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- Those the gods would destroy (Toronto Star)
Anything can happen in a work of fiction, and the British novelist Jeanette Winterson is one writer who's never been shy about exploiting that. Realism is not her style; she's written that her favourite reading contains "a large dollop of the unlikely and the miraculous."
- Remember When: Little things can alter the careers we follow (Vero Press Journal)
In the spring of 1958, my roommate and I were student teaching at Sunrise Junior High School in Fort Lauderdale. She came home one night with the news that we were going to usher for the play "Bus Stop" at the Palm Beach Playhouse that weekend. The star was one of her high school friends on his way to Hollywood to stunt double for Marlon Brando.
- Nobel Prize Politics:Chinua Achebe, a shameful omission — Annie ... - Vanguard
Nobel Prize Politics:Chinua Achebe, a shameful omission — Annie ...Vanguard, Nigeria - 2 hours agoAs one of the earliest scholars of African prose fiction, and the twentieth-century English poetry, Gagiano’s foray into African writing has become a ...
- American beauty - The National
American beautyThe National, United Arab Emirates - 3 hours agoIn Frank’s pictures, London streets became deliberately grainy and dark, a much more impressionistic stroke than could be seen in LIFE magazine at that time ...
- 'I used to feel like people were trampling over me to get to my ... - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk'I used to feel like people were trampling over me to get to my ...guardian.co.uk, UK - 45 minutes agoBefore 2003, though she had written a PhD thesis on Dickens, a volume of poetry, some essays, and two well-received novels, she was still best known as Mrs ...
- 'Saffron King' finds his niche in NY City - Longview Daily News
'Saffron King' finds his niche in NY CityLongview Daily News, WA - 11 hours agoWhile he was studying for his master’s degree in New York City, Sharifi focused on mystical Iranian poetry. He found food-related passages dotted with ...
- John Betjeman’s muse: so you are the one, Miss Joan Hunter Dunn (Times Online)
John Betjeman’s muse, who died this month, was long thought to be fictional, until Peter Crookston, of The Sunday Times, found her. Here he remembers the golden girl of suburbia
- David Mamet turns to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in ‘Redbelt’ - Kung Fu Cinema
David Mamet turns to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in ‘Redbelt’Kung Fu Cinema, WA - 1 hour agoMMA fans may wonder how an award-winning writer of Mamet’s stature known to some for his poetry and essays might handle the hard-biting action and culture ...
- The Police find strange harmony in creative tension - Dallas Morning News
The Police find strange harmony in creative tensionDallas Morning News, TX - 10 minutes ago"The rivalry wasn't between bands, more between songwriters who had different values: One was about the hook, the other was about the depth of the poetry, ...
- 10 movie picks from the director of the festival - The Daily Planet
10 movie picks from the director of the festivalThe Daily Planet, CO - 23 minutes ago“As a filmmaker, [Scher] manages to transform everyday phenomena such as winter and water, things we tend to take for granted, into visual poetry,” ...
- Bill Murray's divorce no joke; Clay Aiken becomes a dad from a ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Bill Murray and wife Jennifer in happier times. Live, from Charleston, it's ... an ugly divorce! The wife of comedian-turned-Oscar-nominated-actor Bill Murray made some nasty accusations in filing for divorce. Jennifer Murphy is claiming that he is ...
- Film: British indie fight back - CITY A.M.
CITY A.M.Film: British indie fight backCITY A.M., UK - 16 hours ago... poetry. But if you can hold faith with those, Maybury’s stylistic invention, the first-rate performances and a powerful, overarching sense of romantic ...
- East Bay Events (Berkeley Daily Planet)
“Saying No to Torture” with Fr. Louie Vitale, at 7:30 p.m. at First Congregational Church of Berkeley, 2345 Channing Way. Free, donations appreciated. Sponsored by Pace e Bene and Bay Area Religious Campaign Against Torture. 499-0537.
- Child merits same care Kennedy got - Toledo Blade
Child merits same care Kennedy gotToledo Blade, OH - 4 hours agoHe was the first in our family to go to college, and he went on the GI Bill. I was drafted into the war in Vietnam and served only for three years. ...
- Bag lady, poet - and my granny - Daily Mail
Daily MailBag lady, poet - and my grannyDaily Mail, UK - Apr 17, 2008At home in rural Kent, Joan wrote reams of poetry, sent her work to Woolf, was invited to tea and launched upon the literary circuit. ...
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