For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time. Scott isn’t coming to poetry as a true outsider. - Slate
The Los Angeles Philharmonic led the charge into their first Coachella performance on Saturday with the "Ride of the Valkyries," helmed by Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel, in his latest move to reach out to new audiences. - Reuters
“It’s so long since we’ve seen the original version of Star Wars, our collective memories of it as a gritty, charming space western may be nothing more than a mass hallucination.” - The Guardian (UK)
Kaliane Bradley: “There was the absolute dread that it would go to people I know and respect and they’d talk to one another and say: ‘God, did you get that book? It’s shit, isn’t it? What do we tell her?’” - The Guardian (UK)
“The camera zooms in toward a black-and-white photograph hanging in the hallway of the Overlook Hotel. It's dated July 4, 1921. Dead centre stands Jack Torrance — played by Jack Nicholson — smiling in a crowd of partygoers. But the photo wasn't taken on set with extras.” - CBC
“We released our first episode of Buffering the Vampire Slayer on September 14, 2016. We couldn’t have imagined that only a few weeks later, we’d have thousands of new listeners.” - LitHub
“Small models are not used as general-purpose tools like their larger cousins. But they can excel on specific, more narrowly defined tasks, such as summarizing conversations answering patient questions as a health care chatbot. … They can also run on a laptop or cell phone.” - Wired
For some of us, it might be even better. But truly: "Researchers have identified a wellbeing boost known as ‘the cathedral effect’ which occurs when we have a lot of space above our heads,” and that includes, well, cathedrals. - The Guardian (UK)
“The Trump administration, caring little for democracy and focused on hardness, is immune to the idea that literature, a supposedly feminizing kind of art, could ever be useful.” - LitHub
“After years of performing worldwide in French, Quebec comedian Rachid Badouri is touring a new solo show in English, and says there’s a subtle difference in what his new audiences want from him.” - CBC
The writer was really sick of being frustrated and isolated in the hearing world, basically - and he also "wanted to put his own twist on films like Get Carter and The Outfit (which feature 'intimidating men in cool clothes' on a mission of vengeance).” - BBC
“Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, gained renown as a young writer with slangy, blistering visions of the corruption, moral compromises and cruelty festering in Peru.” - The New York Times
