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- 'The Writing Class' by Jincy Willett is a killer murder mystery - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Press, 326 pp., $24.95. Jincy Willett, author of the comic, and bravely titled, "Winner of the National Book Award," has written a murder mystery involving a writing class and has pulled it off brilliantly. The teacher is ...
- New play explores what search reveals about us - Chicago Tribune
PHILADELPHIA - They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: Mange. Human mold. White camellia. Dying Elmo. Could those words also be clues to finding a missing person? That's the premise behind "User 927," a new production in ...
- Journey by the book - Kingston Daily Freeman
Journey by the bookKingston Daily Freeman, NY - 27 minutes agoAt least three of them, though - the Millay Poetry Trail in Austerlitz, Walden Pond in Concord, Mass., and the farm of Robert Frost in New Hampshire - were ...
- Poetry Workshop Offered at Court House Library (Cape May County Herald)
06/26/2008 - 6:00p.m. to 06/26/2008 - 7:00p.m.
- The return of 'Lemmings,' the first 6 minutes of 'The Dark Knight' and ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Thirty-seven years ago, when National Lampoon was still a magazine, it staged "Lemmings" -- a legendary off-Broadway sketch show that featured, among others, John Belushi, Christopher Guest, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray, and helped spawn ...
- The alluring alchemy of Dario Robleto - Seattle Times
The alluring alchemy of Dario RobletoSeattle Times, United States - 2 hours agoWhether those lists are real or pure poetry, it's powerful stuff. Yet at times Robleto's ideas seem overwrought and the objects start to feel way too ...
- Denver's homeless play inspiring role (Rocky Mountain News)
Real homeless people - drug users, prostitutes, fathers, children - told their stories to Steve Sapp, his wife, Mildred Ruiz and director Dee Covington for Curious Theatre Company-commissioned The Denver Project.
- Robert Redford Fights Global Warming With Poetry - NPR News
“Words are just words without action. But I think what we're seeing here today with these poets is the beginning of action.” Talk of the Nation , July 16, 2008 · Robert Redford has been fighting on behalf of the environment for more than 30 ...
- War veteran 'died after receiving wrong drug in operation' - Telegraph.co.uk
Daily MailWar veteran 'died after receiving wrong drug in operation'Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 3 hours agoHe loved dancing and gardening as well as enjoying painting, writing poetry, and going on day trips." His grandson Jason added: "It's worrying how often ...War hero, 90, in hospital for routine knee operation died after ... Daily Mailall 7 news articles
- Ethan Canin’s many-layered novel. - New Yorker
New YorkerEthan Canin’s many-layered novel.New Yorker, United States - 10 minutes agoAnd a complicated, many-layered epic of class, politics, sex, death, and social history it is, shuttling between the twenty-first-century present and the ...
- Album: T Bone Burnett, Tooth of Crime (Nonesuch) - Independent
Album: T Bone Burnett, Tooth of Crime (Nonesuch)Independent, UK - 6 hours agoBut if one discards such vocal expectations, and treats Tooth of Crime like an update of the jazz'n'poetry format, its abundant pleasures become apparent.
- The Two Kinds of Decay - Time Out Chicago
Time Out ChicagoThe Two Kinds of DecayTime Out Chicago, IL - 5 hours agoWith two books of poetry and one short-story collection under her belt, Manguso brings both of those influences to bear in this stunning story of illness ...
- Epilogue: Dad loved wartime stories, music - Athens Banner-Herald
Growing up, the Thrasher children loved to hear their father tell stories. Warren Thrasher didn't regale the four kids with standard fairy tales about knights and their castles, but rather tales of tanks and the tough-as-nails generals of World War ...
- Shuffling Through Memories: B.S. Johnson's 'The Unfortunates' (The New York Sun)
Samuel Beckett is often called a terminus in Anglo-Irish literature. He took modernism's radical approach as far as it would go; it is as though Jackson Pollock was succeeded by portraitists and landscape artists. B.S. Johnson (1933-73) did not get the memo. In 1961, while shopping his first book to agents, Johnson compared it favorably to "Ulysses," and declared himself in the tradition of ...
- Patrons and pies at the Cat and Fiddle - Guardian Unlimited
At some point in the late 1690s (the precise date is not known) a shrewd and literary-minded publisher called Jacob Tonson struck up a meal-deal with a group of aspiring authors who included his own Fleet Street housemate, William Congreve. The ...
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