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Travelling on one leg
Berlin :: Germany | 2 days ago
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She is small, featherweight even, and is the last person you would suspect to have spent a childhood herding cows...The village," she continues, referring to her place of birth, "lies in the Romanian Banat, a two-hour drive from Belgrade and Budapest.
Tags: Herta M�ller, Germany, Berlin, Danube Swabian, Herta Mￃﾼller, Hospitality Recreation, German Book Prize, S. Fischer Verlag, German studies, Oskar Pastior, Sibiu, Literature, Bucharest, Romania, Mircea Cￄﾃrtￄﾃrescu, E-book, Electronic publishing, Book, Edition, Bestseller, Publishing, Documents, Printing, Entertainment Culture
The Red Velvet Turnshoe, By Cassandra Clark
London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility Cassandra Clark's book is a cheat – but it cheats in the way that most authoritative historical crime fiction must. After all, any attempt to recreate the speech (and thought processes) of characters living in the 14th century has to be a conjuring trick...
Tags: Clark, Hildegard, United Kingdom, London, Verisimilitude, John of Gaunt 1st Duke of Lancaster, Fiction, Literature, Narratology
Getting satire right
La Grange :: IL :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility From Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck to Bill Maher's targets in the 2008 comedic documentary "Religulous," those on the right of the spectrum often wind up as subjects of late-night zingers and scorching sendups. They are less often the originators of those...
Tags: Kent Woodyard, Conor McCarthy, talking mirror, Kurt Luchs, humor sites, evangelical culture, La Grange, Satire, Theatre, Woodyard, The Onion, Joke, Humor, Humanities, Literature
House Lions 1.4 – Peter Myers
Takoma Park :: MD :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility Peter Myers '13 Bio : Peter Myers was birthed by liberal parents onto the mean streets of Takoma Park, Maryland. After many years of dabbling in poetry and short stories during middle school English, he got down to business his junior year of high school...
Tags: Peter Myers, Takoma Park, Literature, Writing, Takoma Park Maryland, Communication design, Creative writing, Creativity
"Kicking And Screaming For Science Fiction" Did No Good, On Publisher's Weekly's Best-Of List [Books]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility What do women authors and science-fiction writers have in common? A notable absence on Publisher's Weekly 's list of the ten best books of the year. PW apologized proactively for the omission, saying "We wanted the list to reflect what we thought were...
Tags: Linda Lowen, Maybe PW, science fiction, San Francisco, Cherie Priest, John Cheever, Women's writing in English, Literature, Literary criticism, Literary theory, Fiction, Entertainment Culture
Poetry with music
Auckland :: New Zealand | 8 days ago
Credibility Like Fiona Farrell, Bernadette Hall spent six months in Ireland courtesy of the Rathcoola Fellowship, and like Farrell, she has produced a superb new collection of poems that feed off the Irish experience. Many of the poetry books I have reviewed this...
Tags: Diana Bridge, New Zealand, Auckland, Literature, Poetry, Spoken word, Entertainment Culture, Aesthetics, Genres, Linguistics
Memorable 'Passages' -- Helen Drayton's
Port of Spain :: Trinidad and Tobago | 9 days ago
Credibility As cameras, celebrities and Cabinet members crammed into the National Academy for the Performing Arts for its opening ceremony, about 200 literature lovers deliberately sought to escape the pomp and circumstance surrounding the celebrations and chose...
Tags: Helen Drayton, Rosalind Wilson, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Literature, Poetry, Spoken word, Drayton, Aesthetics, Genres, Linguistics, Education
Interview with New York Times bestseller Robert Ferrigno
Robert Ferrigno is a New York Times bestselling novelist and author of Horse Latitudes, the Assassins futuristic trilogy Prayers for the Assassin, Sins of the Assassin (Mystery Writers of America 2009 Edgar Award Finalist), Heart of the Assassin and other...
Tags: Robert Ferrigno, Ken Coffman, Mark Steyn, Islam, Politics, :Literature
Take up the Pen, My Soldiers
Yes it’s the old cliche. The pen is mightier than the sword. How long does it often take before we realise or rediscover this truism and apply it to our own lives. For so long I had tried to prove myself by the sword. I believe this is a trap...
Tags: article, literature, michael nunn
Litquake's Book Ball a celebration of culture
There are so many people in the room and you don't know what life means to any of them but you know they're all trying to make sense of it somehow, and in some way in the same way, and for a moment in time they're all in the same place: Litquake's...
Tags: litquake, bool ball, san francisco, literature, poetry, tenth, 10th, 10, festival
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