by Editor | Sep 29, 2023 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Village Voice Remembering Ed Fancher, a Village Voice Founder He kept the paper alive through the early, lean years. by R.C. BAKER Village Voice Archive The front page of the January 4, 1956, issue of the Village Voice looked much like the others...
by Editor | Sep 25, 2023 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Literary News
from TIME Screenwriters Reached a Deal to End the Strike. Here’s What Happens Next BY LAURA ZORNOSA Union leadership representing screenwriters in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has declared an end to a monthslong strike after voting to lift it on Tuesday...
by Editor | Aug 2, 2023 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from reason Backpage Founder, Alt-Weekly Entrepreneur, and Free Speech Warrior James Larkin Has Died Larkin, 74, took his own life on Monday, just a little over a week before he was slated to stand trial for his role in running the web-classifieds platform Backpage....
by Editor | Jul 12, 2023 | Literary News
from Tablet In Memory of Milan Kundera On the passing of the great Czech writer and dissident BY MAXIM D. SHRAYER Milan Kundera in Prague, 1973 / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES In the spring of 1993, I was working at the Slavonic Library in Prague with the remains of the rich...
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...
