Tour is a Web feature and podcast. Each week, we present leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work. Everyone loves a dog story (at least, everyone should), and everyone loves an author who, after decades of laboring in obscurity, hits it big with his very first novel.
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Jul
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Jun
The progressive movement has prided itself on its ability to get its messages out by harnessing the Internet, through organizations like MoveOn.org and blogs like Daily Kos or The Huffington Post.
But now a liberal-minded group is returning to an old-fashioned model: a book club.
As with a classic book club, members of the new club will [...]
4
Jun
The Beguiling specialty bookstore is proud to present two great graphic novel events this June, appealing to the vast breadth of graphic novel aficionados in the city of Toronto! The first event features acclaimed Norwegian cartoonist JASON–currently serializing his newest work in The New York Times Magazine–as he comes to Toronto to launch his new [...]
21
Apr
Follow the stairs down one flight to the performance space and see if the evening offers a reading, a concert or a D.J. spinning dance music late into the night. Take one more flight down to street level and that�s when things start to get a little strange. Not quite Alice in Wonderland strange, but [...]
21
Apr
Follow the stairs down one flight to the performance space and see if the evening offers a reading, a concert or a D.J. spinning dance music late into the night. Take one more flight down to street level and that�s when things start to get a little strange. Not quite Alice in Wonderland strange, but [...]
21
Apr
Follow the stairs down one flight to the performance space and see if the evening offers a reading, a concert or a D.J. spinning dance music late into the night. Take one more flight down to street level and that�s when things start to get a little strange. Not quite Alice in Wonderland strange, but [...]
16
Apr
WASHINGTON — A museum devoted to the history and practice of journalism is scheduled to open April 11 in Washington.
The Newseum, located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, is designed to be both fun and educational, with a goal of teaching visitors about the free press and the First Amendment.
One gallery features every photograph that ever [...]
8
Apr
LOS ANGELES - Jay-Z is close to reaching a $150 million deal with Live Nation Inc. that will give the concert promoter a stake in virtually every aspect of the rapper and entrepreneur’s career, according to news reports.The contract covers Jay-Z’s music and music-related businesses for the next 10 years, the New York Times and [...]
4
Apr
Jorie Graham is the author of eleven collections of poetry and she currently holds a position as the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. In 1996, her book �Dream Of The Unified Field� won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and she has received numerous honors throughout her career including the John [...]
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Mar
This story was written by Jonathan Martin.
For months, Republican party officials have watched with increasing trepidation as Barack Obama has shattered fundraising records, packed arena after arena with shrieking fans and pulled in significant Republican and independent votes.
Now, with the emergence of the notorious video portraying Rev. Jeremiah Wright damning the country, criticizing Israel, [...]
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