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- Taking a Buddhist pilgrimage in San Francisco - International Herald Tribune
SAN FRANCISCO : A block off Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown - beyond the well-worn path tourists take past souvenir shops, restaurants and a dive saloon called the Buddha Bar - begins a historical tour of a more spiritual nature. Duck into ...
- Author Profile (NDTV)
Khushwant Singh is India’s best-known writer and columnist. He has been founder–editor of Yojana, and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and the Hindustan Times.
- Off To Cover The Obama Grassroots: I Was Not Going To Be Long - Huffington Post
Off To Cover The Obama Grassroots: I Was Not Going To Be LongHuffington Post, NY - 18 minutes agoI thought that immersion in poetry might provide perspective. Instead Merwin has been freaking me out. I've burrowed among his collected works, ...
- Performing her duty (The Capital)
Alice Butler Bradshaw was 21 years old when she cast her first ballot in 1924, just four years after the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. In every election since then, Mrs. Bradshaw has faithfully made her way to the polls.
- So you want to study ... - Guardian Unlimited
It's been asked, what good are the works of Shakespeare when it comes to clinching a job (acting aside, naturally)? Well, while it doesn't come wrapped in vocational packaging, the skills you obtain from an MA in English will prepare you for most ...
- City Book Fair wants to put burgeoning literary community on the same page (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Buenos Aires had Borges. St. Petersburg had Pushkin. And Nabokov. And Akhmatova. And Brodsky. Not to mention Dostoevsky. (Ah, the Russians!) Even petite Newburyport, Mass., population 17,000, draws thousands of tourists and over 60 authors to its annual literary festival. What about San Diego?
- Historical Novel's Message More Relevant Than Ever: Gershowitz's Poignant Jewish Family Saga Re-Released (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Twenty years after this award-winning best seller was first published by Bantam, Remember this Dream by Harold Gershowitz is back in print and available now through Amazon.com .
- Poet Imlah wins £10000 prize - BBC News
BBC NewsPoet Imlah wins £10000 prizeBBC News, UK - 4 hours ago"I believe that good poetry finds ways to make us look differently at old things, and look at new things that we might otherwise have ignored," said Ms ...
- Saul Willams' 'Niggy Tardust' to be Release in Stores! - Altsounds.com
Altsounds.comSaul Willams' 'Niggy Tardust' to be Release in Stores!Altsounds.com, UK - 14 hours agoSaul Williams, respected for both politically charged poetry as well as his influential music style, recently released "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation ...
- Daniel Pearl World Music Days - NewsBlaze (press release)
Daniel Pearl World Music DaysNewsBlaze (press release), CA - 1 hour agoWorld Music Days continues his legacy of hope and international friendship." Monday 27th October - Lecture by Steffen Franz a/k/a Stand Out Selector, ...
- Teen Prostitute Describes Life On The Streets (Bayinsider)
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Tajanik Thompson walks the streets of Oakland to make a living. She told KTVU that she will turn 18 next week, but her life on the streets started when she was only eleven years old.
- Duke, Virginia may rediscover their ill will (The News & Observer)
When the subject is Duke football, the last words that normally come to mind are "ill will."
- The Silence at the Song's End: a memorial for Nicholas - Times Online
When two artistic forms collide, or mate, something new is born. It can be exhilarating or awful: in the bad corner a novelist's work is traduced on screen, or a classical tune mangled by a pop remix. In the good corner a fine novel emerges from a ...
- New board of 'Monitor' contributors will begin writing soon - Concord Monitor
New board of 'Monitor' contributors will begin writing soonConcord Monitor, NH - 38 minutes ago"It was the closest I have ever felt a piece of prose has come to being poetry," he says. • Peter Imse, 57, of Bow, is a lawyer with Sulloway & Hollis in ...
- Short Cuts - London Review of Books (subscription)
Short CutsLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - Oct 15, 2008Like Villon, Pound eluded the hangman, but the DTC was full of serious offenders from the ranks, mostly African American, and there were hangings from time ...
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