Ernest Hemingway

Nigeria: The Sun Also Rises in Edo State

Within the entire gamut or canon of Ernest Hemingway's works - some seven novels, fifty-odd short stories, a play, and several volumes of non-fiction-The Sun Also Rises is something of a curious exception.

Library Diva added the blog post 'Dude Lit'

You know I love chick lit, as sort of a "guilty pleasure." I wondered why it was specific to men, as there are some damn good books on here, but I guess that probably has to do with it being a men's magazine, like "The Ten...

Capt. Tony Tarracino; Saloonkeeper, Mayor, Eccentric of Key West

Anthony Tarracino, known to one and all as Capt. Tony, spent two years as mayor of Key West, Fla., and 60 years as one of the most colorful characters in an island city full of them. During his 92 years, he was a bootlegger,...

'Today' show's Ann Curry struggling up Kilimanjaro (AP)

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer David Bauder, Ap Television Writer – 16 mins ago NEW YORK – Climbing Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro is no weekend hike, and the "Today" show's Ann Curry was feeling it on Saturday. The NBC...

TV's favorite crime clan up to new tricks after "Sopranos"

By Matthew Gilbert The Boston Globe It's great to see Michael Imperioli every week on ABC's "Life on Mars," with his fabulous 1970s Fu Manchu mustache. Drea de Matteo has been crazed-junkie magic on FX's "Sons of Anarchy." And...

Good reads for bad days

BOOKS COLUMNIST Since the only parameters of the written word are the limits of the human imagination, it should come as no surprise that, during trying times, we turn to books seeking all manner of insight: for understanding,...

Presidential Cocktails

Favorite Drinks of U.S. Presidents...and a New One Honoring Obama One must assume that United States presidents serve at least wine at State Dinners. We know more about what presidents who left office quite a long time ago...

The Great War In Words

Nov 13, 2008

THE GREAT WAR IN WORDS by Scott Van Wynsberghe, dnumehob@hotmail.com National Post November 11, 2008 Tuesday Canada Of all wars, the First World War has the darkest reputation. These include Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on...

Avon-Based Company Helps To Distribute Absinthe, Once Banned In U.S.

Vincent van Gogh, Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso all drank absinthe, a supposedly hallucinogenic liquor popularized in Europe in the late 1800s. But until last year, absinthe had been banned for nearly a century in the...

'Lit-pop' seeks patience, understanding

Arabesques, omphalos, catenaries-these words have very little in common other than archaic nature and the average person's inability to define them. But one concrete thing they do share: their recent use in a genre of music...

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