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First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

High flying Will.i.am fights global warming with a day torch

WHEN not nodding and smirking, The Voice’ s talen investigator, a kind of musical Ironside , Will.i.am is part of the celebrity flight club, the elite group of jet-setting eco-activists that number chopping Gisele Bündchen and her eco-Ark , Harrison ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Anorak ]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, Trudie Styler, Jeanette Winterson

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 21 2012 - 1 Documents

Across the literary pages: Bumper issues

It’s a fact of life: death and destruction make for compulsive reading. The latest tome in the apocalypse genre is Callum Roberts’s, Ocean of Life: How our seas and changing. The book describes how man has ravaged and defiled the oceans, and explains ... [ Published May 21 2012 by Spectator ]

Entities: Callum Roberts, Jeanette Winterson, Fossil Fuel, Rachel Cooke

First Reported May 18 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

University of Manchester

Jeanette Winterson: teaching creative writing

Jeanette Winterson believes that learning how to write, even reasonably well, gives fluency to the rest of lifeHi, I'm currently doing a creative writing essay and I'd like to ask for advice on how you would describe a bomb …That is my favourite Google ... [ Published May 18 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Jeanette Winterson, Manchester, University of Manchester, Teaching

First Reported May 18 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

Madonna (Artist)

Bookmarks

Wallis Simpson and her Peter Pan; HarperCollins splashes out on sauce; National Biography winner; on The Nose; and now it's Professor Winterson. By Jason Steger.Sex and Mrs SimpsonTHE perennial interest in the story of Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII comes ... [ Published May 18 2012 by WA Today ]

Entities: Wallis Simpson, Martin Thomas, Sex, Jeanette Winterson, Madonna (Artist)

First Reported May 17 2012 - Updated May 17 2012 - 1 Documents

Germaine Greer

Memories triggering memoir 'is no fiction'

Memory is fluid, says Jeanette Winterson. Photo: Sahlan HayesJeanette Winterson defies literary labels, writes Kylie Northover.JEANETTE Winterson's acclaimed debut 1985 novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, drew heavily from her own childhood with religious ... [ Published May 17 2012 by Canberra Times ]

Entities: Jeanette Winterson, Memory, Germaine Greer, Sahlan Hayes, First Tuesday

First Reported May 13 2012 - Updated May 13 2012 - 1 Documents

Heather Brooke

Sydney Writers' Festival 2012

Where: Walsh Bay , Hickson Rd SydneyHow much: $Free - $$35Taking inspiration from events in the past 12 months such as the (mainly UK-based) media scandals and the digital frenzy that surrounded the Kony12 campaign, the 2012 Sydney Writers' Festival will ... [ Published May 13 2012 by Concrete Playground ]

Entities: Sydney (Australia), Anita Heiss, Heather Brooke, Stella Rimington, Kathy Lette

First Reported May 12 2012 - Updated May 12 2012 - 2 Documents

Jeanette Winterson

Author Jeanette Winterson is to become a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.

She will begin a two-year stint at the university's Centre for New Writing in October.The writer of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit will teach a post graduate MA workshop, MA seminar and lecture to undergraduates.She succeeds Colm Toibin, who completes ... [ Published May 12 2012 by Manchester Wired ]

Entities: Jeanette Winterson, University of Manchester, Manchester

First Reported May 10 2012 - Updated May 10 2012 - 1 Documents

Norwich has been named as England's first City of Literature by the United Nation's organisation, UNESCO.

The Writers' Centre Norwich (WCN) said Norwich was where the first book in English by a woman and the first provincial newspaper were published.Author Ian McEwan, who backed the bid by WCN, was on the UK's first MA Creative Writing at the University of ... [ Published May 10 2012 by Manchester Wired ]

Entities: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cul..., Ian McEwan, Lorna Sage, Rose Tremain, Julian of Norwich

First Reported May 08 2012 - Updated May 08 2012 - 1 Documents

Josh Kyle’s Possibilities

London's Jazzwise magazine described Australian Josh Kyle (pictured) as "standing out in a town full of singers". Josh released his debut album Possibilities as a part of the London International Jazz Festival in 2011.Having played Ronnie Scotts, Pizza ... [ Published May 08 2012 by Gay News Network ]

Entities: Noel Coward, Rai Thistlethwayte, Jeanette Winterson, Jeffrey Eugenides

First Reported May 06 2012 - Updated May 06 2012 - 1 Documents

Interactive ebook transforming reading

As Zhou Enlai would say, it’s always too early to predict the outcome of a revolution - but wherever it’s headed, the one that’s happening in the publishing world looks to have reached a point of no return.This week, the Publishers Association Statistics ... [ Published May 06 2012 by Qatar Peninsula ]

