A dirty secret: you can only be a writer if you can afford it | Life and style | The Guardian There is nothing more sustaining to long-term creative work than time and space – and these things cost money…
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Manderley, My Manderley! 5 Literary Classics That Should be Adapted as High School Rom-Coms Immediately | Literary Hub
Okay, so a little background on this quasi-ridiculous exercise: after seeing the latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, I decided it was time to rewatch Clueless, and let me tell you, it (m… Source: 5 Literary Classics That Should be…
Tagged with: Emily Temple, literary adaptations, Literary Hub, Manderley, Rebecca, retellings
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Posted in What I'm Reading
The New York Times Spelling Bee is the best puzzle of all time.
This has become part of my daily routine, but it never would have occurred to me to write about it. I guess this is why Laura Lippman is a more successful writer than I am. In the real world, I…
Little Things That Editors Love | The Review Review
Source: Little Things That Editors Love | The Review Review It seems that editors are people too.
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Moby Dick in under 3 1/2 hours!
An astonishing, delightful, and moving adaptation of Moby Dick kept me fascinated for nearly three and a half hours at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA the other night. The set and props range from the elegant to the…
Tagged with: American Repertory Theater, Chanel daSilva, Dave Malloy, Moby Dick, musicals, Or Mattias, Rachel Chavkin, theater
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Posted in About Me, What I'm Seeing
A blog post that deserves more attention.I’ve only read one of these–The Fact of a Body–and agree with the description of it as “exciting, shattering, exquisitely crafted (and researched).” I hope to get to a few more of these in the next couple of a months.
26 Books From the Last Decade That If You Haven’t Read—You Should | Literary Hub With the end of anything comes reflection. We’ve been doing quite a bit of it here at Literary Hub, as you may have noticed, but…
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And an even more important reason to find alternatives to Amazon.
Amazon Warehouse Reports Show Worker Injuries – The Atlantic Speedy robots. Constant surveillance. Ruthless quotas. A new investigation into why the injury rate for Amazon’s warehouse workers is sky-high. Source: Amazon Warehouse Reports Show Worker Injuries – The Atlantic
Looking for ways to help people find alternatives to Amazon before it completely destroys us.
Give a gift that supports small presses: Skip Amazon and buy direct – Chicago Tribune Biblioracle columnist John Warner calls on readers to buy from small and independent presses directly, rather than via Amazon — which, according to Publishers Weekly,…
What artists can do is bring stories to the table that are unshakably true—the sort of stories that, once you’ve heard them, won’t let you return to what you thought before. Lin-Manuel Miranda
What artists can do is bring stories to the table that are unshakably true—the sort of stories that, once you’ve heard them, won’t let you return to what you thought before. Source: Lin-Manuel Miranda on the Power of Art –…
Tagged with: Broadway, Lin-Manuel Miranda, literary creation, musicals, politics, politics and art, theater, writing
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The story behind the story you hear in your earbuds.
‘Your throat hurts. Your brain hurts’: the secret life of the audiobook star | Books | The Guardian As the business booms, narrators talk tricky accents, lonely shifts and tackling 100 pages a day Source: ‘Your throat hurts. Your brain…
