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- Mudcat offers color-blind message of togetherness - USA Today
Mudcat offers color-blind message of togethernessUSA Today - 2 hours agoHe has written a book, The Black Aces: Baseball's Only African-American Twenty-Game Winners, and speaks often on the proud history of African-Americans in ...
- Jay Parini's 'Promised Land' (San Francisco Chronicle)
Promised Land Thirteen Books That Changed America By Jay Parini Doubleday; 385 pages; $24.95 In our increasingly, often alarmingly anti-intellectual culture, the underlying premise of Jay Parini's "Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America" - that...
- Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini (The Christian Science Monitor)
(From Barnes & Noble review) 11/24/2008 Khaled Hosseini A conversation with James Mustich, Editor-in-Chief, Barnes & Noble Review Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1965. At the age of 11, he moved to Paris with his family as a result of his father's diplomatic posting to the French capital by the Afghan ...
- Dispute over poet's grave reflects lingering pain over Spain's Civil ... - Chicago Tribune
VIZNAR, Spain (AP) _ The tranquil, pine-carpeted hills in this patch of southern Spain hold awful secrets. Now, one of them has been thrust into the spotlight of a still painful accounting of atrocities committed in the Spanish Civil War. The dispute ...
- Manhattan Project: New Staging - Wall Street Journal
A new production can usefully illuminate aspects of an opera that were originally obscure. By giving John Adams's "Doctor Atomic" to the film director Penny Woolcock, the Metropolitan Opera divorced the work from the inscrutable staging of Peter ...
- Halifax's Banks wins Governor General's award - The Chronicle Herald
N.S. playwright Catherine Banks won the Governor General’s Literary Award Tuesday.(Staff) Nova Scotia playwright Catherine Banks invited her Grade 8 teacher Dr. Claudia Mitchell to the Governor General’s Literary Awards announcement in Montreal ...
- Bulgarian poet Konstantin Pavlov dies at 75 (The Charlotte Observer)
Poet and screenwriter Konstantin Pavlov, who became one of Bulgaria's most prominent intellectuals with his rare defiance of the country's communist regime, has died, a filmmakers union said. He was 75. Pavlov died Sunday after a long illness, the Union of Bulgarian Film Makers announced. He was among the few Bulgarian intellectuals who dared to assert their professional independence during the ...
- 'Terror Texts': Musical at Iowa Christian college depicts frightening Bible stories (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
DES MOINES, Iowa - Don't expect to hear these Bible stories at church. Cannibalism, rape, a bear that mauls children — this is the Bible? They're among six stories from the Old Testament acted out in "Terror Texts," a musical at Northwestern College in Orange City.
- World-famous Flamenco guitarist to star in classic tragedy at ... - Liverpool Daily Post
World-famous Flamenco guitarist to star in classic tragedy at ...Liverpool Daily Post, UK - 1 hour agoOne of the most innovative and powerful plays of the 20th century, it captures the lyrical intensity and killer tension of Lorca's poetry. Blood Wedding is ...
- Poetry in praise of older folk - Stratford Press
Poetry in praise of older folkStratford Press, New Zealand - 2 hours agoTHE annual Greats and Grands Poetry Competition was held in Stratford this week, with another great turnout. The competition is an opportunity for children ...
- The best we can hope for, the best we can muster - CounterPunch
The best we can hope for, the best we can musterCounterPunch, CA - 5 hours ago*Written in 1998, & first published in his book, Streets for Two Dancers, 2004. ROBERT GIBBONS is the poetry & fiction editor of Janus Head. ...
- RI District will keep things hopping for the holidays Dec. 5 - Quad-Cities Online
RI District will keep things hopping for the holidays Dec. 5Quad-Cities Online, IL - 19 hours agoTheo’s Java Club will feature a special Multimedia Happening which includes live music, art, poetry, literature, and film. Also featured is Padraig Steadman ...
- Ateneo MassCom students to launch book (Sun Star)
THE Creative Writing and Playwriting classes of the Department of Mass Communication will have a book launching activity at 6 p.m. Tuesday dubbed as "Binurong Lapis" at The Gallery of the Peninsula and The Archipelago façade.
- Newcastle: a cursed brand (Sunday Herald)
could never hope to match the poetry, near Shakespearian in its eloquence, of a Joe Kinnear. Was Hamlet ever more tragic? Take it from us: years from now leather-bound volumes of F*** the Press: the Soliloquies of a Caretaker Coach will be collectors' items.
- Kathleen Norris battles 'the demon of acedia' - Los Angeles Times
We have a vast palette of words that attempt to express our downcast moods -- "a funk," "the blues," "the doldrums." All of them abstractions, euphemisms we employ in an effort to pinpoint something elusive -- a sensation that might be a shade less ...
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