Monday profile: Lowndes County man looking to put literature on airwaves
Chris Howard stands in front of his antenna in Lowndes County. Howard wants to create a Golden Triangle radio station called “Classic Book Radio” that only broadcasts prerecorded readings of classic literature. Photo by: Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff.
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Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84
His mother, Rose, was a nurse who introduced her children to literature and music. As a boy, Jim was a reader, a musician — he played the trombone and, later, the piano — and a ballplayer. He signed a contract with the Chicago Cubs before his 17th …
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Chinese literature going global; translation first (2)
Humes has also noted that many foreign translators are no longer sinologists in college, but rather, promising young people working in China as reporters teachers, etc. Many of them only have travel visas, which cannot guarantee their residence or …
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