“If you’re not getting education in school about drama and theatre studies, or if you’re not being taken on school trips, you certainly might not realise that performing is an option, and if you don’t go to those things, you will never realise that there are all these other jobs.”
The New York Times Could Have Helped Diversify Theatre Criticism, And Instead, They Hired Another White Guy
A roundtable discusses the issue. “The line that jumped out to me from Green’s interview was when Green quotes his new executive editor [Dean Baquet] as saying, ‘It’s wrong to try to solve all of an institution’s diversity problems in one hire.’ So the answer is … to not solve any of them with this hire?”
Is Wine-Tasting Jargon A Complete Farce?
No, but it’s hard to describe smells. “While we may know as many as 30,000 words in our native language, we’re not nearly so good at defining the hundreds of thousands of distinct smells our brains process.”
In Defense Of Novelists’ Worldbuilding
Lincoln Michel attacked the concept in an essay last week; here, Emily Temple defends it. But she extends her defense: “No one should feel compelled to create lists of irrelevant details because of some oppressive Internet overlord. Actually, I have good news: literally nothing is required from fiction.”
Teens And Young Adults Are The Group Most Likely To Use Public Libraries, Study Says
Other interesting statistics from Britain and the Republic of Ireland: “The highest levels of library use were in Scotland and Ireland, with the lowest in Northern Ireland.”