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- Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize (AP via Yahoo! News)
Judges for the National Book Awards honored a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," a revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s. The 81-year-old author last won a National Book Award 30 years ago.
- Could perfume be the recession antidote? - Women.timesonline
It was the late Estée Lauder who, in the midst of rough economic times, said: “When things are bad, if a woman has a little perfume and a new lipstick, she feels like a queen.†And it was by knowing a thing or two about how women felt that ...
- Broussard, McFadden, Blaser vie for Griffin Poetry Prize - Montreal Gazette
Montreal feminist postmodernist Nicole Brossard and Pulitzer Prize winner John Ashbery are among the writers shortlisted for the $100,000 Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the most lucrative poetry prizes in the world. The annual prize awards $50,000 to ...
- The banality of Mamet - Open Democracy
The banality of MametOpen Democracy, UK - 1 hour agoBlues is poetry ... political correctness is un-American ... democracy is bloodless change of power ... the genius of America is Liberty ... small ...
- A BOOK WELL WORTH THE WAIT - Royal Gazette
Royal GazetteA BOOK WELL WORTH THE WAITRoyal Gazette, Bermuda - 54 minutes agoIn fact, the poem became a family joke whenever he mentioned it. Meanwhile, the years passed with it sitting in the bottom of the author's desk drawer  so ...
- Bartók: The Wooden Prince; Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2 Dvorák ... - Musical Criticism
Musical CriticismBartók: The Wooden Prince; Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2 Dvorák ...Musical Criticism, UK - 9 hours agoAlsop was able to convey the ever-changing musical surface with great poetry  the unexpectedly gentle end of the suite, with the haunting horn tune shot ...
- The Favorite Poem Project: Mark Sherouse - New West
The Favorite Poem Project: Mark SherouseNew West, MT - 3 hours ago... Poem Project,†a community-based reading originally developed by former poet laureate Robert Pinsky to demonstrate the civic presence of poetry. ...
- Epstein’s death ’a sad loss’ (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Recently retired University of Iowa instructor and poet Glen Epstein is being remembered for his interests and skill in calligraphy, art and books.
- Singer-Songwriter, in a Confessional Mood - Wall Street Journal
On the four albums he's released since landing a record deal in 2003, the Scandinavian singer-songwriter Teitur has used an impressive array of instruments behind his very personal lyrics -- everything from amplified and heavily reverberated acoustic ...
- The art of love: William Hogarth - Independent
The art of love: William HogarthIndependent, UK - 10 hours agoBut the scene has one of Hogarth's weird bits of visual poetry, the spots of light that the watch's lantern throws on the ceiling above it: an observation ...
- Staff Players Repertory Company would like you to spend your ... - Monterey County Herald
Staff Players Repertory Company would like you to spend your ...Monterey County Herald, CA - 16 hours agoIn our masks for theater, for the holiday at hand, or for our daily life, Hovick asks about our willingness to accept the roles we are handed and to imagine ...
- John Bennett takes out inaugural Tribe prize (University of Sydney News)
Dr John Bennett, a Project Officer in the School of Public Health, has won the inaugural David Harold Tribe Poetry Award worth $11,000.
- AUD Celebrates National Day - Khaleej Times
AUD Celebrates National DayKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 10 hours agoDUBAI - The American University in Dubai (AUD) celebrated on Wednesday the 37th Anniversary of the UAE. The event, dubbed ‘UAE National Night at AUD’ and ...
- The Jewel of Medina’ isn’t as incendiary as furor might ... - La Crosse Tribune
“The Jewel of Medina,†Sherry Jones’ hot-potato novel about the Prophet Muhammad and his child-bride Aisha, comes not from a field of spuds, but a Mideast quarry some consider bedrock-hard in its historical clarity, others soft and uncertain ...
- Would Trace Adkins Really Marry for Money? - CMT.com
CMT.comWould Trace Adkins Really Marry for Money?CMT.com, TN - 3 hours agoThey may not have the poetry of a country ballad or the heartfelt story of a love-gone-wrong tale, but they have something. ...
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