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Writing is hard work, with the goal of making it look easy
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune· 7 days agoAuthor Paul Auster, who died April 30, had advice for other writers, including that every word...
Why Mariners’ Foul Ball Guy illustrates baseball’s big, dumb beauty
Seattle Times· 2 days agoBack in 2008, beloved media figure and occasional philosopher Tim Kurkjian wrote, “Baseball is the...
Willem Dafoe Knows “the A to Z of Cannes Emotions”
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIs there a harder-working actor in the movie business than Willem Dafoe? The 68-year-old, who splits his time between Los Angeles, New York and Rome, has...
Nobel literature winner Alice Munro, revered as short story master, dies at 92
Fox News· 4 days agoAlice Munro, the Canadian literary icon and Nobel laureate, died at the age of 92 at her home in...
A Puzzle Game With Roots in Resnais and Resident Evil
New York Times· 3 days agoIn addition to its gaming influences, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes contains traces of postmodern...
Here's how Apple can compete against OpenAI and Google
Fast Company Magazine· 2 days agoUsers of Apple’s Siri would probably agree the talking assistant hasn’t progressed much since it was...
Rick Beyer
GBH News· 6 days agoRick Beyer has been interested in history for as long as he can remember. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1978, he worked in radio and...
International Booker prize 2024: six expert reviews of the shortlisted books
The Conversation· 5 days agoFrom a longlist of 12, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker prize. In Not a River, the final instalment in Selva Almada’s “trilogy of men”, past and present collide ...
Bibliofiles: Where do our used books actually go?
Albany Times Union· 3 days agoTwenty minutes later, when I brought my coffee to the porch, the two boxes of adult hardcover books were gone. There were still a few children’s books in...