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- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: Goodbye to Berlin (Independent)
Paul Verhaeghen has won this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his novel Omega Minor, published by Dalkey Archive Press. His victory with this exuberant, pyrotechnic, toweringly ambitious epic is a suitably mould-breaking event. To begin with, the Belgian-born cognitive psychologist translated his own work into English from the Dutch. (He has taught in the US since 1997, and is ...
- Singer Natalie Merchant edges into Pops collaboration - Boston Globe
Natalie Merchant was nursing a cold when we rang her up earlier this week to chat about her EdgeFest appearances with the Boston Pops next week. The former 10,000 Maniacs vocalist vowed she'd be well in time for the gigs, which pair the orchestra ...
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Authorial Intent - Gawker
You know how all Raymond Carver 's short stories are like, "We sat in the kitchen. It was raining. I poured another scotch. I drank it. She sat on the chair, drinking. We drank together a while"? Apparently they weren't always so minimalist. In fact ...
- All together now - Times Online
All together nowTimes Online, UK - 22 minutes agoOne involved learning lines of poetry; another entailed going to find Gretel (aka Curtis, who spent the whole festival acting in character) and asking her ...
- Johnson also led way to Confederation - Miramichi Leader
Johnson also led way to ConfederationMiramichi Leader, Canada - 1 hour agoWhile there he dazzled the public and the members with his poetry presentations and his dazzling ice skating performances. But Johnson was tired and ...
- Bigger BITE to boost tourism - Khaleej Times
Bigger BITE to boost tourismKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 1 hour agoFOR the second successive year, a poetry evening will be held on May 19 to revive traditional poetry and honour Bahraini poets who enjoy special care and ...
- 'Can You Imagine': Author Shares His Life Stories Through New ... - eMediaWorld.com Newswire Press Release Distribution Service (press release)
'Can You Imagine': Author Shares His Life Stories Through New ...eMediaWorld.com Newswire Press Release Distribution Service (press release), AZ - 7 hours agoAuthorHouse is the premier book publisher (http://www.authorhouse.com) for emerging, self-published (http://www.authorhouse.com/GetPublished/FAQ.aspx) ...
- Summer camp a hit at Seekonk’s Aitken School - Providence Journal
Providence JournalSummer camp a hit at Seekonk’s Aitken SchoolProvidence Journal, RI - 5 hours agoAlready on the drawing board are courses in martial arts, Lego building, reading and poetry, and sculpture, Wilbert said. Organizers hope to boost ...
- In Praise of Vulgarity - Reason.com
Who will ever forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another was abandoned by Taliban soldiers, crowds of happy men lined up to get their first legal shave in ...
- Praxis Language Launches FrenchPod - A New French Educational Podcast ... - Forbes
SHANGHAI, China, May 12 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Praxis Language today announced the launch of their highly anticipated new website, http://www.frenchpod.com . FrenchPod is the third online language service to be offered by Praxis Language following ...
- Cleveland Museum of Art names new chief curator - Cleveland Plain Dealer
C. Griffith Mann, director of the curatorial division of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, will take up his new duties as chief curator of the Cleveland Museum of Art in September. The Cleveland Museum of Art has appointed a new chief curator to ...
- Kate Rushin To Read Poetry In Willimantic - Hartford Courant
Poet Kate Rushin is featured tonight as the Poetry in the Park series continues in Willimantic. She will dedicate her reading to Judith Doyle and the late Alexander "Sandy" Taylor, who founded Curbstone Press, which organizes the outdoor poetry ...
- Rochester poets show poetry is not for sissies (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Forget Stephen King. You want bone-chilling violence, blood-curdling revenge, read a poem.
- COLUMN: Leyde: Murphey follows way of the West - Thecalifornian.com
Michael Martin Murphey isn't shy about sharing what his priorities are: The cowboy way, restoring the American prairie, longhorn cattle and preserving our Western heritage. The singer-songwriter has made a career and a lifestyle working at those ...
- Summer Writing Camp taking applications - Muskogee Daily Phoenix
The camp serves students entering fifth-through eighth-grades. Students will experience a variety of mental and physical challenges each day along with writing poetry, stories and plays.
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