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The Knock-On Effects Of The Hollywood Strikes
“'The air has come out of the content bubble,’ says Matthew Belloni, the founder of Puck News, which covers the entertainment industry. ‘Crisis is...
Fiction Writers Can Learn A Thing Or Two From Dungeons And Dragons
D&D is "a folk practice for generating stories that are both visionary and ephemeral,” a practice which can help create, or sustain, novelists. -...
How Artists Can Partially Control Their Legacies
Michael Crichton was so powerful that he won a “frozen rights” contract, one that even follows him after death - and may tank a...
Kris Kristofferson, Singer, Songwriter, Actor, And Activist, 88
“Steeped in a neo-Romantic sensibility that owed as much to John Keats as to the Beat Generation and Bob Dylan, Mr. Kristofferson’s work explored...
The Film Industry Is Mildly Obsessed With Wuthering Heights
The current controversy isn’t (to mix countries) the industry’s first rodeo with the classic. - The Observer (UK)
Podcasts Are Dominated By People Chatting – And Always Will Be
Why? Money. “Just to be straight up, a lot of the companies wanted to figure out ways to invest less in programming. Narrative podcasts...
It’s Aubrey Plaza’s Autumn, And We’re Just Living In It
“I’m never going to not be hungry to find parts. … It’s almost a survival thing for me where I need to act or...
What That Warhol Decision Means For Art
Nothing good. “Is a commercial art gallery willing to risk litigation if it dares to offer one of Warhol’s Prince or Marilyn silk-screens ‘for sale?’ What if another commercial gallery across town...
Maggie Smith Grew Older, And Old, In Public
She helped redefine what that meant, too, especially for women. “The face and body may change, but the spirit need not falter, the desire...
What’s With The Fourth Wall Break In Francis Ford Coppola’s New Movie?
It only happens in selected screenings (sorry, small-city America). But “it’s more of a feature than a bug, and I salute the audacity.” -...
Herb Alpert At Fifty
Fifty albums, that is. The nearly 90-year-old trumpeter, planning a 2025 tour, says, "Music is a healing vibration that fills me.” - NPR
For A While, We All Had To Read A Separate Peace, But It Actually...
And then, the novelist explains, there’s Gertrude Stein - and William Trevor. - The Guardian (UK)
National Symphony Orchestra Strike Ends A Short-Lived, Historic Strike
“In an escalation after months of labor talks, the musicians walked off the job on Friday for the first time since 1978.” The strike...
The Erotic Review, Formerly An Online Literary Magazine, Is Now In Print
And, supposedly, quite a bit more feminist. The second issue of the relaunch has “'the explicit aim of moving away from the male gaze’...
Clarice Rivers, Muse Of Many An Artist, Poet, Playwright, And Actor, 88
Rivers is the one who inspired Niki de Saint Phalle’s iconic Nana figures, but in addition, she was "a bohemian saloniste whose lifestyle was...
The Fight To Save The History Of The Internet
“The Internet Archive is one of the most important historical-preservation organizations in the world. The Wayback Machine has assumed a default position as a...
How To Game Your Betting On The Oscars
Just like fantasy football, betting on the Oscars (why not, right?) has some simple rules. For one thing, nail your bargain picks. - Vulture
A Judge Rules That Netflix’s ‘Baby Reindeer’ Didn’t Live Up To Its Billing As...
That ruling allows "the real-life ‘Martha' to pursue her defamation lawsuit.” - Variety
The Tech Ethics Drama Playing Out At WordPress
"Last week, WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg came out with a harsh attack on WP Engine, a major WordPress hosting provider, calling the company a ‘cancer’...
Westminster Abbey Finally Fixes A Typo On The Bronte Sisters’ Plaque
They got their umlaut, "a small but sizable victory for three sisters who could not publish under their own names nearly 200 years ago,...
For The Turner Prize, Forty Is The New Twenty
Sure, it was cooler in the 1990s. And true, “the prize has sometimes struggled to find the balance between challenging assumptions and maintaining a...
When Did Science Fiction Go From Niche To Huge?
There was a time when a fan could know most of the genre, and fantasy too. That time? Long gone. - Reactor Magazine
Of The Big Fall Books, Which Should You Read?
Face it, we only have so much time in our lives. The LitHub flow chart is here for you. - LitHub
One Artist Is Helping Refugees Tell Their Stories – With SIM Cards
Or rather, with glass plates shaped like SIM cards, so important to most refugees’ stories. "This collection has become a rich archive of migration...
The Huntington Botanical Gardens Has A Plant Theft Issue
But it’s not just the Huntington. “There’s a global network where succulents, cacti, orchids, cycads, magnolias and other plants are trafficked on the black...