Tag: arts
group name: mnreaders
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December 06, 2007 06:10 PM EST --
(humming:) "The weather outside is frightful...."
It's the perfect time of year for curling up with a good book. Except of course for all the holiday festivities, family gatherings, . . . more
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February 04, 2008 11:28 AM EST --
This is going to be a GREAT month for reading. I just know it. Why? Because later this month my 'significantly other' and I are going away for a four-day weekend, and all we plan to do is . . . more
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February 01, 2007 11:01 PM EST --
The cold has set in here in St. Paul, which makes me seek the warmth of a good book. And since it's the season of St. Valentine, why not something a little on the romantic side? It doesn't have . . . more
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August 25, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
I"m right now reading a book titled "What Good are the Arts?" by John Carey, the chief book reviewer of The Sunday Times in London. In it, Carey takes a pretty bold stance that can be summed . . . more
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October 02, 2006 06:14 PM EDT --
What are you reading these days? Seems to be a lot of activity at Gather.com around the Book it to Bermuda Cruise, sponsored by PRBS and Gather, and for the book review contest that's part of it all. . . . more
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May 18, 2007 04:06 PM EDT --
Yesterday I went to the Duluth Art Institute for the opening reception of an exhibit of paintings by Ann Jenkins. Glorious, wonderful paintings.
But I also got to talk . . . more
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December 20, 2006 03:13 PM EST --
I favor mysteries for light reading – Brother Cadfael (Ellis Peters), Adam Dalgleish (PD James), Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy Sayers) and, of course, Agatha Christie and Dick Francis. But . . . more
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February 14, 2007 10:46 AM EST --
Reported by Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio
February 14, 2007
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It's safe to say not many of us have ever heard of writer Joseph Kalar. He was a contemporary of . . . more
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March 23, 2007 05:46 PM EDT --
Reported by Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio
March 23, 2007
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Poetry readers in Duluth are celebrating the appearance of a new book. It's a collection of poems by . . . more
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April 07, 2008 04:48 PM EDT --
So I really thought is was spring - really, I was pretty darn sure - so I got out all my gardening books, started making plans for the garden, and then.... snow. And more snow. And snow mixed with rain. . . . more
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March 28, 2007 06:56 PM EDT --
Reported by Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio
March 28, 2007
Jim Perlman's Holy Cow! Press is celebrating 30 years in business. It is one of the oldest presses in . . . more
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July 10, 2007 04:51 PM EDT --
Broadcast: Midmorning, 07/06/2007, 10:06 a.m.
Midmorning talks with a nature photographer whose new book celebrates African-Americans in the outdoors and looks at how to increase minority participation . . . more
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May 03, 2007 07:22 AM EDT --
The jury seems conflicted on this. I put my heart and soul into my novel, carried my characters in the pockets of my brain for years. As my manuscript sits in a file, I miss them. I wrote the novel online-- . . . more
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October 11, 2006 12:24 PM EDT --
Indian writer Kiran Desai, who at the age of 35 has become the youngest woman ever to win Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, Wednesday recalled her parent's efforts . . . more
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September 01, 2006 02:54 PM EDT --
I've about generated as much enthusiasm for back-to-school that I could with my kids, in the last few days. I've also gone back-to school shopping about as much as I can lately, never mind the . . . more
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November 15, 2006 12:47 PM EST --
Books are just about the best gift. You can give anyone a book, even if they look at you with a perplexed expression that says "why," they're still a great gift. It gets people thinking, . . . more
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May 28, 2007 05:27 PM EDT --
I love this little book and I’m not a knitter. I knit but how can someone who's spent more than two years trying to knit one hat -- call themselves a knitter? I do love knitters and knitted things. . . . more
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October 23, 2006 02:35 PM EDT --
I read Augusten Burroughs book, "Running with Scissors" when it came out in 2002 and was excited to see that it was being made into a movie. The movie opened in selected theaters this past week-end . . . more
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October 12, 2006 10:49 AM EDT --
Turkey's best-known novelist Orhan Pamuk, who faced trial this year for insulting his country, won the 2006 Nobel prize for Literature on Thursday.
"In the quest for the melancholic . . . more
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April 16, 2007 12:44 AM EDT --
An incident: a woman I had regarded as my best friend for ten years invited me for coffee. "So lovely to hear your voice," she'd said in her voicemail mesage, a response to my having called . . . more
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