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- 93-year-old debut novelist gives home to friends from care homes - Guardian Unlimited
A raunchy novel with a dauntless heroine has transformed the lives of a 93-year-old author and three of her friends who were living in nursing homes. Pushed by her daughter-in-law, who found the manuscript and couldn't put it down, Lorna Page has ...
- St. John's students show at-risk youngsters another side of life - Annapolis Capital
Annapolis CapitalSt. John's students show at-risk youngsters another side of lifeAnnapolis Capital, MD - 3 hours ago"I have discovered talents and skills I didn't know I had; writing poetry and this heavy talking stuff," Antonio Conner, 16 and a resident of the Kingsport ...
- Rose bush to honor 106-year-old - Valdosta Daily Times
VALDOSTA — The Valdosta Timbuktu Biannual Celebration will honor 106-year-old Essie Allen Spruel at 10:30 a.m. today by planting a rose bush in the circle of John W. Saunders Park on River Street, says Grady Whitfield, Timbuktu executive ...
- Ethan Canin’s many-layered novel. - New Yorker
New YorkerEthan Canin’s many-layered novel.New Yorker, United States - 10 minutes agoAnd a complicated, many-layered epic of class, politics, sex, death, and social history it is, shuttling between the twenty-first-century present and the ...
- Latest in children's books covered at conference - Slidell Sentry News
Latest in children's books covered at conferenceSlidell Sentry News, LA - 21 minutes agoIn using the poetry suitcase, each child selects a book of poems or a single poem and they copied the poem onto an index card. ...
- Poets from region pay rich tribute to Palestinian icon - Gulf News
Dubai: Prominent literary figures gathered here to express their gratitude to their mentor and grieve his death, saying no other Arab poet will measure up to Mahmoud Darwish. Darwish was a respected Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards ...
- THE MEMBER-ABILIA AMONG US - New York Post
Treasure-troves of "member-abilia" - Napoleon's privates, Einstein's eyeballs and other morbid collectibles - are being kept under lock and key, prized like family heirlooms, right in our own back yard. An elderly New Jersey ophthalmologist owns ...
- Nature's Poetry (Tucson Weekly)
Petey Mesquitey continues to wax philosophical about Southern Arizona wilds
- The man behind the font - Sunday Star Times
Sunday Star TimesThe man behind the fontSunday Star Times, New Zealand - 1 hour ago"Sometimes I see it as like an accent - you're setting New Zealand poetry in an Italian typeface. It's sort of like speaking in an Italian accent. ...
- Mahmoud Darwish's translator is honoured - Guardian Unlimited
The translator of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's collection The Butterfly's Burden has won the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for literary translation from Arabic. Fady Joudah, a Palestinian American poet, practising doctor and poetry ...
- LONG BEACH 101 - District Weekly
LONG BEACH 101District Weekly, CA - 6 hours agoThe hip-hop community loves Homeland, but then so do the Hmong dancers, the African drummers, the poets, the graffiti muralists and the local playwrights. ...
- Schedule of events - Providence Journal
The R.I. Antiques Mall, at 345 Fountain St., will offer "appraisal day" on Saturday and "dealer day" on Sunday. The Providence Journal / Sandor Bodo This is the first of three weekends of the 10th annual Pawtucket Arts Festival. Here’s this weekend ...
- Pitching an Agent: 'Prescriptive Nonfiction With a Twist' - Mediabistro.com
A good cover can make or break a book's sales. Learn the best way to share your thoughts about the cover design of your next book. Background: Sheree Bykofsky incorporated her agency in 1991, drawing on her years of experience as a book packager. She ...
- ANDY YSIANO “COOL ARROW” THE LAST OF THE PRETTY BOYS - La Prensa Hispana
La Prensa HispanaANDY YSIANO “COOL ARROW” THE LAST OF THE PRETTY BOYSLa Prensa Hispana, CA - 16 hours agoAs the alcoholic, now famous poet Edgar Allen Poe did many years ago, bartering his poetry, Andy was prone to do the same with his songs as a means to ...
- Literary late-bloomers (The Christian Science Monitor)
Of course we all know that if at first you don’t succeed you’re supposed to try, try again, but frankly I don’t know how most authors stand the rejection.
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