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- Popular Russian novels as symbols of liberty and freedom. - American Enterprise Institute
Popular Russian novels as symbols of liberty and freedom.American Enterprise Institute, DC - Leon AronInterrupted only by the gurgling of poured vodka, the confessions offer many vignettes: amusing, sad, tragic. By far the most powerful segment of Andegraund is the hero's three-month descent, meticulously and mercilessly recorded, in the drug-induced ...
- Lexington gets high marks for livability - Lexington Herald-Leader
A few greatest hits from this week's daily Kentucky News Review , a roundup of news about Kentucky and of interest to Kentuckians compiled each day at Kentucky.com. Relocate-America has ranked Lexington in the top 12 cities of its annual list of top ...
- Cambridge University puts Europe's oldest printed books online (Daily Telegraph)
Electronic copies of a treasuretrove of books that are more than 500 years old are to be put online by the University of Cambridge.
- Preview calendar: Special events, theme parks and comedy for June ... - North County Times
Preview calendar: Special events, theme parks and comedy for June ...North County Times, CA"Right Here, Right Now" ---- Moonlight Cultural Foundation's wordswork play reading series presents an evening of original works, read aloud by their authors, as part of the Write Out Loud poetry and literary series; 7:30 pm June 22; Avo Playhouse, ...
- Japan Scales Down Search for Missing U.S. Poet (Fox News)
Weeklong search for an award-winning U.S. poet who disappeared while hiking up a volcano on a remote Japanese island has yielded no clues and authorities will scale down the search, a police official said.
- Carol Ann Duffy chosen as Britain's poet laureate - Register Citizen
LONDON (AP) — Britain on Friday awarded the role of national poet laureate to Carol Ann Duffy — the first woman to hold a post that has been filled by William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes. Duffy, who once said “no self ...
- It's a Mamapalooza - Mankato Free Press
Lynn Kuechle was pleasantly surprised when several young men showed up at the opening event of last year’s Mamapalooza Mankato festival. Kuechle had hoped that the first-time event, a celebration of mothers through arts and culture, would appeal to ...
- Sweet memories are auctioned off Backstage - fwdailynews.com
Sweet memories are auctioned off Backstagefwdailynews.com, INIt begins to look like a trailer, an old sad trailer. All of this including my piano and fireplace and all the sets from my shows and the high school shows are in the gathering place. They will be moved to a sterile, white, clean room in The Big School ...
- Walcott withdraws from Oxford University contest (AP via Yahoo! News)
Nobel literature laureate Derek Walcott has withdrawn from the contest for a prestigious position at Oxford University after anonymous letters criticizing him were sent to professors.
- Story of black settler inspires student poetry (The Acorn)
A movement to rename a peak in the Santa Monica Mountains after the first black man to settle there has inspired poetry by several Moorpark College students.
- Tribute to Herb Davison at Ferguson - Norwalk Plus Magazine
Tribute to Herb Davison at FergusonNorwalk Plus MagazineFriends of the late Herb Davison will honor his memory with a poetry and jazz tribute at The Ferguson Library's South End Branch Thursday, April 30 at 7 pm The evening will feature poet Eleni Begetis and jazz vocalist Cookie Thomas. ...
- [ HARDCOVER: US ] Lands of erotic fantasy and their grim reality - Taipei Times
[ HARDCOVER: US ] Lands of erotic fantasy and their grim realityTaipei Times, TaiwanThere is absolutely nothing Eastern, nothing magical and nothing exotic about it. It is all just quite desperately sad. Simon Winchester is the author of The Professor and the Madman and, most recently, of The Man Who Loved China.
- Arty facts (Otago Daily Times)
A look at what's happening in the world of art this week. Dunedin artist Hannah Joynt has won the Christchurch Centre of Contemporary Art Coca Gallery Anthony Harper Award for Contemporary Art.
- Vital Signs - Artforum
Vital SignsArtforum, NYWhere Emin's work was once shocking and self-consciously “obscene,†it now seems almost quaint; its poetry has outshone its shock-value. The exhibition, comprising neon, animation, sculpture, and works on paper, was beautifully hung, ...
- Bay Bridge Rivalry Continues as Giants Hold 1989 Team Reunion - San Francisco Giants
Interleague play resumes at AT&T Park when the Giants host the American League West during their upcoming nine-game homestand, which opens against their cross-bay rivals, the Oakland Athletics, on Friday, June 12. Following the three-game series with ...
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