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- Buffett on Edwards: Sue! - Slate
MoveOn, NeverMind: "MoveOn now calls their being listed [alongside AT&T and PG&E] as a sponsor 'a mistake' (they're apparently sponsoring an event at the same time), and swears they're going to get their name taken off the publicity for the event ...
- Whispering to animals - Sun and Press
Carolyn Georgariou used to be a stockbroker in California. Now, she considers herself a "dog whisperer," or animal behaviorist, and lives in Binghamton. Although it might not be your average career jump, Georgariou always knew she wanted to help dogs ...
- Glossing over it: homoeroticism in Shakespeare's sonnets - Guardian Unlimited
Shakespeare's lyrical poetry has long been considered marginal to his plays - is it because he addressed his poems to a man? In the latest exclusive online essay from the London Review of Books, Stephen Orgel examines how scholars over the centuries ...
- Crossing barrios to promote peace - San Diego Union Tribune
Crossing barrios to promote peaceSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - Sep 18, 2008He protested the violence through poetry and tried to catch the attention of others through his artwork. At 16, he joined the End Barrio Warfare movement, ...
- Galgut delivers the goods (Mail and Guardian)
The Impostor Damon Galgut (Penguin) Jane Rosenthal Damon Galgut's last novel, The Good Doctor , was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003 and won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize.His new novel, easily as good, is set in some nameless dorp within easy reach of Port Elizabeth, which conforms to the usual pattern of such places with a farmer's co-op and a coloured/black woongebied (location).
- New indie publishers speak out optimistically in the face of decline - Los Angeles Times Blogs
From some quarters, it looks like publishing is in big trouble . But that's not enough to slow down editors with vision and inspiration. At the Emerging Writers Network , Dan Wickett interviews seven new independent publishers: Ellipsis Press , Hotel ...
- A look at the best books for fall - ScrippsNews
Fall is shaping up as the busiest season for new releases ever. The list of upcoming fiction is both broad and deep, particularly in new titles by old names. Here's the list, starting with a very familiar name: "The Widows of Eastwick" by John Updike ...
- Expect Rainbow To Shine - Yahoo! Eurosport
Expect Rainbow To ShineYahoo! Eurosport, UK - Sep 10, 2008GREAT LEIGHS: 6.50 Mr Loire, 7.20 Compton Falcon, 7.50 Turn To Dreams, 8.20 Romantic Queen, 8.50 Dream Of Olwyn, 9.20 Rockjumper. SANDOWN: 2.20 Always There ...
- Double shift - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
With the next “Star Trek” and “Harry Potter” installments moved to summer 2009, the fall movie season is seriously lacking in flash. But there are still gems to be found and hopefully a few of them will be polished off in this Fall Movie ...
- Connections launch raises the rafters - John O'Groat Journal
Connections launch raises the raftersJohn O'Groat Journal, UK - 2 hours agoNHC has plans to present a year-round programme of events, covering music of all kinds, drama, poetry and the visual arts. It will begin with a series of ...
- Author of 'Wicked' coming to ACC's writers project in fall - Glens Falls Post-Star
Author of 'Wicked' coming to ACC's writers project in fallGlens Falls Post-Star, NY - 1 hour ago... 2008), a poetry comic book. Her poems and prose have been widely published and anthologized and she is the recipient of numerous awards for her work, ...
- SUNY Plattsburgh Presents Calendar of Events Through Early October - ReadMedia (press release)
SUNY Plattsburgh Presents Calendar of Events Through Early OctoberReadMedia (press release), NY - 14 minutes agoPoetry Reading by Gerry LaFemina, 8 pm, Commons, Champlain Valley Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh. LeFemina is the author of several chapbooks, four full-length ...
- Parties slam porn bill for 'potential to create conflict' - Jakarta Post
Parties slam porn bill for 'potential to create conflict'Jakarta Post, Indonesia - 3 hours agoThe funny thing is, the familiarization didn't show the bill for what it was," he said. According to lawmaker Agung, the porn bill violated the 2004 law on ...
- Read a book: Indian mythology - The Statesman
Read a book: Indian mythologyThe Statesman, India - 1 hour agoIt consists of six stories, from poetry, drama and epics, retold by Adithi Rao in a way that is both interesting and easy to understand. ...
- True love: Wearing another's hair - Rutland Herald
During the mid-1860s, a teenage girl in Bridport undertook an arduous task. For countless hours, perhaps working well after dark by the light of an oil lamp, Emma Adele Myrick carefully crafted a beautifully detailed horseshoe-shaped wreath with a ...
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