Telly’s 10-inch wide “smart display” runs “while you watch shows, movies, YouTube videos, and play video games. Even when you turn off the TV with a tap of the remote’s power button, the secondary screen remains illuminated.” - The Verge (Archive Today)
Tstisi Dangarembga, novelist and filmmaker: “We are never completely free; we have moments of freedom. Freedom is a desire. Achieving it requires us to move towards it.” - El País English
“Barnett wielded enormous influence in the market for political memoirs and helped to usher in the era of megadeals. He got eye-popping advances for his clients, in the seven- and eight-figure range.” - The New York Times
Hurray for research! “The archivist led her into a reading room and handed her a cream-coloured box. She lifted the lid, hands shaking, and opened the volume. There, professionally typed, were revised versions of the NYPL stories, with hundreds of stylistic changes.” - The Guardian (UK)
How about this one, from 1929? “In Out of the Void, Stone didn’t imagine the future so much as she imagined a different present. Imagine, she asked her readers, … that the oppressed could rise up and achieve justice for themselves and the generations to come after them.” - Reactor
Valerie Allman: "I grew up dancing. That was my first love and I never expected that there would be such a parallel between dance and discus.” - The New York Times
“The beauty, the moral authority, of high Christian tradition is just very persuasive. The beauty of it all seems right. It seems as if it opens the universe in a way that very few kinds of thinking actually do.” - The New York Times
“We have been living in a moment of constant crisis and existential dread for years now. Many use this as the reason horror is having a moment, but I say it is more the icing on the horror cake.” - People
Those who love books in this rough time should probably do a little more to keep the literary community going. For instance: “Give yourself permission to enjoy things. And remember that being earnest is best.” - LitHub
Perhaps unsurprisingly, “The National Park Service denied a second permit to reinstall the controversial statue, which featured a plaque reading, ‘We celebrate the long-lasting bond between President Donald J. Trump and his ‘closest friend,’ Jeffrey Epstein.’” - Los Angeles Times (AOL)
“I try to write at least two hours every day, if not longer. Writing is my favorite part of the day. It’s my creativity moment. I treat it as sacred.” Then the actor and playwright bikes to work at the Public. - The New York Times
VistaVision is a selling point of the new Leonardo DiCaprio One Battle After Another, or at least that’s the public relations push. “A TV set couldn’t give you the experience this format could deliver in a theater. In 2025, neither can streaming.” - The New York Times
The musician who rescued the piano says, "The irony is we want in their original state. … But to keep them in their original state, you have to do things in a modern way to preserve them.” - The New York Times
