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- Voices of Inexperience, Relating War’s Horrors - New York Times
New York TimesVoices of Inexperience, Relating War’s HorrorsNew York Times, United States - 40 minutes agoThis one, in which an Iraqi baby is run over by military trucks, acquires the repetitive, stuttering poetry of a brutally unrelenting film loop. ...
- Vets band together to remember - BCLocalNews
Vets band together to rememberBCLocalNews, Canada - 4 hours agoTo vent his anguish, he scribbled 15 lines of poetry in a notebook that McCrae, dissatisfied with them, threw away. They were, however, retrieved by a ...
- Illinois congressman offered Obama's chief of staff post - Allentown Morning Call
| President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday asked U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel to become his chief of staff as he began to create an administration that has promised to solve the country's woes. A day after he became the first black to be elected president ...
- Prop 8 briefs: Licenses back to bride, groom - Bay Area Reporter
Bay Area ReporterProp 8 briefs: Licenses back to bride, groomBay Area Reporter, CA - 2 hours agoJanice Mirikitani, San Francisco's poet laureate emeritus, will read her poetry and Margot Duane, the producer of Equalipalooza, will exhibit her ...
- Neither fact nor fiction - Jerusalem Post
Neither fact nor fictionJerusalem Post, Israel - 13 hours agoEvery piece, whether an essay or a chapter in a book, is structured within an overall frame - or story structure - which limits you. ...
- Authors grieve over Wallace's death (MSNBC)
The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, a writer who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel "Infinite Jest" and the essay collection "Consider the Lobster."
- 'How to Lose Friends' shows a surefire way: lack a sense of humor - MLive.com
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People" wins no one over. What could have been a snarky, satirical send-up of entertainment media turns out to be a bland, disjointed, poor excuse for a comedy. To put it mildly, it's a mess -- a misguided romantic ...
- At the polls: 'I've never seen anything like this' (Centre Daily Times)
Lines of voters — some with children along for the historic moment — began forming half an hour before the polls opened Tuesday and offered an unfamiliar presence in the normal morning landscape as Centre County residents woke to Election Day.
- Celebrated poet to speak for reading series - University of Washington
Poet Jean Valentine, the Visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23. The talk — part of The Writing Program's Fall Reading Series — is free ...
- City calendar: 10/20/2008 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
City calendar: 10/20/2008Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 30 minutes agoat 7 pm A community conversation follows, with coffee and a selection of African delicacies. For more information, visit www.communityhousepittsburgh.org or ...
- North Carolina Book Award winners announced (The News & Observer)
The North Carolina Literary and Historical Association has announced the winners of the 2008 North Carolina Book Awards.
- Authors grieve over Wallace's apparent suicide (The Oklahoman)
NEW YORK (AP) -- The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel "Infinite Jest" and the essay collection "Consider the Lobster." Wallace, who wrote with an explosive, ironic, but deeply serious passion about ...
- Stellar year so far for LCHS speakers and broadcasters - The Lincoln Journal
The Lincoln JournalStellar year so far for LCHS speakers and broadcastersThe Lincoln Journal, WV - 12 minutes agoStudents competed in a wide array of categories, including after dinner speaking, extemporaneous interpretation and speaking, prose interpretation, poetry ...
- Sandra Steingraber on "Sustainability on Campus" - Knox College
Sandra Steingraber on "Sustainability on Campus"Knox College, IL - 6 hours agoShe also is the author of "Post-Diagnosis," a volume of poetry; and co-author of a book on ecology and human rights in Africa, "The Spoils of Famine. ...
- The Verve go 'Forth'? - San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Francisco Bay GuardianThe Verve go 'Forth'?San Francisco Bay Guardian, CA - 5 hours agoAs you could probably guess, the words clunk like shuffling feet following a misguided poetry-slammer's step to the mic. Detach yourself from such ...
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