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- It was a dark and stormy night with Gossip Lady... - Portsmouth Herald
Editor's note: Gossip Lady is a video series going behind the scenes at local arts and culture hot-spots. Visit seacoastonline.com/gossiplady to watch the videos. We've all heard of historical hauntings in Portsmouth; stories handed down for a ...
- "Mad Men" season finale deconstruction. - San Francisco Gate
Spoiler Alert: This is a deconstruction of the "Mad Men" Season 2 finale. If you haven't seen it, come back when you have . "Mad Men" opened Season 2 with a metaphorical reference point to the contents of the Frank O'Hara book of poetry, "Meditations ...
- The Week in Preview: October 6 - Nashua Telegraph
Today we celebrate the birth anniversary of a clever but dishonest book collector by the name of Thomas J. Wise. Born in 1859 in Gravesend, England, Wise was considered one of the foremost bibliographic experts of his time. This was the case, at ...
- Prose knows those things that can't be taught (Contra Costa Times)
Author of 'Goldengrove' has given up on classes in the craft of writing
- Letters: How to turn Obama doubters into racists - Philadelphia Daily News
AFL-CIO PRESIDENT Pat Eiding said that when he was talking to people about Barack Obama and people said they weren't voting for him because he's too young or inexperienced, what he was actually hearing is "he's black." How does he know what these ...
- Books: "The Good Thief" (The New Yorker)
This striking début novel is an homage to old-fashioned boy’s-own adventure stories, and unfolds like a Robert Louis Stevenson tale retold amid the hardscrabble squalor of Colonial New England. The sheer strangeness of the story is beguiling: a one-handed boy, tainted by his upbringing in a Catholic . . .
- Poet to read from his work Wednesday (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Poet Michael Palmer, a guest of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will read from his work in a free event at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of Dey House on the UI campus.
- Trail of Tears - Nashville Scene
Trail of TearsNashville Scene, USA - 3 hours agoBut Mackenzie (who died in 1980 at age 50 after making just one other feature) had an ear for the poetry of ritualized interaction and an eye for the glint ...
- Bernie Mac's comedic legend is stunted with 'Soul Men' - Oregon Daily Emerald
Bernie Mac's comedic legend is stunted with 'Soul Men'Oregon Daily Emerald, OR - 6 hours agoHe made bits about beating his kids sound like poetry. He threw out the book of grammar by using the word "motherfucker" as a noun, an adjective and a split ...
- The best we can hope for, the best we can muster - CounterPunch
The best we can hope for, the best we can musterCounterPunch, CA - 5 hours ago*Written in 1998, & first published in his book, Streets for Two Dancers, 2004. ROBERT GIBBONS is the poetry & fiction editor of Janus Head. ...
- Cultural fora lacking - The Nation Newspaper
Cultural fora lackingThe Nation Newspaper, Barbados - 4 hours agoToday, our main cultural forum is Crop-Over, which gives expression mainly to calypso and bravely tries to incorporate visual art and craft in its ...
- What's new at your local library (The Idaho Statesman)
Adult non-fiction. Recent Poet Laureate Donald Hall, now 80, provides the reader with a short but revealing and moving memoir of growing up, retreating from academic life to life at his family's New Hampshire farm, and his life with poet Jane Kenyon, as well as his life and grief after her early death from cancer. Hall is, as always in his poetry and prose, both eloquent and plainspoken in his ...
- Archives » August 2008 - Newsweek Blog
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin 's debut in Dayton on Friday was good political theater. She delivered a pitch-perfect speech (presumably written by McCain's ghost writer, Mark Salter) with a panache that suggests she could be a natural on the national stage ...
- UNL's Plains Song Review issues call for submissions - Media Newswire (press release)
UNL's Plains Song Review issues call for submissionsMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 32 minutes agoThe journal includes poetry, essays, fiction, photographs, and black and white art. Past issues have included The Center for Great Plains Studies at the ...
- Chocolate Chips prepares girls for future - News Sun
LAKE VILLA - Arionna Lamon, 7, is looking forward to her first community service project with her fellow Chocolate Chips Association members. They will be serving tea at Winchester House, a health care center for Lake County residents. "I'm happy to ...
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