by Editor | Jun 24, 2023 | Literary News
from The Los Angeles Times Cormac McCarthy shaped a generation of writers like me — even when we didn’t admit it BY JOHN WRAY Cormac McCarthy in Santa Fe, N.M., in 2014. (Beowulf Sheehan) For the entirety of my writing life, Cormac McCarthy has been a mountain. Some...
by Editor | Jun 11, 2023 | Literary News
from Real Clear Politics A Healthy Culture Remains In Dialogue With The Past By Lee Oser I take a “healthy culture” to mean one in which the relationship between books enjoys a certain autonomy. In the minds of readers, books enter conversation with each other in many...
by Editor | Jun 9, 2023 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Deadline Black List Suspends Studio Memberships, Lowers Scribes’ Fees In Support Of WGA Strike By Dominic Patten WGA, The Black List EXCLUSIVE: The skies are cloudy over LA and still thick over NYC today, but for over 1,000 studio and “struck companies”...
by Editor | Jun 7, 2023 | Culture Music Art, Literary News, Los Angeles
from The Los Angeles Times via MSN Editorial: A Hollywood mess: Writers are striking, and actors may too, over the future of the industry Opinion by The Times Editorial Board Screen Actors Guild members take part in a Writers Guild rally May 22 outside Warner Bros....
by Editor | Jun 3, 2023 | Literary News, Weirdness
from The New York Times Don’t Kill ‘Frankenstein’ With Real Frankensteins at Large by Maureen Dowd By the time I took off my mortarboard two weeks ago, my degree in English literature was de trop. Instead of a Master of Arts, I should have gotten a Master of...
by Editor | May 14, 2023 | Literary News
from Real Clear Books Surviving Hyperculture By Emina Melonic Does the term “culture” even mean anything, given humanity’s turn away from particularity and toward a more fluid world of never-ending change? Philosopher Byung-Chul Han, known for his treatise-like...
