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- Fiction review: 'A Quiet Adjustment' (San Francisco Chronicle)
A Quiet Adjustment By Benjamin Markovits Norton; 341 pages; $24.95 History has not been kind to Miss Annabella Milbanke. Attractive but no dazzler, well off but not rich, intelligent but lacking any sense of humor, this 19-year-old provincial nevertheless...
- Freeing readers from mundane is award-winning poet's objective - Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Often, the result is a complex rush of humor, sadness and wonder that frees the reader from everyday life, however briefly. Most of all, there is a great deal of exploration and playfulness in her poetry. 'I love playing with words and ideas,' Cleary ...
- Quickies: Daniel's Drag Dream; Pam's 'Date' With Michael? - MSN
"I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup." That's Daniel Radcliffe , musing in the October issue of Details about his desire to trade in his boyish wizarding robes from ...
- Recapping the Emmys (The Star-Ledger)
Alan Sepinwall gives us the scoop on TV's big night
- Derby students help create book on Kansas birds (The Derby Reporter)
The entries of Austin Keller, Nathaniel Harris and Tate Banks are chosen to appear in "Kansas Critters: Birds."
- Salvadoran poet to sign books this weekend - Frederick News-Post
El Salvador native Mayamerica Cortez will read some of her poetry Saturday in Gaithersburg as a celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Salvadoran poetisa Mayamerica Cortez fled her native country in 1980 at the beginning of a 12-year civil war. A ...
- Oil painter offers free demo Oct. 24 (The York Weekly)
YORK and#8212; Get your oils and brushes out and join York artist Brett Gamache for a free lecture/demonstration at 7 p.m. Oct. 24 at the York Art Association on York Street (1A).
- James R. McDermott - Warren Times Gazette
James R. McDermottWarren Times Gazette, RI - 54 minutes agoHe also enjoyed writing poetry commemorating events in his family’s life. Among his hobbies were studying German and Latin, woodworking, and baking Irish ...
- Legacy of NC's Black Mountain College continues - Forbes
Starting in the 1930s, a small, experimental college on the dense wood slopes of North Carolina's western mountains left an outsized mark on American art and culture. Black Mountain College's model of holistic learning and communal work was ahead of ...
- A fictional first lady bares her soul in a racy novel (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Curtis Sittenfeld knew she was being provocative. Invoking "the love that dare not speak its name" in a 2004 article for Salon.com, she burst out of her liberal Democrat's closet and declared: "I love Laura Bush. In fact, there is no public figure I admire more."
- Planning a killer World Music Fest - Chicago Tribune
Planning a killer World Music FestChicago Tribune, United States - 4 hours agoListeners who attended the "Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz" series this summer heard the lyric poetry of trumpeter-composer ElSaffar; this time, ...
- Sister Teresa McElwee retires after 30 years of helping families ... - Orlando Sentinel
Sister Teresa McElwee retires after 30 years of helping families ...Orlando Sentinel, FL - 8 hours agoThe woman who spent years dealing with families in crisis says she'd like to travel, write poetry and learn to play the piano. And of course, give back to ...
- COMING SATURDAY - Muskogee Daily Phoenix
• More than $300,000 missing from Muskogee County Court Clerk’s office. • Okay police chief found guilty in Wagoner County District Court of misdemeanor. • Experience the magic of cowboy and country music, Western film stars, cowboy poetry ...
- Bringing ugly back (The Telegraph)
IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO TALLY ALL THE MAGAZINE ARTICLES, SCHOLARLY TREATISES AND PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS, REALITY SHOWS AND INTERNET SITES, COLLEGE COURSES, LECTURES AND BOOKS DEVOTED TO THE SUBJECT OF BEAUTY. BUT WHAT ABOUT UGLINESS?
- Poet Laureate got writer's block - The Independent
As Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion has worked tirelessly to promote his love of words. But nine years in the job have taken their toll. Speaking to The Independent yesterday, Motion said that while he did not regret accepting the illustrious appointment ...
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