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- Booker winner Adiga ready with second novel (rediff.com)
Enjoying the spotlight after winning the 2008 Man Booker prize for his debut novel, young Indian novelist Arvind Adiga says his second novel is "almost done" but declined to give details about the upcoming book. The 33-year-old journalist based in Mumbai also rejected suggestions that his award-winning book The White Tiger was overly critical of Indian society saying that he had intended to be ...
- GCSE poem dropped over knife fear (BBC News)
An exam board asks schools to destroy a GCSE poetry anthology because one poem refers to knife violence.
- Kahil El ‘Zabar Quartet at the Velvet Lounge, November 10th - Jazz Police
Kahil El ‘Zabar Quartet at the Velvet Lounge, November 10thJazz Police, MN - 24 minutes agoHe has also published a book of poetry, Mis'taken Brilliance, and he tailors clothing both for his band and for others. From 1996 to 1999, ...
- Literary Calendar (Washington Post)
10 A.M. Sept. 8 is International Literacy Day, and to mark the occasion, children's author Sharon M. Draper reads from and discusses her young adult novel Copper Sun (a tale of the slave trade) at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. To RSVP, contact the International Reading...
- "There Was a Man of Double Deed" The unhinged reason of an anonymous ... - Slate
This anonymous poem exemplifies how poetry can join reason and unreason, method and wildness, so effectively that the opposites become part of a single process. The links and repetitions seem governed partly by rhyme and partly by some obsessive ...
- Things to do this week and beyond - Salt Lake Tribune
Things to do this week and beyondSalt Lake Tribune, United States - Aug 14, 2008Feel free to bring your own salsa and enter a contest. For information and to download entry forms, visit www.wasatchgardens.org. ...
- Film Preservation Festival to focus on American Indian movies - NewsOK.com
Film Preservation Festival to focus on American Indian moviesNewsOK.com, OK - 22 minutes agoLeslie Gee, Screenwriter and published writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and manager of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s Tribal Heritage Project. ...
- Celebrated poet to speak for reading series - University of Washington
Poet Jean Valentine, the Visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23. The talk — part of The Writing Program's Fall Reading Series — is free ...
- Finlandia Prize shortlist does not include Jari Tervo's Troikka - Helsingin Sanomat
Finlandia Prize shortlist does not include Jari Tervo's TroikkaHelsingin Sanomat, Finland - 1 hour agoShe has been a candidate with three different publishers, and now most recently with the new publishing house of Siltala, for whom this is a first Finlandia ...
- Lafayette musician, poet Zachary Richard to receive honorary doctorate - Monroe News Star
Lafayette musician, poet Zachary Richard to receive honorary doctorateMonroe News Star, LA - 20 hours agoBATON ROUGE – Zachary Richard, whose blend of traditional Cajun, blues and rock music and his poetry have earned fame and recognition in the US, ...'No findings' in ULM review Monroe News Starall 2 news articles
- Bonnie's Book Bytes: Billy Collins's "Ballistics" (The Mass Media)
The term "ballistics" doesn't come up often in conversation, save those discussions on missiles or today's prevalence of warfare. An even better discussion on ballistics would revolve around Billy Collins's new book of poetry called "Ballistics." As we well know, a ballistic missile is a projectile that is controlled on ascent and falls freely on descent.
- CST scores the gifted 'Amadeus' - Chicago Sun-Times
The sly little joke at the heart of "Amadeus," Peter Shaffer's popular 1979 play, is that despite its title, Mozart is not really the star. Shaffer crafted the play's most flamboyant role for Antonio Salieri, Mozart's nemesis -- the powerful court ...
- Baseball lover writes about the boys of summer - Ashland Daily Tidings
You don't have to love baseball to love baseball books. Just as Ray Kinsella found the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson in his Iowa cornfield, so skilled writers find poetry in the diamond's symmetry and the unforgiving mathematics of balls, strikes and ...
- Sculpting a futuristic Ferré - International Herald Tribune
Sculpting a futuristic FerréInternational Herald Tribune, France - 4 hours agoThe other option was long floaty dresses, or a soft liquid jersey skirt under a tunic top. Armani called that "poetry in motion."
- 'Patti Smith' misses chance to sing her praises - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
'Patti Smith' misses chance to sing her praisesThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 9 hours agoAnd then one day in the '70s she had a friend with a guitar back up her poetry reading -- and her own songs of innocence and experience began in earnest. ...
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