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Lisa Foad won’t be getting her Relit award ring until later in this week when she flies to Ottawa for the ceremony. Her excitement has not abated since she found out she received the award for her debut collection of short fiction, The Night Is a Mouth. “I yelled on the phone,” she says when she got the call. Lisa Foad has room for her ReLit ring. I’m talking with Foad in the bar at the Westin Hotel and it’s been a busy few days for her, having just arrived back home to Toronto from the Vancouver International Writer’s Festival. In a half hour she’s due for a round table at IFOA. Foad is my kind of author. A serious new contender whose writing is full-blooded enough to make the bourgeois blush, yet is also... [read full story]
In early 2009, David Koller was a young lawyer with a Philadelphia law firm. He had two clients he could call his own, a few thousand dollars saved in the bank and a lot of experienced people he trusted offering discouraging...
Story Created: Nov 24, 2009 at 9:35 PM CST Story Updated: Nov 24, 2009 at 9:41 PM CST LINN COUNTY - The unnoficial results are in, and Kirsten Running-Marquardt wins the seat in a landslide. More than 75% of voters in House...
THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME CONCERT, A FOUR-HOUR EVENT FEATURING MUSIC’S BIGGEST STARS, DEBUTS NOV. 29, EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO Performers include Jeff Beck Band, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Aretha Franklin,...
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Top museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Louvre launch their own dedicated iPhone applications. The London museum has recently launched the Tipu’s iTiger app, an interactive guide...
