of illegal downloads of his writing, ever since a pirated Russian edition of The Alchemist was posted online in 1999 and, far from damaging sales in the country, sent them soaring to a million copies by 2002 and more than 12m today. His latest move goes a step further, however, joining in with a new programme on The Pirate Bay and exhorting readers to download all his work for free.from Alison Flood: The Guardian: Paulo Coelho calls on readers to pirate books
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Described by the Nobel committee as the "Mozart of poetry" but with "something of the fury of Beethoven"--and by an Italian newspaper as the "Greta Garbo of World Poetry"--[Wislawa] Szymborska died in her sleep from lung cancer, said her personal secretary Michal Rusinek.
Speaking on Wednesday, Poland's president Bronislaw Komorowski called her the country's "guardian spirit". Her poems "were brilliant advice, through which the world became more understandable", he said; they showed the importance of finding value "in the daily bustle".
from Alison Flood: The Guardian: Wislawa Szymborska, 'Mozart of poetry', dies aged 88
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Some of [Joan Houston] Hall's favourite terms from the fifth volume, which runs to over 1,200 pages, include whoopensocker (something extraordinary of its kind, especially a large or strong drink, chiefly used in Wisconsin), willywags (a New England term for an area with tangled underbrush), upscuddle (southern Appalachian term for a noisy quarrel), strubbly (Pennsylvania German term for untidy) and swivet (a term for a state of anxiety from the South).
from Alison Flood: The Guardian: Whoopensocker dictionary of American dialect completed after 50 years
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