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- Who do you consider a modern-day patriot? Moyers believes ... - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Who do you consider a modern-day patriot? Moyers believes ...Dubuque Telegraph Herald, IA - 2 hours agoAlthough he had stints with CBS and NBC news and served as publisher of Newsday, he is best known for the many interviews, reports and documentaries he has ...
- Teenager beaten to death in park was 'victim of happy slap attack' - Daily Mail
A teenager savagely battered to death in park is believed to have been the victim of a 'happy slap' attack on a mobile phone. Flicking through the autumn glossy fashion magazines, I noticed that some of the models did not look very well. A few of ...
- World writers decry censorship at Swedish literary meet (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Bangladeshi novelist-in-hiding Taslima Nasreen joined international writers gathered at a literary conference in Stockholm Tuesday to deplore how censorship and persecution affect their work.
- Buddhist Community Crosses Barriers - Daily Californian
Buddhist Community Crosses BarriersDaily Californian, CA - 22 minutes ago... which featured poetry by young, non-Japanese American Buddhists, said Reverend David Matsumoto of the temple. Snyder's friendship with Beat Generation ...
- Oz Without GPS - Washington Post Blog
Here's my piece in Slate about giving up on GPS devices (written on vacation in Australia as you will see). The nut grafs: '...the GPS device robs the traveler of a human skill that has emerged from Deep Time. We are generally quite good at reading ...
- David Biespiel's poetry column addresses variations in Philip Whalen's 'Zenshinji' (The Oregonian)
L ast month I was visiting a cousin who showed off his framed broadside of the poem "Zenshinji" by his late friend, poet Philip Whalen. Whalen was born in 1923 in Oregon and grew up in The Dalles (he and my cousin attended Reed College during the Gary Snyder and Lew Welch era of the late 1940s).
- Eclipse Unifies Community (The Lakeland Ledger)
In "The Moose," a poem much too long to print here, the late Elizabeth Bishop was able to show a community being created from a group of strangers on a bus who come in contact with a moose on the highway.They watch it together and become one.
- Worst Person I Know (New York Times)
A novel about mothers-in-law, including the one in the mirror.
- The Coffee House of Kolkata - Merinews
The Coffee House of KolkataMerinews, India - 40 minutes agoIt used to be the meeting place for those who tried their hands at penning prose or poetry. The promising ones got willing listeners who listened in rapt ...
- James Bond's TLS - Times Online
In late 1959 Ian Fleming’s marriage was foundering and his James Bond novels were not tripping off the page as he would have liked. As an escape, he agreed to fly round the world, researching a travel book called Thrilling Cities. By November he ...
- RECENT & RECOMMENDED - Globe and Mail
RECENT & RECOMMENDEDGlobe and Mail, Canada - 5 hours agoBy David A. Wilson, McGill- Queen's University Press, $39.95 This omnibus selection showcases MacEwen's versatility in a variety of genres, including poetry ...
- Go giggle at the Spa - Bridlington Today
Go giggle at the SpaBridlington Today, UK - 3 hours agoReligion, politics, sport, terrorism, poetry, the police, philosophy, royalty and his long-suffering mum have all been given the Greg Cook treatment, ...
- THE KEEPER: THE LEGEND OF OMAR KHAYYAM (Film Journal)
Making his feature film directorial debut, Kayvan Mashayekh maintains traditional storytelling technique in The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam , but at least produces a lovely-looking, capably made motion picture.
- Toshiko Mori - Metropolis Magazine
Toshiko MoriMetropolis Magazine, NY - 2 hours agoI’m doing the Poe Pavilion, which is built next to Edgar Allan Poe’s last house, and I enjoyed reading about the short stories and poetry he wrote there. ...
- Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona and Woody (Time Magazine)
Woody Allen's latest, unveiled at Cannes, nails the art of falling in love and messing things up
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