Yearly Archives: 2023
Can Book Resumes Prevent Censorship?
This New Jersey librarian thinks that's one tool. (Though the ban-fans usually don't care at all about awards.) - The Mary Sue
Houston Grand Opera Gives Dancers Center Stage
"It’s a big story, and dancers are an integral part of the storytelling force. ... They’re not just coming in for their number or...
Historical Fiction Readers Need To Be Able To See – And Smell – The...
For instance: "If you describe a character running a discarded leather glove scented with lavender under her nose, the reader can feel the cool-then-warm...
Suzanne Somers, Star Of Three’s Company And More, Has Died At 76
Somers demanded equal pay - and was fired for it. - The New York Times
Another Woman Accuses Bill Cosby Of Rape
Her accusation of his drugging and raping her on the set of The Cosby Show adds to the more than 60 other claims. -...
Decades Of Misguided Literacy Instruction Are Finally Ending
But the U.S. remains mired in distrust of public schools, not to mention reading culture. - Slate
No More Skeletons For The American Museum Of Natural History
The museum has 12,000 "human remains," many of enslaved people and Indigenous people, and it plans to take them all off display as urgent...
Duchamp’s Greatest Fakery Was That Urinal
And not because he created it - likely that "R. Mutt" signature is down to German Dada artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. - The Observer...
Horror Films Might Be Good For Mental Health
Your brain on Spooky Szn = happier and healthier. - Salon
The American Ballet Theater Coach Still Working At 90
Irina Kolpakova, who has worked with ABT for decades, "is a consummate coach, her skill evident in her rapid-fire suggestions delivered in an emphatic...
What Does It Look Like, A Good Place To Live?
Dreaming of the town of the future, Britain can look to the past - and to Europe. - The Observer (UK)
The National Book Awards Get A Host Practically Synonymous With Reading
Drew Barrymore got the boot after trying to throw her show's writers under the bus - and her replacement is the Reading Rainbow man...
Iranian Filmmaker And His Screenwriter Wife Killed In Their Home
Dariush Mehrjui, 83, "one of the pioneers of Iranian cinema’s new wave movement, and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, 54, a screenwriter and costume designer, were...
Piper Laurie, Who Starred In The Hustler And On Broadway, Has Died At 91
Laurie rebelled against the studio system, volunteered for the McGovern candidacy - and came back to perform in Carrie and Children of a Lesser...
Roald Dahl Was At Once Unreliable And Precious
Thus, Wes Anderson as his adapter seems fated. - The Atlantic
Author Teju Cole Says He’s Avant Garde
But he doesn't want that to mean "unreadable." - The Guardian (UK)
Hollywood’s Unions Demand Producers Return To Bargaining With The Actors
It's not just the actors who want to be back at work. - NPR
The Blues Collector
Smithsonian Folkways is gearing up for another epic release - this of Robert "Mack" McCormick's "unruly collection" that he called "The Monster." - Washington...
Taylor Swift’s And Beyonce’s Concert Movies Are Changing Cinemas And Production
"The artists cut out the middleman by producing their own films and working directly with theatres to release them. It's a savvy move that...
Frankfurt Book Fair Cancels An Award For Book By Palestinian Author
"The novel, by Adania Shibli, is titled “Minor Detail” in English and tells the true story of the 1949 rape and murder of a Palestinian Bedouin girl...
Yayoi Kusama Apologizes For Past Anti-Black Comments
"My lifelong intention has been to lift up humanity through my art. I apologize for the pain I have caused." - Hyperallergic
Living At The End Of Time
"This is in fact the end of time, and you have to be a tech bro or a fascist, or both, to think that...
Nobel Prize-Winning Poet Louise Gluck Has Died At 80
Glück also won the Pulitzer in 1993. She "wrote about childhood, family, loneliness and death, drawing inspiration from Shakespeare, William Blake, ancient mythology and...
New Technologies Usually Arrive In Clusters. So What’s Coming With AI?
The potential — and hype — surrounding machine learning, artificial intelligence, and especially generative AI is everywhere. Some are predicting a full suite of...
Disney Is 100-Years-Old: Its Business Smarts Have Been Its Superpower
The business acumen of those behind the scenes at Disney have been central to the peaks and troughs of the company’s enduring presence in...
