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- Authors grieve over David Foster Wallace's apparent suicide - Daily Camera
Authors grieve over David Foster Wallace's apparent suicideDaily Camera, CO - 1 hour ago"He was a wonderful writer, a generous friend, and a singular talent." A native of Ithaca, NY, Wallace was often compared to Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo ...
- Bostonist Book Review: Figures and Figurations (Bostonist)
Figures and Figurations is the second most recent husband/wife book published by New Directions (the other being Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop), and it's a worthwhile read: Marie Jose Paz made Cornell-styled collages for little over a decade, and then Octavio Paz wrote poems to, about, and for them, twelve in all. The result is this book, which is coming ...
- Leggi » - Indymedia Italia
Fuck The System by George Metesky Transcriber's notes: This booklet was made sometime in the late 1960's, likely the summer of '67. While Abbie Hoffman claims that it was written by George Metesky, and this may of course be true, the careful reader ...
- Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in ... - Times Online
Times OnlineStreet Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in ...Times Online, UK - 1 hour agoFor your, er, poetry. It is from this implausible position that Kapka Kassabova's bitterly funny, brilliantly clever journey through her childhood and her ...
- McCain's Magic Formula? - Slate
Semi- amnesty in St. Paul: I asked Sen. Graham how soon, in his first term, President McCain would declare the borders secure (and move on to revive "comprehensive immigration reform"). Graham said "We'll know it when we see it," but emphasized that ...
- An Exhibit In Norwich Takes Root - TheDay
An Exhibit In Norwich Takes RootTheDay, CT - 4 hours agoAs of last week, Sherman had “collected” gardens of Chinese, Greek and African American traditions. She hopes to add gardens of Indian, Eastern European and ...
- Shostakovich gripping after uninspired start - Cincinnati.com
Shostakovich gripping after uninspired startCincinnati.com, OH - 1 hour agoIn the first half, Parker’s reading of Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody” pitted cascades of virtuosities against moments of pure poetry in these 24 variations. ...
- Putting Your Best Foot Forward (New York Times)
Willard Spiegelman, writing in In Character, makes a case for pedestrianism as the poetry of a city?s experience.
- Arts Agency Chairman Is Moving On - Washington Post
Washington TimesArts Agency Chairman Is Moving OnWashington Post, United States - 2 hours agoOther initiatives during Gioia's tenure included the Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest, an activity for middle and high school students; ...NEA Chairman Dana Gioia to leave in 2009 The Associated PressGioia Leaves NEA After Changing Debate Over Arts Funding New York Sunall 91 news articles
- Norma Adams-Wade: Authors to be on hand for book fair (WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth)
Nearly 40 local and national authors will discuss and autograph their books at the sixth-annual Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair and Arts Festival Aug. 29-31. Most activities are free and will be at the African American Museum at Fair Park and nearby neighborhood sites.
- The 'Sex and the City' prop you WILL see in stores - Popwatch
Well, it was only a matter of time. One New York minute after word spread that fans of the Sex and the City movie were logging onto Amazon.com in hopes of purchasing Love Letters of Great Men — the fake book highlighted in the film — publisher ...
- with a lecture and reading entitled, "Layered Spaces: On Recent ... - Newspaper Tree
with a lecture and reading entitled, "Layered Spaces: On Recent ...Newspaper Tree, TX - 1 hour ago*Kristin Dykstra is a translator of Latin American poetry and co-editor of the bilingual, international journal, Mandorla: Nueva Escritura De Las Americas. ...
- Entertainment Calendar: 07/18/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Items for this calendar must be received by the Record-Eagle at least two weeks in advance. All calendars are published on a space available basis. Information may be mailed to Entertainment Calendar, Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685-0632; faxed to 946-8632; or e-mail sbeach@record-eagle.com .
- Still life: sitting for Lucian Freud (Guardian Unlimited)
I've been sitting for Lucian for around 10 years now; I visit him every morning, so it's part of my life. It's a different sense of timing to anything else I do. The stillness is very therapeutic although you can't shut off completely.
- Greater community calendar of events for Sept. 20,, 2008 - Jamestown Sun
Greater community calendar of events for Sept. 20,, 2008Jamestown Sun, ND - 5 hours agoTo celebrate the First Amendment, participants will share speeches, poetry, music, artwork and more. The event is free and open to the public.
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