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- U.S. National Book Awards go to slave and outlaw books (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A book about a slave family with ties to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and novel about a notorious Florida outlaw were among the winners at America's 59th annual National Book Awards on Wednesday.
- Remember the Humpback Barn Festival? It's back - Muncie Star Press
Remember the Humpback Barn Festival? It's backMuncie Star Press, IN - 12 hours agoMUNCIE -- Art and poetry lovers may remember the popular annual autumn ritual known as the Humpback Barn Festival of Poetry & Art. Memories of the event are ...
- Teller wins German Book Prize (EARTHtimes.org)
Frankfurt - Author Uwe Teller won on Monday the German Book Prize, an annual, 25,000-euro (34,000-dollar) award for German-speaking novels, the judges announced in Frankfurt. He gained the award for The Tower, a monumental work describing the collaps...
- Poetry Foundation names children's laureate, humor winner - Seattle Times
Poetry Foundation names children's laureate, humor winnerSeattle Times, United States - 3 hours agoGoldbarth, 60, Chicago-born but now living in Kansas, has written 25 poetry collections and twice won a National Book Critics Circle Award. ...
- ’Lockerbie’ a lyrical look at life, loss, love - Naples Daily News
’Lockerbie’ a lyrical look at life, loss, loveNaples Daily News, FL - 3 hours agoThe dialogue favors poetry over prose: Actors are meant to temper their onstage emotions with the intention of creating a greater impact for the play’s high ...Inside the Mind of an Actress Gulfshore Lifeall 2 news articles
- Manley and McKay: reform and revolution in the politics of the ... - Green Left Weekly
Manley and McKay: reform and revolution in the politics of the ...Green Left Weekly, Australia - 18 minutes agoThe language and oral history traditions of rural Jamaica would shape his poetry and prose for decades. It was in Jamaica that as a young man McKay, ...
- Mad Cat Theater Company's stirring it up with 'Mixtape' (Miami Herald)
Remember the mixtape? Before we started downloading music and burning CDs, a personalized tape of carefully chosen, precisely ordered songs was a way to make an artistically expressive personal statement.
- Writers convene, collaborate at University conference - Wesleyan Argus
Writers convene, collaborate at University conferenceWesleyan Argus, CT - 1 hour ago... exploring the worlds of fiction, poetry, autobiography, memoir, non-fiction, literary journalism and publishing. “The longevity and excellence of the ...
- Review: 'Strong' is bigger than its formula - Salt Lake Tribune
Rugby players in the scrum in the made-in-Utah drama "Forever Strong." There's no shame in following formula. Haiku and sonnets are formula poetry - and yet they still require craft and beauty. So it's no insult to call the made-in-Utah drama ...
- Goodbye Shakespeare & Co., hello Antiquarium (Ashland Daily Tidings)
The owners of Shakespeare & Co., located next to the Varsity movie theater downtown, will close or sell the book and antique store soon to focus on their new venture, Antiquarium, located across the street at 197 E. Main St.
- BOOK REVIEW: Mother's mysterious friend drives 'Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn' (The Charlotte Observer)
"Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn" by Alice Mattison; Harper Perennial ($14.95) In "Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn," writer Alice Mattison weaves a story of four women and life-changing events that take place 14 1/2 years apart. There's Constance Tepper, known as Con; her mother, Gertrude; and Con's daughter Joanna. But it's Marlene Silverman, Gertrude's lifelong best friend, whose ...
- Boz Scaggs' nightclub Slim's 20 years old - San Francisco Chronicle
Boz Scaggs' nightclub Slim's 20 years oldSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 17 minutes agoPatti Smith makes her return to performance reading poetry and singing a couple of tentative songs, backed only by bass player Tony Shanahan. ...
- Chris Shott - New York Observer
Anna Del Gaizo. One-time demolition target Hotel Pennsylvania continues to line landlord Steve Roth's pockets, giving him even more reason to hang on to the old McKim, Mead & White-designed lodge. Quarterly figures released this week by Mr. Roth's ...
- Milestones Among Poetry Anthologies - Wall Street Journal
1. The Greek Anthology 100 B.C. The foundation of this collection of ancient Greek poetry is the "anthologia" gathered by the poet Meleager in the first century B.C. He offered the works as a poetical bouquet ("anthos" = flower, "logia" = gathering ...
- "Pardon me, but are you dead?" 10 best classic kitsch murder mysteries - San Francisco Examiner
Anyone attempting to make a definitve list of The Best Mysteries of All Time will have more trouble than a Scotland Yard detective faced with the body a murdered girl and no fingerprints or murder weapon. For one thing, mystery stories used to be a ...
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