Entities: E-book, Invention, JK Rowling

First Reported Apr 30 2012 - Updated Apr 30 2012 - 1 Documents

Benjamin Law

is the author of The Family Law. He is a senior contributor to frankie magazine and his work has also appeared in The Monthly, The Big Issue, The Courier-Mail, Growing Up Asian in Australia and The Best Australian Essays. Ben lives in Brisbane and his ... [ Published Apr 30 2012 by Arts Hub ]

Entities: Benjamin Law, Helen Garner, David Sedaris

First Reported Apr 30 2012 - Updated Apr 30 2012 - 1 Documents

What to expect at the Sydney Writers' Festival

Festival Director Chip Rolley Photo: Peter RaeThe Sydney Writers' Festival is upon us again, featuring a huge variety of talented and inspirational authors ready to share their knowledge and skill with the world.Writers, rejoice! The time has come for ... [ Published Apr 30 2012 by Arts Hub ]

Entities: Sydney (Australia), Hisham Matar, Dava Sobel, Sebastian Barry

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Summer Books 2012: The Complete List [ Published May 25 2012 by WNYC ]
Tracey Emin should have had more fun at the sea... [ Published May 25 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
High flying Will.i.am fights global warming wit... [ Published May 24 2012 by Anorak ]
In the Chloroformed Sanctuary [ Published May 24 2012 by New York Review of Books ]
Across the literary pages: Bumper issues [ Published May 21 2012 by Spectator ]
Jeanette Winterson: teaching creative writing [ Published May 18 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Bookmarks [ Published May 18 2012 by WA Today ]
Five Puffin titles on IBW Book Awards shortlists [ Published May 18 2012 by Bookseller ]
Memories triggering memoir 'is no fiction' [ Published May 17 2012 by Canberra Times ]
Sydney Writers' Festival 2012 [ Published May 13 2012 by Concrete Playground ]
Author Jeanette Winterson is to become a profes... [ Published May 12 2012 by Manchester Wired ]
Jeanette Winterson to take up writing professor... [ Published May 12 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
‘In One Person,’ by John Irving [ Published May 12 2012 by New York Times ]
Bookmarks [ Published May 11 2012 by Melbourne Age ]
Norwich has been named as England's first City ... [ Published May 10 2012 by Manchester Wired ]
Josh Kyle’s Possibilities [ Published May 08 2012 by Gay News Network ]
Interactive ebook transforming reading [ Published May 06 2012 by Qatar Peninsula ]
Adrian Searle encounters … Luc Tuymans's Allo! [ Published May 04 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
What to expect at the Sydney Writers' Festival [ Published Apr 30 2012 by Arts Hub ]
Benjamin Law [ Published Apr 30 2012 by Arts Hub ]
Sherlock and This is England up for Sky Arts award [ Published Apr 26 2012 by FemaleFirst.co.uk ]
Franzen: Literature, Death, Birdwatching [ Published Apr 24 2012 by Kirkus Reviews ]
Total Recall with Marilu Henner [ Published Apr 24 2012 by Kirkus Reviews ]
Tuesday's Scoop: 30 Hours of Jokes, Clark Myste... [ Published Apr 24 2012 by West Hollywood Patch ]
New books at Norway Memorial Library [ Published Apr 21 2012 by Advertiser Democrat ]
Patterned trousers: worth a smize? [ Published Apr 21 2012 by Telegraph ]
Coming to life on the page [ Published Apr 21 2012 by Melbourne Age ]
Authors mark book day by giving away extra chap... [ Published Apr 21 2012 by Yorkshire Post ]
Michael Stewart joins top writers on Book Night [ Published Apr 20 2012 by Telegraph and Argus ]
The Visit chosen for anthology [ Published Apr 20 2012 by Dundalk Democrat ]

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What Happened to the Coming-Out Memoir? [ Published Apr 02 2012 by Vulture ] What has the publishing industry put in the water? This spring heralds the arrival of not one but two memoirs by prominent lesbian writers: Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? In this week’s ...
Book Review Podcast: Jeanette Winterson on the ... [ Published Mar 23 2012 by ArtsBeat ] Jeanette Winterson discusses her new memoir about her troubled, larger-than-life mother, "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" ...
'Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Is a Me... [ Published Mar 19 2012 by PopMatters ] She was told that she should have been a boy named 'Paul', so rejection and disappointment were a fact of life from an early age for Jeanette Winterson. ...
Books: Book Review: Jeanette Winterson: Why Be ... [ Published Mar 07 2012 by A.V. Club ] Adopted at six weeks old, author Jeanette Winterson grew up lonely, quiet, and afraid, a classic book escapist till the day she could leave home. Her memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? , returns to the territory she addressed in her semi-autobiographical, ...
Rarely off our screens this winter, Sue Perkins... [ Published Jan 10 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ] DIVA talks to her about sexism in comedy, Lip Service, being drunk in front of camera and her use of double entendres on The Great British Bake Off. Commenting on sexism in comedy: People still ask the question in interviews, ‘Do you think that ...