday, regular gallery admission ...
- Shooting revisits magic of Maravich era - Baton Rouge Advocate
It was a different time. The team played its home games on a basketball court that sat atop a dirt floor in what was essentially a rodeo arena. It’s star was a skinny kid who favored floppy, oversized socks. They were his lucky socks. He washed ...
- Finish Line: Dan Cook Dies at 81 - 1200 WOAI
Finish Line: Dan Cook Dies at 811200 WOAI, TX - 5 hours agoCook was part of the group of mid Twentieth Century sportswriters who could make a sporting event poetry for the ages. His columns, frequently featuring his ...
- Movie allows time to share kung fu magic with the grandkids - Democrat and Chronicle
STAMFORD, Conn. — Two of my grandchildren and I are on our way to see Kung Fu Panda , an animated film starring the voice of Jack Black. We're doing this to escape the heat — it's 95 degrees here — and because Kung Fu Panda is required viewing ...
- Durham Bulls still bask in Hollywood glory (MSNBC)
DURHAM, N.C. - The bull still snarls from atop the outfield wall, snorting smoke after home runs and taunting hitters with four simple words written on it: Hit bull, win steak.
- Kenya: Kwani Lit Fest Faculty (AllAfrica.com)
Kwani faculty comprises a selection of some of the most exciting contemporary writers from Africa and beyond.
- Caution: Mangled metaphor ahead - Power Line
Caution: Mangled metaphor aheadPower Line, MN - 13 hours agoThe crossroads is a venerable metaphor in American song and poetry. Robert Johnson devoted a seminal blues song to it in "Crossroads Blues" and Robert Frost ...
- A musical salute to the written word (Austin American-Statesman)
Jazz vocalist Tina Marsh has always loved poetry — Mary Oliver, Rumi, Federico GarcĂa Lorca, Marshall Stewart Ball — and she clearly admires the musical aspects of literature. "So why not?" she said to herself this spring.
- Freehold student's poem takes top honors home - News Transcript
Freehold student's poem takes top honors homeNews Transcript, NJ - 1 hour agoDana Corn, daughter of Rita and Steve Corn of Freehold, was recently recognized for her entry in a poetry contest for young poets sponsored by Creative ...
- Sun Road at 75 - Daily Interlake
In 1932, this gas steam shovel from Colonial Construction Co. worked on the east side of Going-to-the-Sun Road. Going-to-the-Sun Mountain looms in the background. It was planned as an invitational affair to be held at Logan Pass, but now the 75th ...
- Leonard Cohen - LiveDaily
One of the most fascinating and enigmatic -- if not the most successful -- singer/songwriters of the late '60s, Leonard Cohen has retained an audience across four decades of music-making interrupted by various digressions into personal and creative ...
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