by | Feb 20, 2008 | Mirth
Reporter Gets Bird Poop In Mouth During Newscast Atlanta, GA 1/30/2008 04:50 PM GMT (FINDITT) A reporter gets a rude surprise as a bird pooped in his mouth during a piece he was covering. The video has been e-mailed and sent all across the country. Many people are...
by | Feb 20, 2008 | Literary News
from Shelf Awareness newsletter If setting a good example will increase the number of readers in the U.S., then Amanda Patchin, owner of Veritas Fine Books, Garden City, Idaho, is setting an example extraordinaire. Her goal is to read 200 books–79,349...
by | Feb 19, 2008 | Literary News
Press Association Monday February 18, 2008 guardian.co.uk Alain Robbe-Grillet, a “new novelist” and film-maker who rejected conventional storytelling and was one of France’s most important avant-garde writers has died at the age of 85. Robbe-Grillet...
by | Feb 17, 2008 | Culture Music Art
Lauded as one of the most influential events in the history of American art, the Armory Show has a mythic legacy that rivals the raucous opening of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet, The Rite of Spring in Paris. In the wake of previous large independent art exhibitions...
by | Feb 15, 2008 | Literary News
Ian Thomson reviews a collection of Malcolm Lowry’s poems, letters and fictions Malcolm Lowry was a ferocious malcontent, who free-wheeled towards an early grave with the help of cooking sherry, meths, even bottles of skin bracer. From skid row to bedlam and...
