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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara Movie ReviewMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:01AMWatch ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA to fall in love with zindagi (life) all over again!...

An agonizing fall and every single detail of itMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:12AMThe narrator of True Things About Me is on a downward spiral, and she's moving fast. Her harrowing story begins at her dreary job, where she sits at a window processing some kind of claims. She tells us each small thing she does with such hard-eyed accuracy that when she has sex with a man in the parking garage a few minutes after meeting him (and just a few pages into the book) it's shocking ...

Poetry Northwest journal revived at Everett Community CollegeSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:06PMPoetry journal founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carolyn Kizer is back in the Northwest, where it belongs.

Join Julia’s jauntSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:53PMI CAN’T believe it’s been two years since Anthony Browne was appointed Britain’s Children’s Laureate. A month ago, Julia Donaldson took over from Browne and she will spend the next two years championing libraries, and promoting music and drama.

Cultural revolution: How artists have been inspired by the Arab SpringSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:51AMWe are all unchained Arabs now, it seems, or are eager to hug them or bottle their courage, or viscerally experience the emancipatory winds blowing across many of their sandy lands. Now it's cool to be an Egyptian, totally awesome to be a Tunisian, Syrian, Libyan, Bahraini or Yemeni dissident and to be an artist from these places is, well, very heaven. Longstanding stereotypes of Arabs as ...

Brian McGackin: Bro-etry: What Happens When A Bro Writes PoetryFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 8:28AMWhy are so many guys afraid of poetry? Is it because they don't think they'll get it? Is it too mushy and emotional and girly for their manliness to handle? Screw that.

Poetry ChronicleThursday, July 14, 2011 @ 11:30PMPoetry by Michael Dickman, Ross Gay, C. Dale Young and Chris Martin.

Slam poetry strikes with compassionThursday, July 14, 2011 @ 2:14PMGREAT BARRINGTON -- Since the 1990s, slam poet Taylor Mali has carved out a niche by crafting witty, thought-provoking and funny messages in a way that leaves audiences wanting more -- even if they don't know what to expect before he takes the stage.

Dean Rader: It's Still Summer! Books by Bay Area Authors You'll Be Glad You ReadThursday, July 14, 2011 @ 12:42PMSan Franciscans are lucky to live in The City of Writing. I've prepared a little menu for you to carry along next time you visit your favorite independent bookstore. Let them serve you up a heaping helping of bookish Bay Area goodness.