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- Chance encounter inspires a novel - Australian Star
Chance encounter inspires a novelAustralian Star, Australia - 1 hour ago“I started writing poetry when I was a teenager, but writing The Migrant was my first novel,” he said. “I started it in 2003 and finished it in 2005. ...
- Today in History - Aug. 4 - The Ledger
Today is Monday, Aug. 4, the 217th day of 2008. There are 149 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 4, 1944, Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people, including 15-year-old Anne ...
- Movies (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Philip Roth's novella "The Dying Animal" inspires this drama of a renowned, skirt-chasing academic (Ben Kingsley), whose affair with a Cuban-American graduate student (Penélope Cruz) awakens his sense of sexual possessiveness, throwing his life into emotional disarray.
- Featured Photo: "Pure poetry" (The Daily Texan)
Coleman Hutchison, an assistant English professor, reads drafts of a poem written by Walt Whitman during Poetry on the Plaza at the Harry Ransom Center on Wednesday afternoon. The event, "The Mystique of the Draft," is the first Poetry on the Plaza event of the school year and was opened with the new "Mystique of the Archive" exhibit at the center.
- Art Recycled (Honolulu Advertiser)
"Eco/Logic," on display at The ARTS at Marks Garage, is an environmentally themed art exhibition coinciding with Hawaii Conservation Week. Its 31 artists address issues as global as peak oil and as local as the pollution on O'ahu's beaches, ultimately expressing the interconnectedness of our precarious ecological system.
- Profile: Leonard Cohen - Times Online
Leonard Cohen’s habit of going into every concert with a prayer on his lips is hardly surprising. He believes that someone took a shot at him long ago at a concert in France that was attended by rowdy Maoists. As he reflected later: “They’re ...
- Where the books world ends - Guardian Blogs
Early on in Byron Rogers' The Last Englishman, a biography of JL Carr, the author of A Month In The Country , I came across the following: "When the writer AN Wilson published his Penfriends from Porlock, a collection of the journalism which, in ...
- Maher's mockery misses the point - Los Angeles Times
Maher's mockery misses the pointLos Angeles Times, CA - 20 hours agoFaith is also the spur for everything from the poetry of Psalms to the Cathedral at Chartres to relief missions. "Religulous" is one-dimensional. ...
- Shedding labels, celebrating culture - Rebel Yell
"Spaces of Resistance" was the title of this year's Latina/o Heritage Month Celebration at UNLV. Revolution was certainly on the minds of many as the message sent to those who attended showed how students can freely express themselves and resist ...
- At Tanglewood, a Composer Nears the Century Mark - New York Times
New York TimesAt Tanglewood, a Composer Nears the Century MarkNew York Times, United States - 3 hours ago... and guests have been up to the current international standard: they let listeners focus on the poetry in Mr. Carter’s music instead of its difficulty. ...
- On Shakey Ground - Philadelphia citypaper.net
On Shakey GroundPhiladelphia citypaper.net, PA - 3 hours agoA song like the clumsy "Let's Impeach the President" has all the righteous indignation of "Ohio" with none of the poetry.
- Welcoming An Iranian World-Class Artist to DC Area - Earthtimes (press release)
Welcoming An Iranian World-Class Artist to DC AreaEarthtimes (press release), UK - 11 hours agoIranFuture.org is proud to introduce Shahrokh to American media and politicians of DC. We urge you to attend this night to better understand Persian people ...
- Laurie Daniel: At Cinquain Cellars, the wine is bottled poetry - San Luis Obispo Tribune
David Nagengast, a 1985 enology graduate from Fresno State University, had worked at several wineries in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Clara County and Oregon. But, as is so often the case, he and his wife, Beth, dreamed of having their own ...
- POETRY READINGS AT ST. JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM - Barton Chronicle
Poetry readings by James Hoch and Jim Schley of The Frost Place will be held Wednesday, August 27, at 7:30 p.m., at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. Final event of the 2008 Readings in the Gallery series. For more information, contact Library Director ...
- Olympic Shifts - ChristianityToday.com
ChristianityToday.comOlympic ShiftsChristianityToday.com, IL - 8 hours agoAlthough most Christians see the West as the center of Christian activity and mission in the world, some are now predicting that Korea will soon outpace ...
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