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- Singer Wins Prize For Emerging Writers (Rockbridge Weekly)
LEXINGTON, VA – Margot Singer of Granville, Ohio has been named recipient of the 2008 Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, awarded annually by Shenandoah and Washington and Lee University, for her book The Pale of Settlement from the University of Georgia Press (2007). The book is also winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.
- A testament to Lessing's literary vitality (Concord Monitor)
Last year, Doris Lessing, almost 88 and the outspoken, iconoclastic author of more than 50 books - novels, story collections, poetry and nonfiction - became the oldest writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. This year, she has published yet another volume, a clever, moving coupling of fiction and nonfiction.
- Netlets for Saturday, Aug. 30 - Minneapolis Star Tribune
I dont know, about this pick. I have my reservations. What about the Scandal that Palin is in. See her full background info, Pictures, and … read more the Scandal at http://www.theveep.com Even though he was passed over as John McCain's running ...
- Poets wrestle on stage with their muse (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
There were no rhyming couplets or odes to lovers. This was full-contact poetry, with visceral words bouncing and flying around like, well, like lucha libre wrestlers bouncing off the ropes of the ring.
- From land to water - how modern architects learnt to love the bridge (Guardian Unlimited)
What makes a great city? One part of any definition almost certainly includes water. And where you have water, human ingenuity insists on spanning it. So, great cities always have bridges and tunnels. It's hilarious, but telling, that Manhattanites stigmatise outsiders as 'bridge and tunnel folk'.
- What Are Literary Readings so Excruiatingly Bad? - Maisonnueve
What Are Literary Readings so Excruiatingly Bad?Maisonnueve, Canada - 15 minutes agoThe protagonist attends a poetry reading in an unventilated room with a strong “odour of feet” and a drunken patron who shouts invective at the small ...
- Literary agents fight over Brideshead Revisited - Times Online
Dead writers are hot this summer. No point wasting one’s time with new authors. They’re unpredictable, demanding. They require lunch. No, what any literary agent worth his salt needs in 2008 is a classic author with form: famous, prolific and ...
- The rainy season brings new life to an ancient land - Economic Times
The rainy season brings new life to an ancient landEconomic Times, India - 33 minutes agoImagine Kalidasa writing Meghdoot and creating a genre of poetry which came like a breath of fresh air, almost paralleling the process of natural creativity ...
- A Van Cliburn anniversary - Philadelphia Inquirer
A Van Cliburn anniversaryPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 19 minutes agoThere's no "Banner" or poetry; in Russia, he was more a musician than an objectified folk hero and, interestingly, seems more in his element. ...
- 1-25 of 171 results - Seattle Weekly
Category Art Exhibitions Art Openings & Events Books & Authors Cabaret/Burlesque/Variety Classical/Opera Club Events Comedy Dance Family Events Fashion Festivals/Parades Food Events Lectures LGBT Local Film/Arthouse Museums Music Poetry/Spoken Word ...
- The Library of Congress' National Book Festival offers fun-filled ... - PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)The Library of Congress' National Book Festival offers fun-filled ...PR Web (press release), WA - 49 minutes agoEach of the K-12 students presenting will be a winner in the River of Words environmental poetry and art contest sponsored by the Library's Center for the ...
- Palestinians Bid Farewell To Mahmoud Darwish - Infolive.tv
Palestinians Bid Farewell To Mahmoud DarwishInfolive.tv, Israel - Aug 13, 2008... of Ramallah on Wednesday, attended by Palestinian dignitaries and family members who mourned the man who fought for the the Palestinian cause in words. ...
- Dinner, Drinks & a Movie: Peppermint Thai Cuisine, Pineapple Mojito at ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
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- Intercourse’ tales aim beyond erotic - Tacoma News Tribune
No serious writer in America works with a lighter touch than Robert Olen Butler. That sure hand, guided by a potent creative intelligence, saves books like “Tabloid Dreams” (1996), inspired by supermarket weekly headlines, from mere whimsy ...
- 'He was a smart, rather vain man' (BBC News)
Former BBC chief news correspondent Kate Adie spent several years covering the Bosnian conflict, and met one of its "architects", Radovan Karadzic, several times.
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