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- Boozer Gets Grounded at O'Hare, Curses American Airlines: Books - Bloomberg
July 25 (Bloomberg) -- Bennie Ford is a failed poet, a failed father and a successful boozer. You wouldn't want to be stranded with him at an airport, though that's essentially what happens in Jonathan Miles's canny debut novel, ``Dear American ...
- Literary Calendar: July 26- Aug. 1 - The Gazette (Montreal)
Literary Calendar: July 26- Aug. 1The Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 4 hours agoDanielle Lafrance, Jesika Starnino, Jeffrey Mackie, Ilona Martonfi and Drew McKevitt read poetry at the Arts Café, 201 Fairmount Ave. ...
- Kudos: S.F. chowder house takes home prize for creative crab recipe (The San Francisco Examiner)
Hats - or should we say toques - off to San Francisco's Blue Mermaid Chowder House for earning honors in the 27th Annual Great Chowder Cook-off, held this summer in Newport, R.I.
- 93-year-old debut novelist gives home to friends from care homes - Guardian Unlimited
A raunchy novel with a dauntless heroine has transformed the lives of a 93-year-old author and three of her friends who were living in nursing homes. Pushed by her daughter-in-law, who found the manuscript and couldn't put it down, Lorna Page has ...
- Does Ramadan provide an opportunity to give up smoking? - Times of Oman
MUSCAT — Among the numerous other opportunities that the holy month of Ramadan provide to the mankind is the physical and spiritual cleansing. It gives courage to abandon certain undesirable habits including smoking which otherwise are difficult to ...
- Phosphorescence makes swimming at night magical (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Last week I went out to do a feature story on the rangers who live and work at Cayo Costa State Park. After a long day of interviews, I finally got to the beach after dark.
- Charlotte Kohler, at 99; was Va. Quarterly Review editor - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeCharlotte Kohler, at 99; was Va. Quarterly Review editorBoston Globe, United States - 9 hours agoKohler also was the first US editor to publish South African writer Nadine Gordimer, who later received the Nobel Prize for Literature. ...
- Tamil writer on Man Asia long list (New Kerala)
Rokkiah, who is a top official of the Tamil Nadu welfare department, was first published in the late '90s. She caught public imagination with her feminist poetry collections like "Oru Maalaiyum Innoru Maalaiyum" and "Pachai Thevathai".
- Cultural icon and actor Paul Newman, 83 - Honolulu Advertiser
Cultural icon and actor Paul Newman, 83Honolulu Advertiser, HI - 24 minutes agoHe was encouraged in the arts by an uncle who wrote poetry and by his mother, who taught him to appreciate music and books and shared details of theater ...
- Archive Artifact #2: Is Bush Actually the Devil Himself? 2002-2007 - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsArchive Artifact #2: Is Bush Actually the Devil Himself? 2002-2007OpEdNews, PA - 24 minutes ago... publish hundreds of freelance magazine and newspaper articles and political commentary columns along with 7 books of poetry and short fiction. ...
- Jordan- Farah Al Nas hits the airwaves (MENAFN)
Jordan- Farah Al Nas hits the airwaves
- Gang Starr keeps literate street poetry in hip-hop (Baltimore Sun)
They put out food for thought, not 'some fiction lifestyle' Album verbally pimp-slaps hip-hop imposters over Premier's jazz-inspired beats
- New Chief, Stat: Angela Bassett scrubs in to the cast of ER - Winston-Salem Journal
New Chief, Stat: Angela Bassett scrubs in to the cast of ERWinston-Salem Journal, NC - 12 minutes ago"I remember finding an album by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis reciting Langston Hughes poetry ... I could do that at my church." Still, Maria Scruggs-Weston, ...
- Connor Ramey: Soccer's global stranglehold (Orion)
Soccer is boring. There's no hitting or loud noises, aside from the broadcasters. And the players are scared babies. These are just a few excuses people give to justify their hatred of soccer, and I'll be honest, I used to be one of them. For about 10 years, I hated soccer.
- Golden words - Surrey Leader
Golden wordsSurrey Leader, Canada - 2 hours agoHis prior books include two novels, The Temptress Ariel and Selene's Guiding Light, a poetry collection called Walls and Headspace and the short story ...
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