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- THE UNBEARABLE BADNESS OF WRITING - Brooklyn Rail
Brooklyn RailTHE UNBEARABLE BADNESS OF WRITINGBrooklyn Rail... of Sedaris as he lisps his way through his turgid prose.†A couple of contributors criticize their own work. José Padua is at first pleased when a poem ...
- M.G. Vassanji's Homecoming Turned Out to Be a Novel Idea - AllAfrica.com
Nairobi — When I heard that international award-winning Tanzanian author M. G. Vassanji was going to appear at A Novel Idea - a once in a month book reading featuring poetry and book launches as well - to read excerpts from his books and sign ...
- MAM gets $50,000 for Theaster Gates exhibit - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Milwaukee Art Museum has received $50,000 to commission an original art project from conceptual and performance artist Theaster Gates. Gates, an African-American artist in Chicago, will explore the legacy of the early 19th-century potter Dave ...
- Four Trends for the 'Tens - Bloomberg
Four Trends for the 'TensBloombergIf you're thinking about writing a book about the management practices of African tribal chiefs or the leadership wisdom of English poets, you might want to ...
- Bluets by Maggie Nelson - Bookslut
Bluets by Maggie NelsonBookslutMaggie Nelson's Bluets opens with the line, “Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.†Something that began as “[a]n ...
- PBS to spotlight rocker Patti Smith's 'POV' - The Keene Sentinel
The Keene SentinelPBS to spotlight rocker Patti Smith's 'POV'The Keene SentinelBut I still had time set aside for myself ... early in the mornings or some time each day to study, work on poetry, sometimes write songs with my husband. ...and more »
- Visual arts review: Nasher Sculpture Center's Jaume Plensa exhibit ... - Dallas Morning News
The Nasher Sculpture Center is breaking ground with an exhibition by a living artist, Spanish conceptualist sculptor Jaume Plensa. That's a first. MAX FAULKNER/Special Contributor The artist says 11 alabaster heads of young girls, each 6 feet tall ...
- Two of our foremost intellectuals - The Daily Star
Syed Manzoorul Islam and Kaiser Haq are two of our internationally known intellectuals. While the former is one of the foremost of story-tellers or essayists or critics, the latter is our best poet writing in English. Why have I decided to focus on ...
- Octopus Travel spot York's Literary Appeal - Journalism.co.uk (press release)
Octopus Travel spot York's Literary AppealJournalism.co.uk (press release)A spokesperson at Octopus Travel, online booking agents who offer York hotels said "York is a city perfectly designed for site seeing. ...
- English students launch new literary journal - The Martlet
The MartletEnglish students launch new literary journalThe MartletWe're not just publishing fiction and poetry. We've got philosophy, criticism … we're trying to get everything and anything,†said Sarsfield. ...
- Shakespeare in New York Takes a Turn towards Technology - The Spoof (satire)
Shakespeare in New York Takes a Turn towards TechnologyThe Spoof (satire)Times entertainment editor, P. Enos Limpnoodle says, "Shakespeare is prose and poetry and artful verbal exchange. The tone and inflection in the performance ...and more »
- Poem of the week: Medea in Athens by Augusta Webster - The Guardian
This week's poem is an extract from "Medea in Athens", one of a number of psychologically ... They tend to favour extracts from her sonnet sequence, "Mother and Daughter", poems which can seem sweetly sentimental, read singly, but which are ...
- Chekhov Was A Master In An Age That Needed No Geniuses - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyChekhov Was A Master In An Age That Needed No GeniusesRadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyOf course, that is a great exaggeration, and it describes more closely poetry than prose. No matter what the formalists say, prose needs a topic. ...and more »
- China casts nervous eye at erstwhile ally Myanmar - Sri Lanka Sunday Times
RUILI, China, (Reuters) - The giant red poster staring over China's Wanding border crossing with Myanmar proclaims that their "brotherly feelings will last forever". A few kilometres (miles) away, just outside the dusty frontier town of Ruili, a ...
- Our Morning Roundup: Firing Offenses - Washington City Paper
Friend of the Friends wrote us yesterday with this bit of knowledge ... The cop lost his license, but not his job. So why did these appeals cost so much? The District appeal process took so long that when the employees won their jobs back they were ...
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