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- Kiss and Make Up - Slate
The New York Times leads with uncommitted superdelegates fearing a prolonged battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Times says the Democratic heavies are "uncertain about who, if anyone, would step in to fill a leadership vacuum and ...
- South Africa: That Attack On Fellow Africans in South Africa (AllAfrica.com)
The recent spate of xenophobic display, atrocity and hideous attack on their African brothers by South Africans looking for survival is disappointing, discouraging and very barbaric.
- Nam Le's long, literary journey (San Francisco Chronicle)
In the opening story of "The Boat," a remarkable first collection by 29-year-old Nam Le, the main character shares a number of characteristics with the author. Both are writers named Nam, Vietnamese by birth and Australian by upbringing. Both have had a "...
- How the Italians Created Canada Book Review (The Cold Lake Sun)
Most educated Canadians have heard stories regarding the First Nations people and the French/English strife before and after Confederation. But a mostly untold story of our cultural mosaic is that of Italio-Canadians and their impact on this country of ours.
- A tribute to Grace Paley: a writer who found beauty in the everyday - Somerville News
A tribute to Grace Paley: a writer who found beauty in the everydaySomerville News, MA - 1 hour ago... a National Book Award. She published several volumes of poetry, was elected the first New York State Writer, and the Vermont Poet Laureate in (2003). ...
- Kate and Owen Split, the Hawaii Book and Music Festival - KGMB9
Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson have split after nearly two years of on-and-off dating. Pictures of Hudson sporting a diamond ring last week in Boston sparked rumors of an engagement, but the pair has broken up, reports People. The ring, it turns out ...
- Words on Water goes musical - Miramichi Leader
Words on Water goes musicalMiramichi Leader, Canada - 2 hours agoLee Thomspon has been part of the Words on Water for a few years, bringing with him his short stories and poetry. Those who knew him in the audience said ...
- State of the arts - Guardian Unlimited
Misfits, artists, loners and stoners have been fleeing north from Manhattan for decades, looking for a slower pace of life away from the urban jungle. Some make it all the way to Canada but most city emigres stay in the small towns and villages of ...
- Steve Reilly column: Meinke makes it worth a read and meet - Charlotte Sun-Herald
Peter Meinke is a writer like writers wish they could be -- well, at least I do. He's someone who can be described as fluent in creating both top-shelf poetry and prose. A quick Internet search of various sites tells how his collection of short ...
- Secondhand Wonderland: The World of the Used Book - PopMatters
Secondhand Wonderland: The World of the Used BookPopMatters, IL - 1 hour agoThe Book Barn was at the ass-end of Main Street in Joplin, Missouri, a street name that would be ironic if weren’t so sad. Everything along that stretch of ...
- Damudzo! Thou shouldn't be living at this hour - The Zimbabwean
Damudzo! Thou shouldn't be living at this hourThe Zimbabwean, Africa - 2 hours ago"It will be a stage adaptation of his works, especially The House of Hunger, Black Sunlight and some poetry," aspiring playwright Dobrota Pucherova said. ...
- Motherhood comes naturally, mothering doesn’t DAWN hENWOOD - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Motherhood comes naturally, mothering doesn’t DAWN hENWOODTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 3 hours agoUnfortunately for our culture, we’ve limited most of our descriptions of motherhood to the trite poetry of Mother’s Day cards. ...
- Max Mendelsohn's "Ode to Marbles" (Seattle Times)
I have always enjoyed poems that celebrate the small pleasures of life. Here Max Mendelsohn, 12, of Weston, Mass., tells us of the joy he...
- Shameless plug of the day: Disquietude Theatre Company - Twin Cities Planet
Shameless plug of the day: Disquietude Theatre CompanyTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 4 hours ago... Mistral wrote a great deal of tender poetry for children, but her work also delves in the darkest caverns of the human soul in her poems of death, ...
- Peace, Love and the Psychedelic Sixties from the Sheldon Museum of Art (Art Daily)
Henry C. Pearson, Yengongora, color etching, 1965, UNL-F.M. Hall Collection. LINCOLN, NE.- Peace, Love, and the Psychedelic Sixties, an exhibition drawn from of artworks in the Sheldon Museum of Art collection that were created in the 1960s, opened recently.
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