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- Louise Erdrich: Secrets in the Indian file (Independent)
Of all the fictional hamlets American writers have planted, from William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, the most complex, luminous place yet might be a little town called Argus, North Dakota. Since she first introduced the town in Love Medicine (1984), Louise Erdrich has gone back to it continually, conjuring the reservation it abuts, the love affairs which ...
- An artist on the brink - Baltimore Sun
An artist on the brinkBaltimore Sun, United States - 6 hours agoOr he could have actively courted financial ruin by turning his pen to, gasp, writing poetry. It will give nothing away to say that the artist traveled down ...
- The opinion pages: mostly a man's world - San Francisco Gate
When it comes to the opinion pages of some of the most influential American newspapers, it's far too often a man's world. One reason for the disparity is obvious: Women are still breaking through glass ceilings in business, government and academia ...
- Women dominate fiction list for Montana NZ Book Awards - New Zealand Herald
Women dominate fiction list for Montana NZ Book AwardsNew Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 10 hours agoThe poetry category is also an all-female contest, with Janet Charman, Johanna Aitchison and Fiona Farrell the finalists. Ms Freeman says the judges were ...Attached: Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2008 finalists booklet Scoop.co.nz (press release)Debut novel shortlisted for Montana Stuff.co.nzBook award finalists announced Radio New ZealandNew Zealand Heraldall 10 news articles
- Urbana man saw citizen diplomacy at work on recent travels (The Champaign News-Gazette)
URBANA – Chungliang Al Huang describes himself as Chinese-born and American through and through. Immersed in both cultures, he insists that we Americans, as well as the rest of the world, need not fear China. Rather, we need to understand and accept it in new ways. One of the best, he says, is citizen diplomacy.
- Secrets and lives (Salon.com)
Sebastian Barry may be the most exhilarating prose stylist in Irish fiction. His new book weaves together strands from Ireland's past -- and his own.
- The World's Greatest Moms - Thousand Oaks Acorn
The World's Greatest MomsThousand Oaks Acorn, USA - 30 minutes agoShe still writes poetry and essays today, at 94 years of age, and she still lives in a house by herself, cooks her meals and does most of her own shopping ...
- Why I write: Bernardine Evaristo (Guardian Unlimited)
The author of Soul Babes on her love of Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, and why giving library books as presents is not necessarily a good idea
- The Hold Steady / McCarren Park Pool - Metromix
The Hold Steady / McCarren Park PoolMetromix, IL - 14 hours agoBoys and girls in America may have a sad time together, as the Kerouac-inspired Hold Steady lyric goes, but that's not the case at their shows. ...
- Teens take a stand against human trafficking - Twin Cities Planet
Teens take a stand against human traffickingTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - Jul 17, 2008.Ideally, I would love to have someone involved at a young age and become the next advocate or lawyer who helps victims …It’sa huge problem. ...
- Words of mouth - guardian.co.uk
Words of mouthguardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours ago... and incident, but not poetry. Here is Edward Thomas, chastening the Belgian symbolist Maeterlinck: "Anything, however small, may make a poem; nothing, ...A pure thrush word guardian.co.ukall 2 news articles
- High school students get taste of college life (Kane County Chronicle)
AURORA – Waubonsie Valley student Brea Sims didn’t know what to expect as she gingerly touched the liver of the dissected fetal pig.
- Sunday's agenda, July 6 - Miami Herald
Items contributed must be received at least two days in advance at Calendar Desk, The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Fifth Floor Newsroom, Miami, FL 33132-1693. To submit items online, go to MiamiHerald.com, click on Calendar of Events and click Add ...
- Community datebook (7/15/08) (Anchorage Daily News)
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- Five For Your Shelf - Esquire
Five For Your ShelfEsquire - 3 hours agoThese June 2001 picks include poetry, a deadly race and a different kind of picture book. THE PROVING GROUND (Little, Brown, $25) is first-time author G. ...
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