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N.Y. school drops 'God Bless the USA' from kindergarten ceremony
Pop & HissLee Greenwood's patriotic hit "God Bless the U.S.A." has been eliminated from a kindergarten promotion ceremony in Brooklyn, N.Y. The school's principal said some of the lyrics were not appropriate for 5-year-olds to sing.... -
Look East Korean film fest: 'Poetry,' 'The Host' in 3-D top lineup
24 FramesThe first annual "Look East: Korean Film Festival," which takes place at Grauman's Chinese Theater on June 23-24, announced its line-up Monday.... -
Summer reading: Fiction, poetry
Busy Monsters William Giraldi W.W. Norton: $24.95 When a mediocre writer's bride-to-be leaves him to search for a legendary giant squid, he treks across the continent seeking counsel from nefarious creatures on how to win back her affections. (August)...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Joseph Conrad, Baghdad (Iraq), Princeton University, Ralph Ellison
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Book review: 'The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry'
Los Angeles TimesThe FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry An Anthology Edited by Ilan Stavans Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 729 pp., $50 Here's the answer to a hypothetical "Jeopardy" query: "Who are Pablo Neruda and, um…?" And now, the question:...Tags: Politics, Star Sailing, Octavio Paz, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Bly
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The Siren's Call: Henry's game of thrones
If you've been eagerly awaiting the new season of "Game of Thrones," which starts Sunday on HBO, Thomas Penn's "Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England" (Simon & Schuster: 448 pp., $30) offered an ideal way to bide your time (if you weren't...Tags: Literature, England, Arts and Culture, HBO (tv network), Fiction
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The Siren's Call: A once and future epic
Behind the action of Simon Armitage's marvelous translation of the Middle English epic "The Death of King Arthur" (W.W. Norton: 306 pp., $26.95), there's an unmistakable mood of bitterness. It has nothing to do with Arthur's fate — yes, there's...Tags: Literature, Bernard Cornwell, England, Arts and Culture, United Kingdom
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San Francisco literary festival Litquake just keeps growing
You can't throw a New Yorker magazine in San Francisco without hitting a writer. This fog-bound city might be more famous for steep hills and sourdough, but step inside one of its many independent bookstores and coffeehouses and you'll find more...Tags: Chelsea Handler, Arts, Juvenile Delinquency, Arts and Culture, Republic of Ireland
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Tracking Wallace Stegner's footprints in Vermont's earth
Wallace Stegner wrote books about the American and Canadian West, so it's understandable that people consider the longtime California resident a Western author. Stegner, a prolific novelist, essayist, conservation advocate and professor at Stanford...
Tags: Robert Frost, Middlebury, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stegner, Eudora Welty
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The Siren's Call: Where's Rimbaud?
Los Angeles TimesIn the worlds of myth and literature, plenty of figures have had their "lost" years. There are, to name a few, Sherlock Holmes (after the plunge from Reichenbach Falls), the wizard Merlin (was he imprisoned in a cave or was he killed?), Shakespeare...Tags: Marguerite Yourcenar, Mystery (genre), Literature, Arthur Rimbaud, Arts and Culture
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'The Coat' by Dana Gioia
Much of Dana Gioia's poetry might be set in the contemporary world, but a host of ancient, mythic references echo in the speakers' voices and the scenes they present to readers. In "Pity The Beautiful: Poems" (Graywolf: 75 pp., $15 paper), a new...
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When Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land' went to school
Pop & HissA new book traces the history of Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land.' In the 1950s, Woody Guthrie's best-known song became part of elementary school education through the efforts of music publisher Howie Richmond.... -
Karmin drops covers, finds success with album 'Hello'
Pop & HissNearly a year ago, pop duo Karmin found itself the music industry’s most exciting upstart after becoming a YouTube sensation -- their spit-polished, homespun covers of ubiquitous hits like Chris Brown’s “Look At Me Now,” LMFAO&#...
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