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- BOOK REVIEW: On the dusty road to redemption (Belleville News-Democrat)
In terms of literary chutzpah, writing your sophomore novel about a sophomore novelist is the kind of thing that tends to send eyebrows arching skyward. Maybe not as much as titling it "Winner of the National Book Award," as Jincy Willett once did, but still, it's a bold step. But with one move, Leif Enger defangs impending snarkiness with the deftness of a snake handler: He makes his character, ...
- Composer Pays Hotchkiss Visit - Litchfield County Times
Composer Pays Hotchkiss VisitLitchfield County Times, CT - 4 hours ago"I write a great deal of choral music but I like to use American poetry for the words when I can get permission. When I do write the words, ...
- A mum’s diary of her disabled son’s first seven years of life goes on shortlist (icWales)
A PERSONAL diary written by a mother to help her cope with her baby son’s severe disabilities has been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2008, it was revealed last night.
- Anonymous Greeting-Card Writers Put Their Heart Into Their Work - Hartford Courant
Hartford CourantAnonymous Greeting-Card Writers Put Their Heart Into Their WorkHartford Courant, United States - 2 hours agoNeither quite poetry nor prose, it's a unique art form that's never gotten quite the respect it deserves. And it's a thankless one. ...
- Afghan journalist appeals death sentence - The Associated Press
Afghan journalist appeals death sentenceThe Associated Press - 1 hour agoHe has tried to keep up his spirits in his lonely cell by singing and reciting Persian poetry. He says he is healthy and well-treated and allowed outside ...
- Broadway and TV actor Fred Weller comes to Boston for Shakespeare ... - Daily News Tribune
Broadway and TV actor Fred Weller comes to Boston for Shakespeare ...Daily News Tribune, MA - 1 hour agoTo profess his love for Rosalind, he writes truly horrible poetry. It’s not until he escapes to the Forest of Arden, and he’s secretly schooled in the ways ...
- Texas executes man who killed adoptive parents - USA Today
Texas executes man who killed adoptive parentsUSA Today - 5 hours agoThere was a time when I had justification, but that's all wrong." Read more of the interview on his personal Web site, where he also posted his poetry.
- 'Agenda': the long and the short of excellence in poetry - Independent
'Agenda': the long and the short of excellence in poetryIndependent, UK - 5 hours agoIf you enjoyed the recent Independent promotion of booklets on the "Great Poets", you should continue to keep at the cutting edge of poetry by subscribing ...
- Saying goodbye to two long-time production companies (Contra Costa Times)
IT WAS A sad weekend for Bay Area theater as two Contra Costa icons closed their doors — the Antioch Rivertown Players and Walnut Creek's Playhouse West.
- Brownbox Presents Chad Goller-Sojourner's Solo Show 7/11 - Broadway World
Brownbox Presents Chad Goller-Sojourner's Solo Show 7/11Broadway World, NY - 2 hours agoAt times funny, biting and somber Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy chronicles the performer's life-long affair with ...
- 'Don't think twice, it's alright' as Dylan sells out - Peeblesshire News
'Don't think twice, it's alright' as Dylan sells outPeeblesshire News, UK - 6 hours ago... and gouache paintings in The Drawn Blank Series were created during 2007 and visually echo the stylistic hallmarks of Dylan’s prose, poetry and music. ...
- Spin control (Chicago Sun-Times)
ALT-FOLK | Fleet Foxes, "Fleet Foxes" (Sub Pop) Though their wardrobe, beards and burgeoning following are all in step with the leaders of the so-called "freak folk" movement, the Seattle quintet Fleet Foxes distinguishes itself from artists such as Animal Collective and Devendra Banhart because its members are much less emphatically stoner or self-consciously eclectic, and because its ...
- War on the Boy Scouts - Atlanta Journal Constitution
The war on the Boy Scouts continues. It’ll either accept gays or be driven from existence. The long struggle, now going on 20 years, strikes up again, this time in Philadelphia where the city is imposing a $200,000 per year fine on the Boy Scouts ...
- Prescription drug abuse rising among youth (The Union Democrat)
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- Mollie Wilson Ostroski At Borders In Simsbury - Hartford Courant
Mollie Wilson Ostroski At Borders In SimsburyHartford Courant, United States - 5 hours agoThe book is a collection of poetry about issues they may be of concern to young children and teens, including coping with bullies, being hearing-impaired ...
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