In ReviewOpinion Yes, Latinx writers are angry about American Dirt – and we will not be silent The Guardian - Daniel A OlivasWe are Latinx writers – with the support of our allies – who have been fighting too long to stop now Why are Latinx writers so angry about the novel American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins? If you have to the
In ReviewWriting The author tour for the controversial book 'American Dirt' has been canceled over safety concerns CNN - By Leah Asmelash, CNN(CNN) — After much backlash against her book "American Dirt," Jeanine Cummins will not be going on the scheduled author tour to promote her novel. The announcement was made by publisher Flatiron Books,
In Review The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People, Presented in an Interactive Infographic openculture.com - by Jonathan Crow Click the image above to access the interactive infographic. The daily life of great authors, artists and philosophers has long been the subject of …
In Review We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Die The Paris Review - Jessi Jezewska StevensOn the fortieth anniversary of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping: an unbeliever’s rereading of Christian conceptions of the afterlife. I took one English class in college. The theme was contemporary fiction
In Review Find The Perfect Word For Your Writing With These Tools Forbes - TJ McCueWriting is a tough game sometimes. Writers are constantly searching for the perfect word to convey an idea, to share the right emotion, or explain a difficult concept, among other situations. The right
In Review Is the political novel dead? The Guardian - Dorian LynskeyWhere is the Nineteen Eighty-Four of our times? As film and TV writers engage with our divided political moment, where is the campaigning literary novel? When Anna Burns, author of last year’s Booker account
In Review The purpose of life is to be a nobody Ladders - Zat Rana We all experience the world like we are at the center of reality.We think and we feel in relation to how our senses absorb information and how this …
In Review Six Local Artists Grapple with the Specter of Detroit’s Manufacturing Heritage hyperallergic.com - Amy Luo DETROIT — Located in Midtown Detroit, today a cultural hub praised by some as an exemplar of urban renewal, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit …
In Review Inside The Fragmented Minds of People With Dissociative Identity Disorder VICE - Shayla LoveThis story appears in VICE Magazine's Truth and Lies Issue. Click HERE to subscribe. The lights dimmed at a movie theater about 100 miles northeast of London, in a city of more than 100,000 people. I traveled
In Review Who invented the dishwasher, windshield wiper, caller ID? Women created these 50 inventions. USA TODAY Money - Josie GreenOn May 5, 1809, Mary Kies became the first woman to receive a patent in the United States. (It was for her technique of weaving straw with silk.) Of course, women inventors existed before this time, but
In Review North Carolina County Declares Itself America’s First ‘Gun Sanctuary’ The Daily Beast - Barbie Latza Nadeau A small county in North Carolina has passed and ratified one of the country’s first gun sanctuary resolutions. Cherokee County has ruled that it will …
In Review Book Written by Detainee via WhatsApp Gets a Top Prize The New York Times - By ISABELLA KWAI and LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKASYDNEY, Australia — A stateless Kurdish-Iranian asylum-seeker detained by the Australian government won the country’s highest-paying literary prize on Thursday. But he could not attend the festivities
In Review Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones - Brain Pickings - Pocket getpocket.com “It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning,” Lincoln Steffens wrote in …
In Review Are These Bad Habits Creeping Into Your Writing? lithub.com - Benjamin Dreyer Many writers rely more heavily on pronouns than I’d suggest is useful. For me this sort of thing comes under the heading Remember that Writing Is Not …
In Review Oliver Dean Spencer (~s) naccarato.org Heidi Thomas, creator of Call The Midwife, says: “I have writers’ block every day of my life, but somebody once said to me, ‘first drafts don’t need …
In Review The Brutal Math of Gender Inequality in Hollywood The Atlantic - Derek ThompsonOf the top 250 films of 2017, 88 percent had no female directors, 83 percent had no female writers, and 96 percent had no female cinematographers. The Golden Globe Awards on Sunday provided a useful snapshot
In Review Novel-Writing App WriteWayPro Is Now Free lifehacker.com.au - Logan Booker If you're looking for an all-in-one program to handle your novel-writing needs, then WriteWayPro is worth a look. The creator recently made the …
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In Review Luc Boltanski on the "mysteries & conspiracies" of genre fiction e-flux.com In the n+1 website, Evan Kindley reviews a newly translated book by the influential French sociologist Luc Boltanski, entitled Mysteries & …
In ReviewConsciousness The Opposite of A Black Hole Medium - Mahmoud Awad Black holes are the strangest, and consequently, the most intriguing manifestations of outer space. The idea that something can, in a way, persist as …
In Review An Oral History of 'Trainspotting' 20 Years Later VICE - Daniel Dylan WrayI was far too young to watch Trainspotting when it first came out. Mind you, that didn't stop it from penetrating the bubble of my pre-pubescent world. It was the film my friends and I would talk about
In ReviewIcon version of the Flipboard logo Books By Trans and Non-Binary Authors wordpress.com - xanwest It’s World Book Day, so I thought I’d share some recommendations of books by trans and non-binary authors. Please feel free to share your own …
In Review The Aesthetic Allure of Books Without Pages hyperallergic.com - Claire Voon Books exist as receptacles of information, but for many years people have adopted their format and appearance to create other objects or containers …
In Review Carluccio & Co. The Paris Review - Luc Sante“Until the mideighties,” Luc Sante says, “I was pretty unaware that what was going on all around me was specific and special, but I was fed by its vibration . . . New York City kind of ended for me at
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In Review A Post-Apocalyptic Graphic Novel by a “Disappeared” Argentinian Writer hyperallergic.com - Dominic Umile Buenos Aires-born comics writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld was nearing his 59th birthday when heavily militarized Argentine death squads kidnapped him …
In Review ‘Silence of the Lambs’ at 25: The Complete Buffalo Bill Story Rolling Stone - Kory Grow You never know what’s going to happen with an audition,” actor Ted Levine remembers of the first time he portrayed Jame Gumb, The Silence of the Lambs …
