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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...
Gen Z Can’t Read Cursive
Thus, an iconic outdoor brand had to change its 60-year-old logo. - Fast Company
Living The Archaeology Dream
A team of Egyptian and German archaeologists has found multiple hidden chambers in a pyramid - and they say the work "has completely changed...
How Paperback Publishing Helped The US Win WWII
"The paperbacks were intended to help soldiers pass the time. But they were also meant to remind them what they were fighting for, and...
New Orleans Drummer Russell Batiste Has Died At 57
Batiste was a "pyrotechnic" drummer, "the "whose furious style and genre-busting approach provided the rhythmic pulse for bands like the Meters and Vida Blue...
When Storefront Theatres Run Out Of Storefronts
It's not pretty. Just ask Chicago. - American Theatre
Yes, The Internet Truly Is Worse
Worse than it used to be, worse than it should be, thanks to Google and Amazon. - The Atlantic
The ‘Pioneer Woman’ Does Not Own All Of The Land Stolen In Killers Of...
A viral tweet was wrong, or wrong-ish (surprise). The truth is far more intense. - Slate
How A Tiny, Newish Bay Area Publisher Snagged The Nobel Prizewinner’s Books
Of course, Jon Fosse hadn't won when Transit Books got its start. - Los Angeles Times
Balanchine Biography On British Prize Short List
One judge on the 784-page Mr. B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century, by Jennifer Homans: "I’m hopeless on the dancefloor, ... but this book takes...
The Ken Dream Ballet Sequence Almost Didn’t Happen
Barbie director Greta Gerwig: "There was a big meeting that was like, ‘Do you need this?' And I was like, ‘Everything in me needs...
Literary Folks In New York Want Books To Get So Much Sexier
Literary books, that is (guessing most of them don't know much about the open door, spicy romance subgenre). - Vulture
The Banned Books Bus Tour Kicks Off
The U.S.'s fervor for banning books (based, studies say, on 11 people's complaints) is being met with busloads of the censored cultural capital. ...
Films Are So Much More Than Their Plots
A movie's story is not always - nor even often - the thing. - The New York Times
