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- Fear and loafing in the Green Zone (Salon.com)
Welcome to Baghdad's post-decadent stronghold: Menacing Peruvian mercenaries, Chinese prostitutes, concealed beer and doughnuts -- and Iraqis eyeing a foreboding future.
- Phil Trounstine: I'm Just Sayin': Biden's ancient word theft no longer an issue (HuffingtonPost)
Whether or not Barack Obama picks Joe Biden, the distinguished senator from Delaware, to be his running mate, that decision - and subsequent appraisals of...
- Weekender — Word calendar for July 18-24 - San Antonio Express News
Showings all day and all 'Knight' Pub Crawl — Scout Bar Review: 'The Dark Knight' John Goodspeed: Chesnutt keeps up the honky-tonking Latin Notes: Accordion icon Jimenez joins Willie on stage Jim Beal Jr.: Sounds like a jazz weekend Review: 'Dearly ...
- A portrait of the author - Buffalo News
A portrait of the authorBuffalo News, United States - 39 minutes agoNine family portraits that belonged to James Joyce, including two of the literary giant himself, have been restored by Buffalo State College art ...
- Bear books for children are great reading - San Francisco Chronicle
Bear books for children are great readingSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 3 hours agoIn a most natural way, Muth infuses the book with a melange of Asian references and sensibilities - Japanese poetry, Buddhist teachings, tai-chi-like ...
- Briefs (Lowell Sun)
Ice-cream sundaes in Townsend TOWNSEND -- Kids can kick off summer with an ice-cream sundae on the library lawn. The program is open to children in preschool through fifth grade. It will be held tomorrow on the Townsend Public Library lawn at 1 p.
- Gowdy's Helpless wins Trillium Book Award - CBC News
Barbara Gowdy is one of the newest winners of Ontario's Trillium Book Awards, announced at a midday ceremony in Toronto Thursday. The Toronto-based Gowdy won the $20,000 English-language Trillium Book Award for her seventh novel, Helpless , which ...
- Author, poet to speak at women's business dinner (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
A self-published poet and author will be the keynote speaker tomorrow at a dinner celebrating the 37th anniversary of the Richmond chapter of the American Business Women's Association.
- 'Ginsberg loved Calcutta, where poets were worshipped' - Rediff
In the early 1960s, journalist and Sikh historian Khushwant Singh met with a group of hippies who told him that they had left America for an Indian sojourn because they were fed up with materialism. Singh told them Indians were fed up with ubiquitous ...
- War and Peace - Richmond.com
Richmond.comWar and PeaceRichmond.com, VA - 1 hour agoAbstraction has worked its way into every art form -- painting, music, sculpture, photography, poetry, dance, theater and so on. ...
- Subway appointment is set to be poetry in motion (The Herald)
Subway commuters bereft of anything to look at but their fellow passengers' feet are to be given a daily dose of tailor-made poetry.
- Life stories, all in six words (The Pantagraph)
"To be or not to be." That's Shakespeare -- you might know him.
- Bring Your Questions for the CEO of Digg - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsBring Your Questions for the CEO of DiggNew York Times Blogs, NY - 2 hours ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- NZ Poet Laureate to MC celebration of Kiwi poetry - Scoop
The festivities will include the launches of Bob Orr's new collection of poems Calypso, with cover and section dividers by Waiheke sculptor Denis O'Connor, and the book-and-CD anthology New New Zealand Poets in Performance, edited by poets Jack Ross ...
- Kay Ryan is named U.S. poet laureate - Seattle Times
NEW YORK — Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has ...
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