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Five-Day Poetry Challenge | A Poet's Double Life
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News from the Corner Office. A Poet's Double Life. For poets working outside the literary world. July 30, 2015. Five-Day Poetry Challenge – DONE! The 5-day poetry challenge is a popular meme where you post one of your poems (preferably published) to your Facebook timeline then tag another poet to continue the challenge. Last week, I was double-tagged by poets Anna Weaver. I selected poems from the range of themes I tend to visit and revisit in my work:. My Mother’s Child. Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015. 8220;...
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Jonathan Franzen: Comma-Then | Work in Progress
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Read the latest…. Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels (. Freedom, The Corrections, Strong Motion,. A collection of essays (. How to Be Alone. A personal history (. And a translation of Frank Wedekind’s. All published by FSG. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California. The following piece is excerpted from his new book. As a conjunction without a subject following it. She lit a Camel Light, then dragged deeply. He dims the lamp and opens the window, then pulls the body inside. When I g...
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Rain: A Dust Bowl Story
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Rain: A Dust Bowl Story. The story of a 1930's family fighting a storm. Join a new community of readers and bloggers. The story of a young Texas farm family struggling through the Dust Bowl debuts here, with a new mini-episode added each day. Contribute your interests in literature, history, and human nature. The author, Shelley Shaver, will visit the blog daily and respond. Imagine your world is stolen. Your grandparents survived it all before you. That’s the story. Horton Foote, playwright of. I worked...
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Twelve Writers on New and Recent Fiction | On the Seawall: A Literary Website by Ron Slate (GD)
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The Incentive of the Maggot. Ron Slate's second book of poetry, is now available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Join the "On the Seawall" Facebook Group for updates and more. Follow Ron Slate on Twitter. Twelve Writers on New and Recent Fiction. April 11th, 2012. Waiting For Sunrise,. A novel by William Boyd (Harper). From the Land of the Moon,. A novel by Milena Agus (Europa Editions). The Quiet Twin,. A novel by Dan Vyleta (Bloomsbury). My Prizes: An Accounting,. A memoir by Thomas Bernhard (Knopf).
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[AUDIO] China's controversial trade in Africa's natural resources - The China Africa Project
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The China Africa Project China in Africa. Latest from the CAP. AUDIO] Who’d you rather work for in Kenya: a U.S. or Chinese company? AUDIO] China spends billions in Egypt to woo the ‘Arab Street’. AUDIO] Donkey hide is the new ivory for the Chinese in Africa. Chinese E-commerce Meets East African Tech. AUDIO] Chinese media’s African identity crisis. AUDIO] Get Ready Africa, the Big “Trump-Shift” to China is Coming. AUDIO] The hollow rules governing China-Africa investment. Raquo; [AUDIO] China’s co...
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on Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau) | On the Seawall: A Literary Website by Ron Slate (GD)
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The Incentive of the Maggot. Ron Slate's second book of poetry, is now available from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Join the "On the Seawall" Facebook Group for updates and more. Follow Ron Slate on Twitter. On Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel and Grau). August 5th, 2015. At Cambridge University in 1965, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. debated the following question:* Has the American Dream been achieved at the expense of the Negro? Do will help you or your children. A screed ...
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Bogus Trend-spotting: Suicide Spates | Sinostand
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Culture, politics and business of China. Stay updated via RSS. I Have No Idea What’s Going to Happen in China and Neither Do You. Announcing My New Book: China’s Millennials. Facebook and the Timing of Entering China. Why We Need to Stop Sharing Global Times Editorials. China’s Troubled Media. Bogus Trend-spotting: Suicide Spates. 4 Things We Overlook About Tiananmen. Getting “Educated”. On Xia Yeliang…. Video: Behind China’s College Military Training. Will Zhou Stay or Will He Go? The Hard Long Slog.
