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...
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....
