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- 'Diminished Capacity': Tale's charm steamrollered by faux whimsy - Chicago Tribune
"Diminished Capacity" rests on the fate of a small item of great value, a Chicago Cubs baseball card—Frank "Wildfire" Schulte, 100 years old, near-mint condition. Cub-wise it's a good year to bring this story to the screen. In his feature film ...
- A prize worth cracking a beer over - Toronto Star
A prize worth cracking a beer overToronto Star, Canada - 10 hours agoToronto-born Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson of Antigonish, NS, have won national poetry prizes. The winners of the 2008 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial ...
- Hay's prose inspires Earth Day readers - Cape Codder
Hay's prose inspires Earth Day readersCape Codder, MA - 1 hour agoHay married Kristi Putnam on Valentine’s Day 1942 and published his first book of poetry, “A Private History,” in 1943. Many natural history books followed: ...
- Out In History (RainbowNetwork.com)
If you need some inspiration for LGBT History Month, then look no further than Thom Nickels who has just published Out in History , a lovely collection of essays and mini-biographies of prominent gay people from the past.
- Waiter in contention for literary award - WalesOnline
Waiter in contention for literary awardWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 6 hours agoRaisin, who is still waiting tables while working on his second novel, is one of 16 writers longlisted for the prize for works of fiction and poetry. ...
- First Unsung Hero is Nova Scotia poet - The Chronicle Herald
KENNETH LESLIE was an award-winning Nova Scotia-born poet and a political activist in the U.S. during the tempestuous 1930s and ’40s but his story is not well-known. Fittingly, he’s the first subject of Vision TV’s Unsung Heroes summer series ...
- London to host Russian poetry and arts festival in June (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) - The sixth international festival of Russian poetry and arts "Pushkin in Britain" will be held in London on June 5-10, the organizers said.
- Editorial: The Art and Science of Living Well (Berkeley Daily Planet)
When you get to be a certain age, news of death comes all too often. It’s been only a week or so since we mused on the loss of a couple of good friends in this space, and now another good man is gone. Readers, especially younger readers, might be getting tired of all this talk of death.
- The Backdrop of Shim Hun’s “Evergreen Tree” - Donga.com
“As the earth is round, if I keep walking, I will be able to come back after meeting all the children around the world. Forward! March on!” Flags of all nations flapped in the wind across the blue sky above the playground of the Sangnok ...
- '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days' -- 4 stars - Chicago Tribune
Great acting comes in all shapes, sizes and temperatures, and sometimes a murmur of the heart speaks as loudly as the grand theatrical gesture. For a demonstration in the opposite of what Daniel Day-Lewis is up to, gloriously, in "There Will Be Blood ...
- Dylan's lover tells us what it was like - Toronto Star
Dylan's lover tells us what it was likeToronto Star, Canada - 7 hours ago... rights politics and modern poetry, and to finally break up with him when the pressures of his stardom became too great. Her new book, A Freewheelin' ...
- County Dorset: Far from stress of modern life - San Francisco Chronicle
County Dorset: Far from stress of modern lifeSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 36 minutes agoThe England of my mind's eye can be a hard place to find in real life, but in County Dorset, I believe I have found it. Dorset rears up from the English ...
- Beloved poet, prof, playwright 'an artistic giant' (London Free Press)
James Reaney, a national literary icon who stayed close to his Southwestern Ontario roots during a celebrated, 50-year career as a playwright, poet and professor, has died.
- Boston Children's Museum Presents Children of Hangzhou: Connecting ... - WELT ONLINE
Boston Children's Museum Presents Children of Hangzhou: Connecting ...WELT ONLINE, Germany - 41 minutes agoThe Hangzhou young people will introduce themselves through media and the activities of their daily lives. Visitors will discover that Chinese life today ...
- So much to do, so little summer - Cape Breton Post
So much to do, so little summerCape Breton Post, Canada - 6 hours agoHow about a poetry reading? Poetry With A View, an event sponsored by the Friends of Cape Breton University Library, returns to the Big Wave Cafe in ...
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