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Berlin :: Germany | 2 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

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

London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

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

La Grange :: IL :: USA | 4 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

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

Takoma Park :: MD :: USA | 7 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

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

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 8 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

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

Auckland :: New Zealand | 8 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

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

Port of Spain :: Trinidad and Tobago | 9 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

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

Posted by: kcoffman  | 

Seattle :: WA :: USA | 27 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 2

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

Posted by: MichaelNunn  | 

Auckland :: New Zealand | about 1 month ago

Credibility Credibility of 1

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

Posted by: EvanKarp  | 

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

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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