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- National Book Award nominees announced - Seattle Times
NEW YORK — Talk about second chances: Eighty-one-year old Peter Matthiessen has received a National Book Award nomination for "Shadow Country," an 890-page revision of a trilogy of novels he released in the 1990s. Others in the fiction category ...
- Nicholas Blincoe: Serbia's bitter salute to nationhood (Guardian Unlimited)
Nicholas Blincoe: Novi Sad's international literature festival revealed a worrying cynicism about sovereignty and integrity among local poets
- Benny Golson saxes nostalgic - Chicago Tribune
Benny Golson saxes nostalgicChicago Tribune, United States - 4 hours ago... poetry and obvious spontaneity. Every note had something to say. The evening's other high point came in "Mr. PC," by another friend from Golson's youth, ...
- Why so much divisiveness? - La Crosse Tribune
How am I to understand the hatred and divisiveness in this country? How is it that Americans see fellow Americans as the enemy? When our fellow countrymen are demonized and hatred is promoted, how am I to think about the meaning of being an American ...
- Celtic Nation ready to rock (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
When the Pittsburgh Irish Festival opens Friday afternoon, the music of eastern Canada will give a different lilt to the familiar brogue.
- Chocolate Chips prepares girls for future - Waukegan News Sun
Chocolate Chips prepares girls for futureWaukegan News Sun, IL - Oct 30, 2008A friend is a helper because nobody wants to be lonely," Mitchell told the girls. They will serve tea and finger sandwiches, and read poetry and clean up. ...
- SCHOOL BRIEFS (Palatine Countryside)
Poetry slam
- University Theatre to Stage American Opera 'Street Scene' (Kansas City InfoZine)
With a script by Rice, lyrics by African-American poet Langston Hughes and music by the German composer Kurt Weill, "Street Scene" was a groundbreaking opera and earned Weill the first Tony Award for best original score.
- "Wilderness . . . under the surface." - Philadelphia Inquirer
"Wilderness . . . under the surface."Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 19 hours ago"I knew I wanted a wider audience than poetry, but I was looking for a center for a book," she says. She thought of an impressionistic travelogue or a tale ...
- New poetry from Olds, Giscombe, McLane (San Francisco Chronicle)
Poet Sharon Olds observes and records with the acuity and artistry - as opposed to artfulness - readers rightly expect from this prolific, prize-winning San Francisco native. She is so well known for her straightforward physicality and unflinching pursuit of...
- New memoir from Juliana Hatfield - Monsters and Critics.com
Monsters and Critics.comNew memoir from Juliana HatfieldMonsters and Critics.com - 36 minutes agoWriting with the same talent for lyricism and poetry found in her songs, Hatfield has produced an engaging literary memoir that will resonate with anyone ...
- Portage Central grad to appear in Gere film and 'All My Children' - Kalamazoo Gazette
Shannon Kane had just finished filming a soon-to-be released movie as Richard Gere's love interest when she got picked to play a character on the television soap "All My Children." Courtesy of Shannon Kane Former Portage resident Shannon Kane poses ...
- What The "Subprime Poetry Crisis" Means For The Overheated Metapor Market [Freakoutnomics] (Gawker)
Last night at a poetry reading marking the release of the 2008 Best American Poetry anthology the distinguished poet and Finding Forrester star Charles Bernstein delivered a stirring plea for swift...
- WMU's 'West Side Story' looks at classic in 'a whole new way' - Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO -- Forget about "High School Musical." The squeaky-clean young adults at the heart of that ubiquitous franchise live in a Disney fantasy world where everyone gets along and has money and few cares other than what they're going to wear to ...
- Exotic Erotic Ball Adds to Talent Line-up for Largest-Ever Weekend ... - Newsblaze.com
The 29th annual Exotic Erotic Ball and Expo, the internationally acclaimed Celebration of Flesh, Fetish, and Fantasy, and - according to E! Entertainment TV - "The World's #1 Wildest and Sexiest Party," has upped the ante once again in celebration of ...
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