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- Popular Authors Sign On For National Book Festival - WJLA
Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among the 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival. The Library of Congress is organizing the festival on September 27th on the National Mall. The event was started by first lady Laura ...
- Mehmet Murat Somer: Prophet Murders (RainbowNetwork.com)
The Prophet Murders is the first title in Mehmet Murat Somer's Hop-Çiki-Yaya series of crime novels. Written in the first person, the stories are told from the point of view of a glamorous transvestite club-owner in Istanbul who also happens to do a little bit of amateur detective work on the side.
- Music can be path to better learning in language and math - Alaska Journal of Commerce
WASHINGTON (AP) - The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: An educator with a passion for making school fun. Michael Bitz won a national competition with his idea for ...
- Erudite yet under-rehearsed (The Globe and Mail)
Shakespeare's Sonnets can inspire obsession and Simon Callow is as dedicated to them as any
- Big school (Guardian Unlimited)
'Grown-ups' is here to be read ironically, the mater of our heroine, Kitty, being less stable than her creator's weight. Marina is the kind of mother who insists on wearing vintage chiffon dresses to the school playground and falling head-over-killer-heels for hopeless men.
- Film fest celebrates its 10th year with plenty of edge - Wicked Local Truro
Film fest celebrates its 10th year with plenty of edgeWicked Local Truro, MA - 39 minutes agoJosh Peck is revelatory as a teenage dealer, a virgin and striver who turns to a shrink in crisis (Ben Kingsley) for fatherly advice, then falls in love ...
- Miami-Dade Mother's Day Specials - MiamiHerald.com
Miami-Dade Mother's Day SpecialsMiamiHerald.com, FL - May 7, 2008Baleen: Hallelujah Anyway Brunch features poetry readings, raffle and a buffet; noon-3:30 pm, 4 Grove Isle, Coconut Grove; $95, $50 kids 12 and under. ...
- Self-publishing seminar held - Asheville Citizen-Times
ASHEVILLE – North Carolina writer Karen Dodd invites local writers of poetry, family stories, memoirs and novels to an evening discussion on self-publishing at 7 p.m. today at the Corner Oak Manor Bed & Breakfast, 53 St. Dunstans Road
- Own a piece of history by Bob Dylan - IC Wales
HE once said he considered himself a poet first and a musician second, but a different side of Bob Dylan’s artistic talent will go on display and sale in Wales next weekend. An extremely rare collection of the star’s paintings will go on show in ...
- Semifinalists vie for spot on the 2008 Madison National Poetry Slam team (Isthmus)
Many of the city's top spoken word performers will compete for one of five spots on the Madison National Poetry Slam team on Friday at the Inn on the Park. This five-person team will go on to represent Madison and compete with more than 80 other teams that will converge in town for the 2008 National Poetry Slam in August. Dasha Kelly believes Wisconsin has a unique opportunity to help shape the ...
- Take three days to savor wildflowers - Salt Lake Tribune
Take three days to savor wildflowersSalt Lake Tribune, United States - 5 hours agoAt 7:30 pm, there will be cowboy poetry by Phil Kennington. Also on July 19, you can tour the Huber Grove from 10 to 11 am Call 435-654-1791 for more ...
- Reviving the vanishing voice of verse (Cape Cod Times)
WASHINGTON — The judges were primed and the audience expectant. Then 16-year-old Shawntay Henry walked onstage.
- Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW - The Daily Star
Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOWThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 3 hours agoThere are a lot of aspiring Bangladeshi poets here in Toronto and there was poetry reading and songs at the cultural function. ...
- BG Woman's Club honors young writers (Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune)
The Bowling Green Woman’s Club recently honored local students for their writing efforts for the club’s 26th annual Creative Writing...
- In the Blast Zone examines Mount St. Helens' recovery - Crosscut
In the Blast Zone examines Mount St. Helens' recoveryCrosscut, WA - 9 hours agoShe served as the Denver/Boulder AV Club Editor of The Onion from 2000 until the 2006, and her book reviews appear in the Rocky Mountain News and the Daily ...
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