by | Jan 15, 2009 | Mirth
from the San Jose Mercury News Deal to sell daughter for beer, cash part of Mexican culture By LARRY PARSONS – MEDIANEWS Posted: 01/13/2009 06:55:33 PM PST The story of the Greenfield man who allegedly sold his 14-year-old daughter to a young suitor for cash...
by | Jan 15, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Los Angeles
from The New York Times Injecting a Taste of the Flush and Flashy ’80s Into Sundance Van Redin/Senator Entertainment Mickey Rourke in “The Informers,” a film showing at Sundance that was adapted from a book of Bret Easton Ellis stories. By MICHAEL CIEPLY LOS ANGELES —...
by | Jan 14, 2009 | Literary News
from New Scientist Novels help to uphold social order WHY does storytelling endure across time and cultures? Perhaps the answer lies in our evolutionary roots. A study of the way that people respond to Victorian literature hints that novels act as a social glue,...
by | Jan 14, 2009 | Culture Music Art
by | Jan 13, 2009 | Literary News
from the NY Times Fiction Reading Increases for Adults By MOTOKO RICH After years of bemoaning the decline of a literary culture in the United States, the National Endowment for the Arts says in a report that it now believes a quarter-century of precipitous decline in...
