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- Male writers dominate Costas (BBC News)
Male writers dominate this year's shortlist for the novel prize at this year's Costa Book of the Awards.
- National Book Awards Has Only Happy People On Wall Street [Hope] (Gawker)
They say human happiness depends largely on your position (social, economic) relative to those around you, an axiom that would explain why the bunch of struggling New York writers at the National...
- Six up for £60,000 writing prize - BBC News
The shortlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, a biennial award to promote writing amongst young people, was unveiled in London on Tuesday. Three of those in line for the prize are British. Writers from South Africa, Vietnam and Ethiopia are also on the ...
- Review: Out of the Blue by Chris Yates - Daily Telegraph
Fishing is "the contemplative man's recreation", Izaak Walton wrote in the 1650s - a retreat from public life and civil war into a kind of insulated bliss. Angling was Walton's "imployment for his idle time, which was not idly spent". It was a "rest ...
- Konstantin Pavlov, Bulgarian poet and screenwriter, dies at 75 - Sophia Echo
In a poem called An Air Kiss, he said that he wanted to spread drawing pins on the floor pointing up and to kneel on them. Then, with arms outstretched beseechingly, he wanted to extract a whisper from the depths of his soul, pleading: “Let us love ...
- Wandering and Wondering: Nov. 26, 2008 (Pacifica Tribune)
FAREWELL, LUXORLuxor at the Palms, our favorite Middle Eastern restaurant, has closed its doors. The South San Francisco location never really worked as a business model, even though the food and service were great.
- Zoe Kazan, Charles L. Mee, Naomi Wallace Are Among 2009 Humana Fest Writers (Playbill)
Plays by Marc Masterson and Adrien-Alice Hansel, Zoe Kazan, Charles L. Mee, Allison Moore, Naomi Wallace and the group UNIVERSES will fill the stages of Actors Theatre of Louisville for the 33rd Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays March 1-April 11, 2009.
- Interview with Horror Writer Joel M. Andre (Blogcritics.org)
"I watch the night sky and get inspiration from it. Your mind drifts off among the stars, and you end up with some great ideas." Joel M. Andre is represented by Pump Up Your Book Promotion, an innovative public relations agency specializing in online book promotion.Kill 4 Me, a technological thriller set in rural America, follows Casey Dwyer, a small town girl who becomes caught in a spirit’s ...
- Literature interrupted - Business World
Today’s column was supposed to be the literary analysis of the poems of Victor N. Sugbo, professor of Communication Arts in UP Tacloban College. Last week I introduced his volume of poetry, ININTOKAN , written in Waray and one of the centennial ...
- Too much 'anti-McCain/Palin garbage' - Sioux City Journal
No, I dont collect a goverment check and never have. I can buy and sell a goofball like you. I got my 100K+ a year job back when Clinton was in office, and now since Bush my annual pay has dropped to 60-70K. So Ive lost 30-40% due to your idiot ...
- Regional A&E Calendar | Oct. 15 - Auburn Reporter
Regional A&E Calendar | Oct. 15Auburn Reporter, WA - 3 hours agoPerformers welcome to share music, poetry, spoken word, comedy or magic. Cost: $5 donation for adults; $3 for students and seniors. ...
- Art project seeks your 'Visions of Peace' - Concord Monitor
Art project seeks your 'Visions of Peace'Concord Monitor, NH - 2 hours agoShort essays and poetry of 250 words or fewer will also be accepted. Reed is also trying to gain financial support for the project, which she hopes to ...
- Campaign Diary: The Podium View (New York Times)
?Farragut North? is an appraisal of presidential campaigns centered around a character who suggests how toxic all of those smiling press secretaries on television these days can be.
- ‘Writers Wriot’ this Saturday (Wickenburg Sun)
The first annual Writers Wriot, sponsored by the Congress-Wickenburg Chapter of the Society of Southwestern Authors and by the Hassayampa Writers’ Club, will be held Saturday (Oct. 11) at the Wickenburg Art Club at 188 S. Tegner from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Time to rhyme - Pawtucket Times
Yunnus Quddus (left) and Lawrence Nunes belt out an a cappella rendition of ‘Words to My Heart’ Wednesday during an open poetry reading at CreativeChica Gallery in Central Falls. The periodic readings are free and open to the public; they are ...
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