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2 hrs ago | Honolulu Weekly

Every Reader for Himself

Confirming rumors, Barnes & Noble's Kahala Mall bookstore will close when its lease expires in January 2014.

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Related Topix: Arts, Drink, Coffee

2 hrs ago | Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Interview: Alana Terry, Author of The Beloved Daughter

A homeschooling mother of three, Alana Terry penned her debut Christian novel The Beloved Daughter and went on to win second place in the Women of Faith writing contest.

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Related Topix: Women of Faith, Christian Music, North Korea, World News, Asia, Arts

3 hrs ago | Patch.com

NEH Grant to Study Portsmouth Author's Novel

A Portsmouth resident's 1993 hypertext novel will be studied under a National Endowment for the Humanities grant awarded to the Electronic Literature Organization , the group announced on their Web site last Friday.

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Related Topix: Portsmouth, RI, Arts, Computers

4 hrs ago | Nine O'Clock

Literature - a chance for romance and civism

While in Cluj to be awarded the doctor honoris causa degree of the Babes-Bolyai University, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa continued the public dialogue started eight years ago with his Romanian publisher, philosopher Gabriel Liceanu.

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Related Topix: Arts, Romania, World News

5 hrs ago | Denver Westword

Ten musicians fueled by existentialism

Music is filled with surprises. For every good-looking rebel working diligently to bring sexy back, there's a bookish nerd sitting in a dim corner furiously scribbling esoteric poetry in a lyrics journal.

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Related Topix: Arts, Theater

8 hrs ago | Brandon Sun

With Cannes debut of his 'As I Lay Dying,' James Franco builds a bookish filmography

The 35-year-old American has already played poets Allen Ginsberg and Hart Crane .

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Related Topix: Howl, Metal, As I Lay Dying, James Franco, Movies, Entertainment, New York University, Arts

9 hrs ago | American Reporter

American OpinionA Plea to the Modern Reader

Recently. as a requirement for a literature symposium. I was forced to read a number of "great" late 19th Century short stories, most of which were far from great, much less enjoyable.

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Related Topix: Arts

13 hrs ago | UnionLeader.com

Congo war's legacy follows survivor to NH

Coco Ramazani's life is the subject of the book "Tell This to My Mother." The Manchester woman, who escaped from a military camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is HIV-positive and wants to get her story out before she dies.

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Related Topix: World News, Congo, Africa, Manchester, NH, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Arts

17 hrs ago | Seattle Times

Education reform is only part of answer to student achievement

"I retired several years ago from teaching high school. I still sub. On Monday I was supposed to supervise peer editing of a research paper on the Industrial Revolution.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Arts, Opinion

18 hrs ago | IBerkshires

'The Great Gatsby': A Bit Jazzed-Up

Too bad the 1926, silent version of "The Great Gatsby," filmed only a year after F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the book, is missing.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pop/Rock, Comedy Movies, Biography Movies, Moulin Rouge, Musical Movies, Ernest Hemingway, Vocal, Arts

Tue May 21, 2013

Metro Times

Steam Dreaming

As a subgenre, a movement, a fashion statement, steampunk has worn a dozen garments and none of them fit exactly the same.

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Related Topix: Arts, The Fiction, Alternative, California

InvestmentNews

So where are all the revolutionary new investment theories?

Investment management is supposed to be built on brilliant minds' novel insights and innovative approaches - or so our training and traditions have led us to believe.

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Related Topix: Warren Buffett, Arts, Science / Technology, Inventions

EERE Network News

DOE Has Issued Request for Information Regarding Rotating Disk...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office has issued a request for information seeking feedback from interested stakeholders regarding the use of rotating disk electrode experiments and best practices for experimental conditions for characterization of the activity and durability of proton exchange membrane fuel cell oxygen ... (more)

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Related Topix: Department of Energy, Arts

Edutopia

Hitting the Books: Summer Reading Recommends

I know a vacation is coming when stacks of books next to my bed start growing. I've started to notice that building those stacks makes the final weeks of the year easier -- the visual reminder of the upcoming break.

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Related Topix: Arts

York Press

Top writers, speakers and thinkers to descend on York for Festival of Ideas

THIS year's York Festival of Ideas, which kicks off on June 13, will be tackling the North-South divide head on.

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Related Topix: Melvyn Bragg, Arts, The Great Divide, Country

New Hampshire Public Radio -

Clamoring For Tolstoy...In Juvie?

"Books Behind Bars" is program which pairs undergraduates from the University of Virginia with inmates at the Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center to read classic Russian literature.

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Related Topix: University of Virginia, Arts

The American Scholar

The Teaching Cure

One of the most important moments in my teaching career came about 25 years ago when I contemplated leaving it.

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Related Topix: Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Drexel University

The Spectator

Dangerous romance - Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley

'The bus company's yellow tin sign on its concrete post seemed for a long while a forlorn flag announcing nothing,' notes Stella, the narrator of Tessa Hadley's new novel Clever Girl .

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Related Topix: Arts

Mon May 20, 2013

SF Signal

SFFWRTCHT: A Chat With Author/Professor Doctor Charles E. Gannon

Doctor Charles E. Gannon is a Distinguished Professor of English at St. Bonaventure University.

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Related Topix: Saint Bonaventure University, Arts

Salon.com

SAT's right answers are all wrong

HAVING SHARPENED THEIR #2 PENCILS, my teenage daughters are about to take this spring's battery of standardized tests, leaving me to wonder what these tests mean - about their education, about the culture of college my husband and I are preparing them for, about American values.

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Related Topix: Standardized Testing, Education, Arts, Education Etc.