“After 50 years of publishing, Munsch told me, his ability to come up with new stories seems to have vanished. ... Plots used to just appear to him, all the time and almost fully formed, as if they were limitless. But now they don’t.” - The New York Times
Hopwood DePree "grew up listening to stories of the family’s ancestral home in England, but believed them to be fairytales, until he began researching his family tree online, and discovered his Manchester roots.” - The Guardian (UK)
"In her typical unfiltered, brainy and self-deprecating fashion, Stewart made the audience laugh as she admitted that she actually struggles to watch entire movies.” But the ones she does watch are pretty solid. - Variety
“In the last decade, after academics at the University of Southampton in England digitized the sheet music collection of Austen and her family, more and more people are turning to the music for new perspectives on her life and work.” - The New York Times
The Vulture post will load if you click this headline, but here is the Los Angeles Times live chat, The Hollywood Reporter’s live stream of the winners, and The New York Times’s live take on the Emmys. - Vulture
“The truth is that the vulgar poptimist ideal of letting people like what they like is also the preferred state of affairs for capitalism — cultural value collapses into market value, so that the amount of money something makes is the only necessary judgment of its worth.” - Jude Doyle
“Paris, the centre of French gastronomy, has never been in more need of a great restaurant critic. Today, the Parisian food media scene has become a never-ending circle of new restaurants hyped for a couple of weeks before the next ones come in.” - Vittles
"I guess what I’m saying is, you could watch the Emmys, or you could watch some of the other things that were on TV in the last year (and change).” - Reactor
“Despite music in general having long since assimilated the daring qualities of Gymnopédie No. 1, the original piece still catches our ears — in its subtle way — whenever it comes on.” - Open Culture
Many of the TikToks “deliberately portray as a stereotypical bad boyfriend or spouse with wandering eyes. Some are more explicit, like one in which Hamilton appears to be taking a sexy selfie when interrupted by Eliza.” - The New York Times
“'In light of role as the chief conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, we are unable to provide sufficient clarity about his attitude to the genocidal regime in Tel Aviv,' organizers said in a statement.” - CBC
Paramount "sharply denounced a proposed boycott of Israeli film institutions by a group that calls itself Film Workers for Palestine and is supported by dozens of Hollywood luminaries.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
