Book News: J.K. Rowling Tells 'Harry Potter' Backstories
Source: National Public Radio
Pen :: India | updated 2013-05-20 05:40:21 -0700 | entertainment-news
Rowling Tells 'Harry Potter' Backstories by Annalisa Quinn May 20, 2013 7:15 AM Ben Pruchnie / Getty Images The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly...Rowling, Seamus Heaney, Hilary Mantel, Tom Stoppard and Ian McEwan, together...
LIME donates computer to Harris twins
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Pen :: India | updated 2013-05-17 22:30:42 -0700 | allnews
May Pen Hospital on Tuesday, where Brianna is currently hospitalised. Both girls, after being featured in The Gleaner 's Rural Express some three weeks ago when they expressed a longing for a computer, also received a generous educational scholarship and...
LIME donates computer to Harris twins
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Pen :: India | updated 2013-05-17 22:30:42 -0700 | allnews
May Pen Hospital on Tuesday, where Brianna is currently hospitalised. Both girls, after being featured in The Gleaner 's Rural Express some three weeks ago when they expressed a longing for a computer, also received a generous educational scholarship and...
'Harry Potter' first edition annotated by author up for auction
Source: Chicago Tribune
Pen :: India | updated 2013-05-17 19:58:09 -0700 | entertainment-news
Rowling's mind when she wrote the first "Harry Potter" novel? Fans of books about the boy wizard will have a chance to bid on a unique first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," annotated by the author, at...
Olympus PEN E-P5 | A Micro Four Thirds Digital Camera with Retro Styling
Source: Freshness Mag
Pen :: India | updated 2013-05-11 20:20:06 -0700 | technology-news
Olympus PEN E-P5 A Micro Four Thirds Digital Camera with Retro Styling With the resurgence in retro styling inspiring its design and pro-level specs driving its internal mechanics, the PEN E-P5 is Olympus ' latest Mirco Four Thirds Digital Camera making headlines...
Night at the Museum: Cindy Adams Works a Room
Source: The New York Observer
Pen :: India | updated 2013-05-09 11:36:47 -0700 | political-news
Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center) INT. PEN Literary Gala, who include Philip Roth, Z adie Smith , Jay McInerney , Jennifer Egan , Candace Bushnell , Joanna Coles and Peter Godwin ...Adams is wearing a splashy, graphic print jacket and a...
Do Manhattan Mini Storage Ads Count as Literature?
Source: The New York Observer
Pen :: India | updated 2013-05-07 16:24:37 -0700 | political-news
The PEN World Voices Festival, which took place at several venues throughout the city last week, is ostensibly devoted to highbrow literary achievement, featuring the likes of Philip Roth, Lewis Lapham and Naomi Wolf. So it was surprising that Manhattan...
Home Is Where the Art Is: Westbeth Opens Its Doors To Literary Looky-Loos
Source: New York Observer
Pen :: India | updated 2013-05-07 12:13:16 -0700 | political-news
The sun was setting when we arrived at Westbeth , and as soon as we entered the labyrinthine corridors of the artists' housing complex, we found ourselves dreaming about living here, in what a friend described as a Hotel Chelsea...
Cabbies' Poetry Researched With the Meter Running
Source: The New York Times
Pen :: India | updated 2013-05-05 18:29:00 -0700 | allnews
Poetry of the Streets, Written by Those Who Know Them Best Published: May 5, 2013 The poets work from 5 to 5, day shift or night, conducting their research with the meter running. Benjamin Norman for The New York Times...
Cabbies' Poetry Researched With the Meter Running
Source: The New York Times
Pen :: India | updated 2013-05-05 18:29:00 -0700 | allnews
Poetry of the Streets, Written by Those Who Know Them Best Published: May 5, 2013 The poets work from 5 to 5, day shift or night, conducting their research with the meter running. Benjamin Norman for The New York Times...
Literary Festival Highlights Repression in China
Source: Epoch Times
Pen :: India | updated 2013-05-03 16:56:40 -0700 | political-news
PEN World Voices, is putting censorship in China on center stage. Internationally famous writers and dissidents including Salman Rushdie, Chen Guangchen, Yu Jie, Peter Godwin and others were on hand in New York City for an intimate panel discussion on...
Lewis Lapham Loves to Smoke
Source: New York Observer
Pen :: India | updated 2013-05-02 11:55:08 -0700 | political-news
Lewis Lapham discusses his smoking habit. (Photo by Beowulf Sheehan) Lewis Lapham, the former longtime editor of Harper's Magazine , started smoking in 1952, and he's been going at it with zeal ever since. I developed an early passionate attachment,...
To Do Wednesday: Smoke Reflector
Source: The New York Observer
Pen :: India | updated 2013-05-01 06:07:29 -0700 | political-news
Lewis Lapham Longtime editor and longtime chain-smoker Lewis Lapham , who ran Harper's for three decades before founding Lapham's Quarterly , loves tobacco and will be discussing his romance with nicotine at the PEN World Voices Festival, a salon-style conversation...
Clarendon crime climbs - Delinquency increases with unemployment rate
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Pen :: India | updated 2013-05-01 00:58:37 -0700 | business-news
Already, 38 persons have been murdered in Clarendon, 11 more than the 27 killed during the corresponding period in 2012, which represents a 40 per cent jump in murders, according to figures released by the Clarendon police at a press...
Philip Roth receives 'Literary Service' award
Source: The Idaho Statesman
Pen :: India | updated 2013-04-30 23:58:12 -0700 | entertainment-news
Philip Roth's latest honor was as much for what he has done for other writers as for his own work. Roth received the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award Tuesday night. He was cited for such novels as "Portnoy's Complaint" and...
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