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- Reporting: Los Angeles - American Reporter
DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- I've always blamed Jack Kerouac. "On the Road" was published on Sept. 5, 1957, making it 50 years old this week. With it, Kerouac gave an overarching identity to his friends on both coasts - including poet Alan Ginsberg; traveling ...
- For simple perfection, think Manhattan - AZ Central.com
For simple perfection, think ManhattanAZ Central.com, AZ - 20 hours agoWhich is just as well, since almost no one reads poetry anymore. I've been tasting a lot of silly drinks lately, and I believe we have entered the age of ...
- My View: Some bazaar limericks - Gloucester Daily Times
I recently spent time at the Sidewalk Bazaar, helping out at the booth of the Gloucester Education Foundation. In its three years of existence, the GEF has raised more than $500,000 in grants and donations to help our public schools. The group ...
- Longtime LGBT Activist Passes Away at UCSF - UCSF Today
UCSF TodayLongtime LGBT Activist Passes Away at UCSFUCSF Today, CA - 3 hours agoDOB, which was named after an obscure book of lesbian love poetry, was initially organized to provide secret mutual support and social activities. ...
- Volunteers on a mission (The News Journal)
Simple and intentional living. The phrase resonates with Sandy Rudrud, who first explored what simple living could mean for her 12 years ago.
- Book of the day: The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño - Daily Telegraph
Translated into English for the first time, the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño’s prize-winning book portrays a lost generation. It opens in Mexico City in 1975 with the diary of Juan GarcÃa Madero, a 17-year-old devotee of the “visceral ...
- About the Magazine - Asia Pacific Arts Online Magazine
About the MagazineAsia Pacific Arts Online Magazine, CA - 4 hours agoNovels, manga, poetry. If learning about Asian arts is the goal, talking to the creators is the most worthwhile form of training. Being housed at UCLA gives ...
- 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 ...
- Master of sex and sensibility (The Age)
Screenwriter Andrew Davies uncovers the racy subtexts in classics such as Pride and Prejudice .
- A flight away from the traditional - Stanford Daily
A flight away from the traditionalStanford Daily, CA - 45 minutes agoCalcuttans will say they would rather teach their sons poetry than business, and people worldwide know the city as Mother Teresa’s home base for her works ...
- Art transplant - The Australian
The AustralianArt transplantThe Australian, Australia - 4 hours agoThis is the stuff of Kenneth Slessor's 1920s and '30s poetry and his odd lodgers, flats with single gas-rings, girls thumping mops and aspirin-taking ...
- Dalmiya campaign blooms on Tagore’s poetry - Indian Express
In a unique campaign stunt, Tagore’s timeless words are being used to woo voters in the Maidan circuit ahead of the upcoming elections to the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), with incumbent CAB president Prasun Mukherjee and a resurgent Dalmiya ...
- UN: UNITED NATIONS BRIEFING AND TV - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ... - MaximsNews Network
UN: UNITED NATIONS BRIEFING AND TV - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ...MaximsNews Network, NY - 1 hour agoAssociate Spokesperson: You are aware of the difference between metaphor and reality in poetry, right? Question: Does the United Nations metaphorically ...
- 18,000,000 Gardens - Time
For millions of city gardeners, this was the best time of year. They sent the children to bed early, switched off the radio, plugged the telephone bell and settled down for an evening with their dreams. They opened the new seed catalogues with ...
- Bridge system turns 70 (Kingston Whig-Standard)
Close your eyes and make a wish, because the Thousand Islands International Bridge system is ready to blow out its birthday candles. Monday is the 70th anniversary of the opening of the bridge system, a series of bridges that spans the St. Lawrence River and connects New York [...]
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