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Writers - any plans for the weekend?
Writers -- If you're planning on checking out the MyTime Women's Show at the Hampton Roads Convention Center tomorrow (Sat., Jan. 12), I'd love to meet you and chat about writing. Also, if you're interested in having a new release featured in Writers'...
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Toni Morrison celebrates life with friends
Several weeks ago, I wrote about seeing award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni speak at TNCC. During that talk, Giovanni told us she was looking forward to an upcoming event at Virginia Tech to honor her friend, celebrated author Toni Morrison. The event,...Tags: Poetry, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou
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The Question: What was your favorite book as a child?
!["'The Jungle Book' by Rudyard Kipling. I thought I was Mowgli, or I wanted to be Mowgli and have talking critters as friends. Absolutely, I wanted to escape the ghetto. I wanted to get out of poverty and live in some place magical. It seemed to me that if you wanted to be raised by wolves and have Akela be your pal, the world of "The Jungle Book" would be it."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/67580965-23163107-187105.JPG ""'The Jungle Book' by Rudyard Kipling. I thought I was Mowgli, or I wanted to be Mowgli and have talking critters as friends. Absolutely, I wanted to escape the ghetto. I wanted to get out of poverty and live in some place magical. It seemed to me that if you wanted to be raised by wolves and have Akela be your pal, the world of \"The Jungle Book\" would be it.\"")
"'The Jungle Book' by Rudyard Kipling. I thought I was Mowgli, or I wanted to be Mowgli and have talking critters as friends. Absolutely, I wanted to escape the ghetto. I wanted to get out of poverty and live in some place magical. It seemed to me that if...Tags: Rudyard Kipling, Arts and Culture, Chicago Tribune, Doris Lessing, Frances Hodgson Burnett
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An interview with Amandeep Sandhu
![When local author <a href="http://www.stoopstorytelling.com/storytellers/940" target="_blank">Rosalia Scalia</a> visited India, she was able to sit down with <a href="http://www.amandeepsandhu.com/" target="_blank">Amandeep Sandhu,</a> author of "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sepia-Leaves-Amandeep-Sandhu/dp/8183860079" target="_blank">Sepia Leaves."</a> She was kind enough to recount her meeting for Read Street. We'll break her missive into a parts, starting with her description of the encounter, and bit of a Q&A. More of the interview will follow tomorrow. Here, then, is Rosalia:](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/145365660-21152852.jpg "When local author <a href="http://www.stoopstorytelling.com/storytellers/940\" target=\"_blank\">Rosalia Scalia</a> visited India, she was able to sit down with <a href=\"http://www.amandeepsandhu.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Amandeep Sandhu,</a> author of \"<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Sepia-Leaves-Amandeep-Sandhu/dp/8183860079\" target=\"_blank\">Sepia Leaves.\"</a> She was kind enough to recount her meeting for Read Street. We'll break her missive into a parts, starting with her description of the encounter, and bit of a Q&A. More of the interview will follow tomorrow. Here, then, is Rosalia:")
When local author Rosalia Scalia visited India, she was able to sit down with Amandeep Sandhu, author of "Sepia Leaves." She was kind enough to recount her meeting for Read Street. We'll break her missive into a parts, starting with her description of the...Tags: India, Cadence Design Systems Incorporated, Media Industry, Arts and Culture, Delhi (India)
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For many parents, books that can be held are still the first choice
Jo Keller relies on her Kindle when she travels so she can forgo lugging hardback books, but when it comes to her children's reading habits, she feels differently.
She has squirreled away many of the books she read as a child growing up in England and is...Tags: Apple iPad, Books and Magazines, Technology, Books, Bowie
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Maryland has a new go-to role on television — Washington
For almost two decades, Baltimore was mainly seen by the TV industry as a place to make shows about cops and crime. But now, the city is looking more like the nation's capital to some of Hollywood's top producers.
On Thursday, Gov. Martin O'Malley...Tags: Woody Harrelson, Career and Workplace, Executive Branch, Elections, Golden Globe Awards
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Interest in writer Jane Austen grows
Have you been to a major bookstore recently? Perhaps you've noticed the book “The Jane Austen Book Club.” There are innumerable novels about Mr. Darcy, the male protagonist of “Pride and Prejudice.” And let's not forget “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,”...Tags: Movies, Courtship, Movies, Arts and Culture, Discrimination
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Comedy night headliner specializes in 'friendly ghoulishness'
Two comedians will perform Saturday night Down Under at the Ramada Convention Center, 2727 Sixth Ave. S.E. Telling jokes will be Don Reese and Paul Wiese. Reese is an Iowa native. “Take a young boy born in the Midwest, feed him a steady diet of...Tags: Stand-up Comedy, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Comedy (genre), Stand-up Comedy
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Bookmark: Essay collections show diversity, creativity
He loved lists, so let's make one in his honor. The late John Leonard was brilliant, witty, earnest, brave, erudite, stubborn, poetic and totally smitten by literature. I never met him, but I can swear to the foregoing because I read his work for many...Tags: Book, Gloria Steinem, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Chicago Tribune
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Holocaust survivor shares story at NSU in Aberdeen
In June 1944, when Robert Fisch was 19 years old, he was sent to a work camp in German-occupied Hungarybecause he was Jewish. At the camp, he was forced to work until he was transferred to a concentration camp in Germanyin January 1945. There, he...Tags: Colleges and Universities, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning, Education
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Are you smarter than a fifth-grader?
It was, if recollection is accurate, in the fifth grade that I got my first thoroughgoing instruction in English grammar and usage. My fifth- and sixth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Jessie Perkins, and my seventh- and eighth-grade English teacher, Mrs....Tags: Ohio University, Arts and Culture, Literature
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Lynchburg high school publication ranked among nation's best
Reporter/Lynchburg Bureau ChiefSome Lynchburg students are getting special attention for their unique talents. Heritage High School's literary and arts magazine, Avant Garde, is ranked among the nation's best student publications. It was one of 20 in Virginia to be recognized this...Tags: Periodicals, Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning, Education, Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia)
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