Emily Johnson's "expansive work often brings its viewer-participants into outdoor public spaces, drawing our attention to the land beneath and around us — to what has been here before and what could be in the future." - The New York Times
According to Abbott Elementary's Brittani Nichols, writers getting to produce episodes means something important, and it keeps the writers' room bonded, on track, and earning real credit for their work. - Slate
Callil "championed female writers and transformed the canon of English literature," including by bringing many women authors back into print. - The Guardian (UK)
And her play, new to Broadway, is "about 'the precarity of life' — the way that one bad break, financial or physical or emotional, can tumble a person into desperation — and the need we all have to be taken care of." - The New York Times
"The point isn’t that there’s something wrong with working from an office. It’s that there’s something right about working from home." Now, what does this mean for the arts? - The New York Times
Even though she's famous for memoir and novels of country life, she says, "I do not miss the deference which was shown to people in authority. That, I feel, led to the creation of megalomaniacs." - Irish Times
Proposed legislation in Canada, "the Online News Act, compels online platforms like Facebook and Google to share revenue with the publishers they aggregate their news from." Meta will not have it. - The Verge
"Watching Tár, you’re likely to be spectacularly divided about what happens to Lydia. We experience it all through her eyes, and it’s the nature of that to feel pity and terror." But should we? - Variety
Artist Pao Houa Her draws parallels "between the heyday of Hmong opium cultivation in Laos in the decades before the Vietnam War and the current Hmong cultivation of cannabis in the United States, particularly in California." - The New York Times
Zar Amir Ebrahimi was a young actor when a leaked sex tape forced her to flee her country. Now, she says, "This Islamic Republic has to end. Women today know their rights. ... There is no other way." - The New York Times
His agent: "He had three serious wounds in his neck. One hand is incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut. And he has about 15 more wounds in his chest and torso. So, it was a brutal attack." - The Guardian (UK)
Memoirist Mary Karr (The Liars Club, Cherry, Lit) says, "Memory is a pinball in a machine—it messily ricochets around between image, idea, fragments of scenes, stories you’ve heard. Then the machine goes tilt and snaps off." - LitHub
