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- Season's readings: writers and politicians pick the best reads of 2008 (Guardian Unlimited)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Set during and after the Lebanese civil war, Rawi Hage's extraordinary De Niro's Game (Old Street) is about the bravado and betrayal of two friends. Hage bends the English language to his will, mixes poetry and history, and never forgets the humanity of his characters. José Eduardo Agualusa's The Book of Chameleons , translated by Daniel Hahn (Arcadia), is told ...
- 'Ella Minnow Pea', a New Musical, Tested in University of Michigan Workshop (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
A couple of New York City musical theatre writers have been in residence in Ann Arbor, MI, in recent weeks, honing their new musical, Ella Minnow Pea, for a sold-out workshop production by the University of Michigan's respected musical theatre program.
- Words matter here - The Australian
The AustralianWords matter hereThe Australian, Australia - 1 hour agoThere are dozens more, some of them existing only in an online form, some of them dedicated to poetry, all of them simultaneously buoyed andweighed down by ...
- Writers welcome a literary president-elect (Seattle Times)
For Toni Morrison and other writers, the election of Barack Obama matters not because he will be the first black president or because the vast majority of writers usually vote for Democrats. Writers welcome Obama as a peer, a thinker, a man of words — his own words.
- Wordstock Starts Tonight! - The Portland Mercury
Wordstock Starts Tonight!The Portland Mercury, OR - 3 hours agoWhen I interviewed Netzer for this week's feature, he mentioned that he was particularly excited about tonight's Superstar Poetry Slam at the Bagdad: The ...
- VIDEO: Fall play looks at life through poetry (Hinsdale Suburban Life)
Students at Hinsdale Central High School are transforming snapshots of original poetry into Central’s first September production, “Stuck in a Portrait.â€
- Bulletin Board: Dec. 3 (The Norwich Bulletin)
Bulletin Board: Dec. 3.
- CAMPUS BRIEFS - Durham Herald Sun
CAMPUS BRIEFSDurham Herald Sun, NC - 32 minutes agoChitwood, a lecturer in the English department, received the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry for "Spill" (Tupelo Press, 2007), his sixth collection of poems ...
- Artist Quarter’s Holiday Parade of Jazz in December - Jazz Police
Artist Quarter’s Holiday Parade of Jazz in DecemberJazz Police, MN - 28 minutes agoFirst Mondays, Poetry Slam/Ill Chemistry (8 pm, $5). December features Desdamona’s lyrics and the beatbox skills of Carnage to form one wild hiphop show. ...
- Advocates gather to promote change in marijuana laws - Daily Texan Online
High above the Pecan Street Festival, Texans for the legalization of marijuana showed their support Saturday night at the Third Annual Sixth Street Smokeout and 2008 Global Marijuana Music Awards at Momo’s. The Texas branch of NORML, the National ...
- Remembrance Day: Lest we forget the mothers of heroes - Times Online
Times OnlineRemembrance Day: Lest we forget the mothers of heroesTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoThere are no mothers in poetry, Alice Macdonald Kipling told her son Rudyard. He had to get on in the world by his own merits. ...
- 'American Teen' examines high school life -- without the usual song ... - MLive.com
In HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR, the students at East High will breeze through a senior year in which no one deals with sexual urges, the temptations of drugs and alcohol or any other sort of crisis that can't be solved through song. Most of us ...
- Again, a newly discovered poet - Examiner.com
Again, a newly discovered poetExaminer.com - 2 hours agoHealy's translation of The Romantic Dogs, one of Bolaño's two collections of poetry, will be published by New Directions this month, according to Wiman's ...
- Sadly these products are still on the shelves in Asian supermarkets ... - Globe and Mail
Bill Foonman from Jacksonville, United States writes: Canadian food products are poorly labeled at the best of times. It seems that it is more important to cram both official languages on the packaging than to clearly state nutritional details or ...
- An underrated giant - CricInfo.com
CricInfo.comAn underrated giantCricInfo.com, UK - 11 hours agoIt is more blessed to make a stirring 30 full of poetry-provoking strokes than a dogged half-century that might lead to a victory. ...
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