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Jewell Cardwell: Flash mob draws crowd to celebrate friend battling cancer
“It’s not the length of life, but the depth of life,” essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson was fond of saying. Scores of folks - some of them too young to read Emerson - seemed to know the wisdom of that Wednesday, instinctively or by parental prodding. So they got dressed, mostly in white, and made their way to...
ohio.com (7 days ago)
Theatre review: The Amen Corner, Olivier, National Theatre, London
In the English theatre, you can go for years without bumping into either of the two best-known plays by James Baldwin, the African-American essayist, novelist and eloquent spokesman for the Civil Rights movement.
independent.co.uk (8 days ago)
Ronald K. Brown: Beyond The Four Corners
Last year, I received a call from Robert Battle, Artistic Director for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. He shared with me that the company would be performing at Lincoln Center for the first time in over a decade and asked if I would be willing to create something new for the engagement. I was excited...
huffingtonpost.com (8 days ago)
NW by Zadie Smith
Date: Wednesday 17 JulyTime: 7pmVenue: Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AGTickets: £11.50/£9.50Book tickets Join Zadie Smith for a discussion of her latest novel, NW. In NW, Smith revisits the northwestern corner of London which inspired her acclaimed debut White Teeth. From Willesden and Kilburn, to...
guardian.co.uk (9 days ago)
Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals by Amy Leach – review
Nature writing is a boom industry in Britain, but it's nature writing of a particular flavour: astringent, controlled, in impeccably good taste. I can't think of anyone in these islands who writes like the American essayist Amy Leach, with such mad, magical exuberance and whimsy. This is a collection in the school...
guardian.co.uk (11 days ago)
Montserrat Domínguez: Happy Birthday, HuffPost Spain!
A journalism that doesn't defend its right to offend, that doesn't tweak noses and laugh at the naked emperor is not worth fighting for. A journalism that doesn't stand up for the powerless will soon become a tool of power. Equally, a journalism that wrecks lives will soon find itself without readers. Journalism...
huffingtonpost.com (12 days ago)
A Play For Susan Sontag
NEW YORK -- If you recall your youthful diaries or journals as being on the shallow side, you'll really cringe when comparing them to the ambitious eloquence to be found in essayist Susan Sontag's published journals. Sontag, who died in 2004, is considered one of the most influential writers of her time, with works...
huffingtonpost.com (12 days ago)
Things That Are by Amy Leach – review
Things That Are is Amy Leach's first book. It could happily be filed under fiction, non-fiction, poetry, philosophy or science. Concerned as it is with the natural world and the oneness of the universe, it collapses categories. By and large, the 26 pieces here are short, pithy, and packed with information delivered...
guardian.co.uk (13 days ago)
Review: Susan Sontag is doubled in new play homage
Review: 'Sontag: Reborn' is an insightful one-woman homage to essayist Susan Sontag
msn.com (13 days ago)
Review: Susan Sontag is doubled in new play homage
NEW YORK (AP) - If you recall your youthful diaries or journals as being on the shallow side, you'll really cringe when comparing them to the ambitious eloquence to be found in essayist Susan Sontag's published journals.
yahoo.com (13 days ago)
Review: Susan Sontag is doubled in new play homage
If you recall your youthful diaries or journals as being on the shallow side, you'll really cringe when comparing them to the ambitious eloquence to be found in essayist Susan Sontag's published journals.
miamiherald.com (13 days ago)
Technology's Foes: Romantics Or Luddites?
In a May 19 commencement speech essayist Leon Wieseltier, with his flowing mane of white hair and looking every bit like a mad Old Testament prophet, threw a bolt at Brandeis University's graduating class:
forbes.com (14 days ago)
Essayist speaks to HC graduates
WORCESTER - Most commencement speakers are more than happy to dole out personal advice on how graduates may better their futures, but not Anne Fadiman, the acclaimed essayist whose book "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1997.
telegram.com (26 days ago)
Talk Saturday on author's cattle ranch novels
Essayist and author John Clayton will present “Happily Ever Aftering on a Montana Cattle Ranch,” a discussion of author Caroline Lockhart at 6 p.m. on Saturday at the Pictograph Cave State Par…
billingsgazette.com (27 days ago)
PHOTOS: Topless Activist Arrested At Notre Dame Day After Essayist's Suicide
A topless activist of the FEMEN movement was arrested inside Notre Dame Cathedral Wednesday, one day after far-right essayist and historian Dominique Vesser committed suicide in the Paris landmark. The bare-chested woman was photographed in front of the altar, pointing a fake gun at her mouth. The slogan "May...
