11/23/2008
Western literature expert picked for Humanities post (Missoulian)
The Board of Humanities Montana announced that Ken Egan, a specialist in the literature of the West, will take the position of executive director on Feb. 1, 2009.
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11/22/2008
Third City of Literature is written up (Edinburgh Evening News)
IOWA City has linked up with Edinburgh and Melbourne after being named the world's third City of Literature.
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11/21/2008
Iowa City named world's third City of Literature (The Daily Iowan)
No other city in the United States has what Iowa City has. It has been named the world's third City of Literature by the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, joining Edinburgh, Scotland, and Melbourne, Australia.
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11/22/2008
Howard Jacobson: Read more literature and less history. That's the lesson of Hitler's deformity (Independent)
So Hitler actually did have only one ball. I call that a pity. Not for Hitler, or even for Mrs Hitler, who might have thought that half a Hitler was better than none. But a pity for history. A pity for psychoanalysis. A pity for satire. And a pity for popular verse.
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11/23/2008
New way to fuse artists' work (Miami Herald)
Literature, art and graphic design are both maverick and dependent upon each other in Nothing Moments, an exhibit at the Art & Culture Center of Hollywood.
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11/23/2008
Teens spellbound by Holocaust survivor (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
When literature teacher Karen Yost began teaching Elie Wiesel's memoir "Night" last year, her students asked many questions about the Holocaust that she couldn't answer. "Questions came up: Why?
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11/19/2008
Sister Souljah rejects any labels on her literature (USA Today)
Sister Souljah, activist, novelist, former hip-hop performer and cultural lightning rod, has been hailed as a star of "urban lit." But she calls her novels, including the new Midnight: A Gangster Love Story, "literature. Period."
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11/20/2008
UNESCO names I.C. City of Literature (The Gazette)
IOWA CITY and#8212; The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated Iowa City the world's third City of Literature, making the community part of the Creative Cities Network."This is at once a celebration of the literary riches and resources of Iowa City and a spur to action," said University of Iowa International Writing Program Director Christopher ...
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11/23/2008
The shy writer (The Star)
MANY classic works of literature were first published without their author’s names or under false names.
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11/20/2008
UNESCO deems IC world’s third City of Literature (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated Iowa City, Iowa, the world’s third City of Literature, making the community part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
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