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Debut Authors Take Home Women’s Prize For Fiction, Nonfiction

The fiction award is well-known (as is, in this case, the award winner), but the Women’s Prize added the nonfiction award in 2023 to help redress an imbalance in nonfiction award winners in the UK. - The Guardian (UK)

Let’s Talk About How Sondheim Made Order Out Of Chaos In Sunday In The Park With George

Or more specifically, in one song: “Sunday.” - The New York Times

In Houston, Two Young White Men Scraped And Punctured A Painting By A Black Man

“The museum initially removed the painting to have it repaired but later decided to display it — with the damage — on the last day of the exhibition.” - The New York Times

Oh, The Drama: Someone Tries To Trademark A Bookstagram Term, And It Does Not End Well

Can ‘Hot Girls Read’ be trademarked? One creator thought so. “She is using the trademarking this common phrase to retroactively target small businesses who very likely had the idea before her, or at the very least had it around the same time as her.” - Slate

Why Is Tupac’s Likeness Appearing Again – In A Video Game?

“The announcement was the latest in a series of creative decisions that have earned the studio a growing amount of skepticism.” - CBC

How David Hockney Taught His Beloved, Adopted Los Angeles To See Itself

“‘He loved the sunlight, the weather, the boys,’ said Richard Benefield, a veteran museum executive who served as the first director of the David Hockney Foundation.” - The New York Times

What America’s Treasure To Trash To Treasure Pipelines Say About All Of Us

After WWII, “single-family homes spread across the nation like fireweed. In a distinctively American architectural feature, many of them were joined to a small dungeon dedicated to the tidy storage of automobiles—and other items.” - The Atlantic

Canada Has Stepped Out Of The Shadows Of Hollywood North

Said one presenter at the Canadian screen awards, "A country that doesn’t tell its own stories in its own way is just a market for someone else, and we’re better than that.” - The New York Times

There Are Now Plans For A New Black Box Theatre In Seattle

The plan - after extensive renovations of the now unprepossessing building - is for ExoArts to “offer six six-week blocks a year at subsidized sliding-scale rates that can be rented by outside theater companies to perform full-scale production” and to have its own programming as well. - Seattle Times

They Just Had To Take That Man’s Name Off The Kennedy Center From Behind A Curtain

After blowing the deadline and begging for more time - and being denied - workers took Donald J. Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center on Friday night. But “a spokeswoman for the center, said the institution was … evaluating ‘legal options.’” - The New York Times

The Guardian’s Pretty Solid Summer Reading List

That is, if you like taking the advice of Zadie Smith, Mark Haddon, Anne Enright, Sarah Waters, Bernadine Evaristo and more. - The Guardian (UK)

What Virgil Thought About Bees

“(The Latin poet) recognized that bees had what we might call social being — co-dependent, organized, enterprising — and he praised them for having all the virtues of a Roman citizen: industrious, hardworking, loyal, and (willing) to die to defend the colony.” - Literary Hub

Kennedy Center As De-Trumpification Warning

Trump’s threat to walk away from the Kennedy Center suggests an additional danger: He could lose interest and doze off, as if at yet another Cabinet meeting or NBA Finals game, leaving parts of the government to fend for themselves. - The Atlantic

A Musical About The 1984 Miners-And-Gays Coalition (Wait, What?)

Pride: the Musical, now at the National Theatre in London, is the stage adaptation of a 2014 film about the London-based activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners and the members of a Welsh colliery community whom they supported financially during the 1984-1985 miners’ strike. - The Guardian

Biggest Hits On Spotify Are From The 70s And 80s

On May 14, almost exactly 43 years later, Michael Jackson's Billie Jean was No. 1 again, prancing to the top of Spotify’s global chart following the release of the biopic “Michael.” - The Wall Street Journal

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