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- Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize - Citizen
NEW YORK (AP) _ Judges for the National Book Award honored a comeback, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," a thorough revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s. The 81-year-old author last won a National Book Award ...
- Celebrity power meets philanthropy - Ninemsn
NinemsnCelebrity power meets philanthropyNinemsn, Australia - 30 minutes agoShe spent an afternoon earlier this month at Safe Space's Manhattan Youth High-Risk Drop-In Center, where the youth performed skits, poetry and sang songs ...
- Runner-up: Boomtown (Rocky Mountain News)
The rider had traveled along the old railroad tracks for weeks, figuring it was safer than following the smashed interstate. The mountains lay over his shoulder to the west, their creases barren and gray, save for the odd patch of surviving aspen. From the mountains he had ridden, and to the mountains he would return … once his assignment had been completed. It would be his last, and he was glad ...
- Saskatchewan Book Awards nominees announced - Regina Leader-Post
REGINA -- With 113 titles making the short list, the judges for the 2008 Saskatchewan Book Awards had their work cut out for them. Nominees for the awards, which recognize and celebrate excellence in Saskatchewan writing and publishing, were ...
- Recapping the Emmys (The Star-Ledger)
Alan Sepinwall gives us the scoop on TV's big night
- Poetry needs to be read aloud, says Motion - Guardian Unlimited
Nine-plus years of being "PL", as he calls it, have had their widely reported frustrations for Andrew Motion. But he's very pleased indeed with one aspect of his tenure: the establishment of the online Poetry Archive , collecting a considerable ...
- Suze Orman Will Now Take Your Money Questions - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsSuze Orman Will Now Take Your Money QuestionsNew 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 ...
- Letters pages will never be the same - Reading Evening Post
Letters pages will never be the sameReading Evening Post, UK - 4 hours agoHis writing skills had also turned to poetry and he had two published – one on the Hindenberg disaster and another on old films called Bygone Cinema. ...
- Roy J. Nirschel: Kerouac’s boyish wonder - Providence Journal
Providence JournalRoy J. Nirschel: Kerouac’s boyish wonderProvidence Journal, RI - 5 hours agoIn On the Road, Kerouac is a lonesome traveler who explored the open highway, saw saints and ghosts, created mad poetry and prose, joined the Merchant ...
- Day of the Dead celebrated at Shasta College - Record Searchlight
The dead were out at Shasta College on Friday, and students were there to celebrate and memorialize them. Members of the Amigos Unidos Spanish language club with the Shasta College Science, Math and Language Arts Department commemorated the Mexican ...
- Travis Barker released from L.A. burn centre (CBC)
Musician Travis Barker has been released from L.A.'s Grossman Burn Center where he had been receiving treatment for second- and third-degree after surviving a fiery plane crash in September.
- Judith Wachs, 70; brought new life to Sephardic music - Boston Globe
The epiphany came in the late 1970s when Judith Wachs heard someone sing the Sephardic folk song "Skalerika de Oro." It was as though she had been searching for this kind of music, and the songs were seeking her. "Whenever I tell this story, I still ...
- Pupils play with words - Northumberland Gazette
Pupils play with wordsNorthumberland Gazette, UK - 7 hours ago... at Warkworth First, said: "It is great fun playing with words – poetry enables children to be very creative and be very proud of their writing. ...
- Sharing their way with words (Abilene Reporter-News)
Participants were an assorted cast of characters from retirees to English professors -- and even a veterinarian, Jim Wilson, who recited a poem about a fearless little crawfish titled "Braveheart the Crawfish."
- Flash of silver and they’re gone - Busselton Dunsborough Mail
Flash of silver and they’re goneBusselton Dunsborough Mail, Australia - Nov 12, 2008A horde of retirees – the youngest was 60, while the eldest had celebrated his 82nd birthday – filled the caravan park in a convoy of white Maui campervans. ...
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