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- The Beautiful Struggle (2008) (Entertainment Weekly)
It once seemed like every male memoirist of color needed a CV featuring prison time and drug addiction. Ta-Nehisi Coates (a former TIME staffer) sidestepped both, but his The Beautiful Struggle is as gripping as Piri Thomas' classic Down These Mean Streets . He reconstructs his formative years in Baltimore, focusing on his complicated family life (overseen by his dad, a strict, autodidactic ...
- In Town: Kevin Henkes & Lynne Rae Perkins - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription)
In Town: Kevin Henkes & Lynne Rae PerkinsMilwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription), WI - 1 hour agoThe celebration includes poetry readings and film screenings as well as readings by local authors. Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops kicks off the celebrations ...
- Review: Forbidden love is at heart of 'Pearl' (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia. By Douglas Smith. Yale University Press. 284 pages. $35. A love story between the richest nobleman in Imperial Russia and a young serf with a spellbindi...
- Posted -14 sec ago - Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin
Posted -14 sec agoCollingwood Enterprise Bulletin, Canada - 12 minutes agoThere will be pairings of music and poetry, photography and literature, play excerpts, spontaneous word-based computer music composition and more. ...
- Study uncovers the educational benefits of social networking sites - Science Centric
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered the educational benefits of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The same study found that low-income students are in many ways just as ...
- Events (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)
Summit Branch of Boyd County Public Library, 1016 Summit Road, Ashland.
- DuPage library calendar - Chicago Daily Herald
DuPage library calendarChicago Daily Herald, IL - 13 minutes agoShare a favorite poem or one you've written at the first National Poetry Month Reading at 7 pm Saturday at the Villa Park Public Library, 305 S. Ardmore Ave ...
- National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Books for the Big Read (Kansas City InfoZine)
Communities looking to rekindle their love of reading by joining the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) reading initiative The Big Read will now have even more great books to choose from.
- Laughing Communism to death - Daily Telegraph
"Jokes were Eastern Europe's jazz, the music of the oppressed," Ben Lewis observes. But did they contribute significantly to the collapse of the Communist system? Lewis thinks so, and has travelled extensively in eastern Europe to prove it ...
- QUICK CLICKS: Local news briefs for Monday, June 30 - Waco Tribune Herald
QUICK CLICKS: Local news briefs for Monday, June 30Waco Tribune Herald, TX - 5 hours agoParticipants will learn how to get their poetry, fiction and nonfiction works published. The class will cover basic etiquette and formatting, ...
- Bulletin Board: A list of events in Broward County (Sun-Sentinel)
Today's highlights Audubon Society meeting , Broward County chapter, 7 p.m., Fern Forest Nature Center, Coconut Creek. Free. Call 954-776-5585.
- National Arts Centre 'Legend' dies - Globe and Mail
Hamilton Southam, the diplomat, founding visionary of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and many other cultural and historical institutions – including the annual celebration of Canada Day on Parliament Hill – died quietly in his own bed ...
- Storytelling festival coming to Wytheville - Southwest Virginia Today
Storytelling festival coming to WythevilleSouthwest Virginia Today, VA - 11 minutes agoAnndrena Belcher will bring her oral history performances—integrated with folktales, song, dance and poetry – to the festival. Her presentations are in ...
- CHECK IT OUT: At the Harvard Public Library - Harvard Post
CHECK IT OUT: At the Harvard Public LibraryHarvard Post, MA - 1 hour ago... through our annual Whitcomb Poetry Award. Saturday, May 17: Early Bird admission 8 to 9 am, $10 entry. Free admission 9 am to 4 pm Book collections: We ...
- Community news - Daily Reflector
The Pitt County chapter of the American Red Cross will hold its annual meeting from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at Paramore Clubhouse. Board members will be elected and volunteers and partners will be recognized. Refreshments will be served. For more ...
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