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- A sad, true story that's as strong as its subject - Boston Globe
Alexandra Fuller spent her youth in Africa, and her first two books --2001's "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood" and 2004's "Scribbling the Cat: Travels With an African Soldier" -- reflect that upbringing. Fuller, having moved ...
- British mysteries, Greek drama - Boston Globe
If Jane Eyre is one of literature's most enduring heroines, then the unnamed narrator of Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" is surely Eyre's modern successor, another innocent who enters the great house of the brooding master-husband. Yet the two novels ...
- WH Auden (Guardian Unlimited)
'Why do you want to write poetry?' If the young man answers, 'I have important things I want to say,' then he is not a poet. If he answers, 'I like hanging around words listening to what they say,' then maybe he is going to be a poet.'
- Zimbabwe: Leonard Zhakata Headlines 'One Love' Peace Festival (AllAfrica.com)
LEONARD Zhakata and other artists were yesterday expected to perform at a festival dubbed One Love Arts Festival, which calls for peace and development in Zimbabwe.
- Thabo Mbeki's downfall: a Shakespearean tragedy - PR Inside
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Thabo Mbeki is fond of packing his speeches with passages from Hamlet and Macbeth, so it is perhaps fitting that his downfall had all the hallmarks of a Shakespearean tragedy. Mbeki devoted his life to the African ...
- Symphony at the Shore a high note of weekend activities - News.com.au
SYMPHONY at the Shore is another Brisbane Festival open-air free concert treat on Sunday. Some of Australia's finest musicians present classical music's greatest hits, including Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Mozart. The Brisbane Symphony Orchestra ...
- Dozens answer call to show Inland writers' talent - Press-Enterprise
Dozens answer call to show Inland writers' talentPress-Enterprise, CA - 2 hours ago"What it's done for me is to try to write outside poetry, which I've never really done." He was inspired by an octogenarian, Wally Longshore, who lives in a ...
- Mashpee soldier killed in Afghanistan - WHDH-TV
MASHPEE, Mass. -- A second Mashpee soldier has died in a week in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Cape Cod Times reported Sunday that Army Pfc. Paul Conlon died Friday morning in Afghanistan when a roadside bomb blew his vehicle. His mother ...
- 'We will join like two rivers' - Ha'aretz
'We will join like two rivers'Ha'aretz, Israel - 53 minutes agoThey reopen the interpretation of his poetry and of Israeli culture in general." Gold got to know Amichai about 20 years ago, when she wrote her Ph.D. on ...
- New Christian Website Departs From Norms, Offers Something Different - HNN Huntingtonnews.net
New Christian Website Departs From Norms, Offers Something DifferentHNN Huntingtonnews.net, USA - 1 hour agoTowards this end, Hardesty offers his visitors food for thought in the form of poetry as well as audio (and soon video) teachings on various Christian ...
- Laureate post is 'quite a ride' - BBC News
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has said reports he had writers block because of "bad communication" with the Queen were "patently ridiculous". Motion told the BBC that comments he made at a London arts festival earlier this week had been crudely ...
- Commentary: Johnny Gurkhas and British Tommies---Some Are More ... - American Chronicle
Commentary: Johnny Gurkhas and British Tommies---Some Are More ...American Chronicle, CA - 3 hours agoLulu.com: Im Schatten des Himalaya (book of poems in German), Through Nepalese Eyes (travelgue), Katmandu, Katmandu (poetry and prose anthology by Nepalese ...
- Snowbombing 2008 - NME
It might only take an hour and a half to get there by plane, but Mayrhofen is a mighty long way from home. When NME arrives at the ski resort – which doesn’t seem to have had a makeover since 1972 – the town is awash with dark tales of girls ...
- Q! Film Festival: Where cinematic fabulousness rules - Jakarta Post
Q! Film Festival: Where cinematic fabulousness rulesJakarta Post, Indonesia - 3 hours agoKicking the QFF off to a romantic start is the opening film, French musical Les Chansons d'Amour (Love Songs). Featuring an all-singing cast including Louis ...
- Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards - 코리아타임즈
Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards코리아타임즈, South Korea - 5 hours agoThis annual competition accepts translated works of Korean literature in two categories: fiction and poetry. Applicants can choose from any works of a ...
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