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- Pulitzer poet Trethewey to appear at Miss. university - Biloxi Sun Herald
HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey will hold a reading next month at the University of Southern Mississippi. Trethewey will read from her award-winning book, "Native Guard," Sept. 3. She'll be the first author ...
- Close to home : Take time to indulge - New Zealand Herald
Pamper yourself at Pawhaoa Bay Lodge in the Bay of Islands. A spring package is available until October 30 and includes two nights' accommodation, pre-dinner drinks and brunch and dinner. It is $700 per couple, $650 per couple for groups of four or ...
- Three authors come to Austin - two of them live and in person (Austin American-Statesman)
Philip Roth's live "appearance" (via video) at the Ransom Center's Prothro Theater on Sept. 16 was the latest attempt by the publishing industry to promote a major writer's new novel without sending him out on tour, presumably because he doesn't wish to go. Last year, Ian McEwan's publisher put together a short film — something like a music video, but promoting a book, not a song — for his ...
- Guest List: Ponytail (Pitchfork)
Ponytail's Jeremy Hyman, Ken Seeno, Molly Siegel, and Dustin Wong, whose diverse tastes result in a number of disparate song recommendations, nevertheless all seem to agree on the best two TV shows of the past few years. [Interview: Tyler Grisham] read more
- Wednesday, Sep 3rd - San Francisco Bay Guardian
Wednesday, Sep 3rdSan Francisco Bay Guardian, CA - 26 minutes agoIf there's a not-quite-so-inspirational side to this tale, Marsh and company have conspicuously left it on the cutting room floor. (1:34) Smith Rafael. ...
- Book Festival: Reviews: Today's Satire Will Be Tomorrow's Documentary - RedOrbit
Book Festival: Reviews: Today's Satire Will Be Tomorrow's DocumentaryRedOrbit, TX - 12 hours agoHe hopes his book will so something to "recomplicate reality", restoring some of its "poetry and mystery". But using fiction to interact with the issues of ...
- Nadine Chapman: Professor and mentor - Whitworthian
Nadine Chapman: Professor and mentorWhitworthian, WA - 42 minutes agoAfter Chapman passed away, McIntyre submitted six poems to the twice-yearly journal, Field, which publishes contemporary poetry. “I made a promise to her to ...
- Columbus students remember tragedy (The Deming Headlight)
To remember the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Mrs. Kennon's third graders at Columbus Elementary School this year crystallized their thoughts in writing, with illustration, poetry and in Spanish for later translation.
- Life-changing teacher gets surprise thank you - News & Observer
Life-changing teacher gets surprise thank youNews & Observer, NC - 1 hour agoShe introduced Rigsbee to poetry. And soon the little girl was writing her own poems about stars and the seasons, which Warnecke praised. ...
- The ethereal world of radio poetry - Guardian Blogs
Listening on Sunday to a radio playing Ezra Pound's wartime radio broadcasts of propaganda and poetry is an eerie experience, the original broadcasts - somehow amplified in the present - echoing uncannily in my mind. My thoughts were already turned ...
- An Orphan Becomes a Novice Grave Robber and Unearths Some Surprises (New York Times)
Hannah Tinti?s debut novel is an American Dickensian tale with touches of Harry Potterish whimsy, along with a macabre streak of spooky New England history.
- The BA Festival of Science: 6-11 September 2008 - Northwest Regional Development Agency (press release)
The BA Festival of Science: 6-11 September 2008Northwest Regional Development Agency (press release), UK - 1 hour agoSee popular TV presenter and author Professor Adam Hart-Davis, in a show for all the family. And why not go green with ex-Colonel Dick Strawbridge, ...
- A forgotten voice - Times Online
On December 11, Alexander Solzhenitsyn will be eighty-one. He survived Civil War, World War and Cold War; he suffered Stalin's camps and Brezhnev's repressions; he fought cancer when exiled without possessions in remote Kazakhstan, and resisted ...
- Bringing the past alive, strings attached - Age
T O LIVE in Venice, agrees Paolo Cognolato, is to live in a museum. Whereas, in the heyday of the Venetian republic, 300,000 people were crammed into the city's alleyways, only 50,000 people act as live-in curators and hosts, servicing 100,000 ...
- Tariq Ali's top 10 reads - guardian.co.uk
Tariq Ali's top 10 readsguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoNights and Horses of the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arab Literature by Robert Irwin Satire, erotic poetry by Arab women writers and many other joys ...
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