huffingtonpost.com (28 days ago)
Femen protester stages mock suicide at Notre Dame cathedral
A member of the militant feminist group Femen, known for its provocative topless protests, on Wednesday staged a mock suicide in Notre Dame cathedral in the French capital, less than 24 hours after a far-right historian killed himself there in front of visitors and church-goers. Posing with a pistol in her mouth the...
guardian.co.uk (28 days ago)
Suicide on Paris cathedral altar stirs France's far right
The public suicide in Paris of Dominique Venner, a 78-year-old right-wing French historian and essayist, has stirred a strong political reaction in the country.
cbc.ca (28 days ago)
French Far Right Reacts To Essayist's Suicide At Notre Dame
Dominique Venner committed suicide on Tuesday in front of the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The death of the 78-year-old essayist and historian sparked numerous reactions from French nationalists. Several executives and members of the country's far-right National Front party took to Twitter to praise...
huffingtonpost.com (29 days ago)
Water, water everywhere
Loren Eiseley, American essayist, philosopher and literary naturalist once wrote: “If there is any magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”
thetandd.com (30 days ago)
Nancy Doyle Palmer: The Good Bishop -- A Biography by Phyllis Theroux
It's a simple equation -- you take a good writer and a good subject and you get a good book. Such is the math for The Good Bishop by acclaimed writer and essayist Phyllis Theroux -- a commissioned oral history of the late Catholic Bishop Walter F. Sullivan that turned into a full-fledged biography once Theroux...
huffingtonpost.com (1 month ago)
Guest Post: The Brewing Generational Conflict
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, Financial promises made under different conditions and assumptions are null and void, period. Essayist Eric A. touched on a key theme of the next decade in his two-part series A Brief History of Cycles and Time, Part 1 and Part 2: the political, social and...
zerohedge.com (1 month and 4 days ago)
Flashback Springfield: May 13, 1932
A look back at the news 81 years ago: The kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., son of an American hero and his wife, was a story that so captivated the world, newspaper writer and essayist H.L. Mencken called it the “biggest story since the Resurrection.”
sj-r.com (1 month and 7 days ago)
Andromeda Romano-Lax: 10 Things I Learned as a Writer From Fitzgerald's Gatsby
A warning first: There will be no high-school essayist's hunt for symbols (the green light of Daisy's dock, Dr. Eckleburg's big eyes that see all) or any critical comment on the music chosen for the new Baz Luhrmann adaptation opening this weekend (I loved Moulin Rouge and applaud a director for freshening up a...
huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 9 days ago)
Optimism is appealing, but pessimism, alarm and anxiety are more my thing | Ian Jack
Some believe the world, and humanity, is still capable of improving itself, but the endorsements for pessimism are often more persuasiveAt this week's memorial service for Eric Hobsbawm, who died last year aged 95, several speakers touched on the distinguished historian's scepticism about the world's ability to...
guardian.co.uk (1 month and 23 days ago)
Two Cheers for CNN
It has not been a good week for CNN. Or month or year or–you get the point. True, the network got huge ratings with the coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, as CNN does with big breaking news. But the way it got there was not pretty, with a colossal live misreport about a nonexistent arrest a week ago. Before...
time.com (1 month and 25 days ago)
David Sedaris, my imaginary friend
'Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls' offers fresh tales of the essayist's life and travel travails.When a friend gets rich and famous and moves to Paris, then prattles on about the nutty things that French dentists say, that's grounds for never speaking to that person again. When the friend in question is an imaginary...
latimes.com (2 months and 2 days ago)
Nikki Giovanni announced as Winston-Salem State commencement speaker
Nikki Giovanni, an award-winning poet, essayist, novelist and educator, will speak at Winston-Salem State University’s 2013 commencement on May 18, university officials said Friday.
journalnow.com (2 months and 2 days ago)
Older Tsarnaev brother: 'I don't understand' Americans
'I don't have a single American friend,' Tamerlan told an essayist.
usatoday.com (2 months and 2 days ago)
Fields Pond Book Discussion Group: Broadsides from the Other Orders by Sue Hubbell
Hubbell, a beekeeper-turned-essayist has a fondness for bugs and insects and after reading her notes on camel crickets, gypsy moths, and water striders, among other creatures, you will as well. Her appreciation extends even to bugs that we may find noxious. Location: Bangor Public Library Thursday, May 9, 6:30 p.m. ...
bangordailynews.com (2 months and 3 days ago)
Texas Book Festival: San Antonio's new literary device
Texas Book Festival: San Antonio's new literary device Express-News Copyright 2013 Express-News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 4:29 pm, Saturday, April 13, 2013 “It has brought all these people together, older people, young people — the...
mysanantonio.com (2 months and 8 days ago)
