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- Morning yet on Independence Day - The Punch
Morning yet on Independence DayThe Punch, Nigeria - 1 hour agoAs if the book was published just yesterday, it is currently swaying the market like a juvenile wind. Just last week, the book that has sold in excess of ...
- Go and Do - Joe Hill book event tonight in Exeter (Portsmouth Herald)
Local author Joe Hill will be at Water Street Bookstore, 125 Water St., Exeter, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 1 to celebrate the release of two of his books, the paperback edition of "20th Century Ghosts," as well as his newest book "Locke and Key." "20th...
- Peter Matthiessen, Marilynne Robinson among book award finalists - Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal
NEW YORK - Talk about second chances. Eighty-one-year old Peter Matthiessen has received a National Book Award nomination for "Shadow Country," an 890-page revision of a trilogy of novels he released in the 1990s. Others in the fiction category ...
- Homegrown Hip-Hop Festival focuses on Midwestern innovation (Isthmus)
This year, planners of the free, three-day fest hope to illustrate just how much the Midwest contributes to hip-hop across the country, from the small towns of Wisconsin to the clubs and record labels of New York and L.A.
- North Beach Poetry at Galway City Museum - Indymedia Ireland
Caroline Lynch won the Listowel Writers’ Week Best Poetry Collection prize in 2007and her first collection, Lost in the Gaeltacht, was published this year by Salmon Poetry. She obtained an MA in Writing from NUIG in 2007 and she lives in Galway ...
- Remembering 9/11 - Daily Home Online
It came from the hurt she knew was raging in New York that day, and the poem she wrote was one to help people heal and look for answers. Sandra Morris’s brother was still living in the city she grew up in when terrorists crashed two airliners into ...
- Off the shelf: Bookslut talks to Miriam Toews, meet Al Gore's ... - Nationalpost.com
The fine folks at Bookslut talk to novelist Miriam Toews about her new book The Flying Troutmans. Who's the world's best-selling author? Stephen King, J.K. Rowling? It's actually suspense writer James Patterson who apparently outsells John Grisham ...
- Hatless, and Aging on My Own Terms - New York Times
Hatless, and Aging on My Own TermsNew York Times, United States - 2 hours agoMaybe, if you’re female and middle-aged, someone well-intentioned sent you the poem, or the anthology containing it, for a birthday that included a zero. ...
- All-Male Romeo and Juliet Opens in DC Sept. 15 - Playbill.com
All-Male Romeo and Juliet Opens in DC Sept. 15Playbill.com, NY - 6 hours ago"Shakespeare was a writer of gorgeous poetry, but I believe that the love poetry in Romeo and Juliet is especially glorious in part because Shakespeare knew ...
- The Book on Cold War II - The Moscow Times
The Book on Cold War IIThe Moscow Times, Russia - 5 hours agoWarning: New Jersey doesn't figure in the actual novel, whose key point is that war settles things a lot faster than poetry. The hero is provoked into ...
- Darwish painted Palestinian dreams in his poems: translator (mehrnews.com)
TEHRAN, Sept. 19 (MNA) -- In his recent works, Darwish did not voice Palestinian dreams but he painted them through his verse, translator Musa Bidaj explained during the Darwish commemoration ceremony at the Honar Cultural Center.
- Send to Friend (Cape May County Herald)
The public is invited to “Poets of the Great War,” a presentation given by Robert F. Holden at 6 p.m. on Nov. 10 at the Main Branch of the Cape May County Library, 30 Mechanic St., Cape May Court House.
- What our critics are listening to (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Yma Sumac, Kindred the Family Soul and Mike Milito are among the musicians our critics are listening to this week.
- MAUREEN DOWD: Sarah's pompom palaver (The Indiana Gazette)
I had hoped I was finally done with acting as an interpreter for politicians whose relationship with the English language was tumultuous. There's W.'s gummy grammar, of course, like the classic, ``Is our children learning?''
- The judges were harsh, the verdict heartbreaking - Globe and Mail
The judges were harsh, the verdict heartbreakingGlobe and Mail, Canada - 3 hours agoIn her book Black Sun, Julia Kristeva writes, as if describing the two Paulas' fateful collision, of "the delights of reunion that a regressive daydream ...
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