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Revisiting Federico Garcia Lorca in a novel -- and in the writer's own voice
The great poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was already one of Spain's most popular writers when he was executed by right-wing militiamen in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. His body has never been found. The shadowy circumstances...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Poetry, Spain, Book
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READER SUBMITTED: Young Poets Day At Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Features Young Writers And Tracy K. Smith
StatewideOn Wednesday June 12, opening night of Hill-Stead Museum's prestigious Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, winners and selected readers from eight Connecticut poetry programs will gather for the annual Fresh Voices reading in the historic Sunken Garden. In...Tags: Music, The New York Times, Politics, Poetry, Entertainment Events
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Author Lisa Scottoline talks grief, crabs, podiatry
On paper, Lisa Scottoline is a little intimidating. She's got more than 30 million copies in print of her books, including 20 best-selling novels. She writes a weekly column, with her daughter, for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She's a graduate of...
Tags: Harvard University, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health and Medical Professionals, Lifestyle and Leisure, University of Pennsylvania
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Graduates must resist the urge for simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world into...Tags: Class Conflict, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Yale University, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln
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On Education: James Ellroy enthralls GCC
If anyone worried James Ellroy might dumb down the salty language laced throughout his crime novels for an appearance at Glendale Community College this week, they wouldn't have been disappointed. Within 90 seconds of taking the stage, the author of "L....
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities, Arts and Culture, Students
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READER SUBMITTED: Rensselaer At Hartford's Acting Dean Authors Book On The Pursuit Of Sustainable Leadership
HartfordDavid L. Rainey, Ph.D., acting dean, Rensselaer at Hartford, and professor of practice in the Lally School of Management and Technology, has authored the book, "The Pursuit of Sustainable Leadership: Becoming a Successful Strategic Leader through...Tags: Book, Teaching and Learning, Education, Teachers, Rensselaer at Hartford
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READER SUBMITTED: New York Writers Studio Comes To Connecticut: Hill-Stead Museum Offers Teacher Workshop
FarmingtonFrom June 24 through June 26, during Hill-Stead's Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz will lead a three-day introduction to his Writers Studio Method for teachers and writers. This innovative program utilizes the...Tags: Columbia University, Poetry, Politics, Dyslexia, Entertainment Events
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To the Class of 2013: Resist simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world that...
Tags: Class Conflict, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Yale University, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln
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Pasadena's writer-driven LitFest gets bigger this Saturday
If Los Angeles can have a book festival -- the just-concluded Los Angeles Times Festival of Books -- and even the suburb of nearby Duarte (pop. 21,000) can have one, why not Pasadena? Pasadena is famous for the Rose Parade, Caltech and Jackie Robinson,...
Tags: Jonathan Gold, Literature, Arts and Culture, Festive Events
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Hans M. Wuerth: 'Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people'
When on Jan. 30, 1933, then-German President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as the country's chancellor, it changed German as well as world history. Twelve years later, Hitler ended his own life, but not before millions of victims had perished. Several...Tags: Moravian College, Fine Artists, Politics, Ernest Hemingway, Government
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Review: "Bunker Hill" by Nathaniel Philbrick
"I cannot pretend to describe the horror of the scene," Adjutant John Waller, a British soldier, would write of the Battle of Bunker Hill. He nevertheless tries. Inside the fortifications, as the British overwhelmed the provincial forces, "'twas streaming...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, Pulitzer Prize Awards, George Washington, Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Kingdom
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To do Thursday: Delray's On the Ave, author Ben Greenman and singer Nicole Henry
Books Ben Greenman: "It's not the most-exciting thing to get up in a bookstore and read a book that you wrote," this Miami-raised writer said in a 2011 interview. "It's not as interesting I would guess — though I've never done it — as...
Tags: Music, Stevie Nicks, Coral Gables, Arts, Britney Spears
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