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☆ New York and Hollywood Lore by Amor Towles (Martini Optional)
  + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Hamilton Cain | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
TABLE FOR TWO: Fictions, by Amor TowlesFew literary stylists not named Ann Patchett attain best-sellerdom, but Amor Towles makes the cut. His three lauded novels — “Rules of Civility,” “A Gentleman in Moscow” and “The Lincoln Highway” — hung around on lists for months, if not years. The book spans the 20th century, bringing characters from a range of backgrounds into tableaus of deceit and desire. Towles devotes the first section to New York, its wealthy and famous shuffling against strivers and innocents in La Guardia terminals, musty bookstores or immigrant communities. In “The Line,” a naïve Communist builds a lucrative business that steers him to Manhattan, where con games lurk on every corner.
Persons: Amor Towles, Ann Patchett, ”, Towles, Timothy Touchett, Pennybrook, he’s Organizations: Carnegie, Motorola, Nokia Locations: Moscow ”, Lincoln, New York, Los Angeles, La Guardia, Communist, Manhattan
☆ Gabriel García Márquez’s Last Book Is an Unsatisfying Goodbye
  + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Michael Greenberg | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
UNTIL AUGUST, by Gabriel García Márquez. Billed as a “rediscovered” novel, “Until August” is likely to be the last published book of fiction by the Colombian master and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez. Reading it may provoke unhealthy levels of frustration in those familiar with García Márquez’s most indelible creations. Readers’ inevitable disappointment with “Until August” may be directed partly at García Márquez’s two sons and literary executors, who permitted its publication even though their father had made his wishes clear. And to his sons he said: “Memory is at once my source material and my tool.
Persons: Gabriel García Márquez, Anne McLean, “, ”, Solitude Locations: Colombian, Italy, “
☆ At the Berlin Film Festival, Reconsidering the Power of Doubt
  + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Jessica Kiang | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Doubt is fussy and forgetful, whereas certainty strides around, all action and achievement. As a film critic, swift, declarative certainty is a quality I’ve learned to aspire to. But this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, which runs through Sunday, has been buffeted outside and in by political turbulence and organizational shake-ups. And so perhaps because the event itself is experiencing such uncertain times, the films made me reconsider — actually, doubt — my dismissive stance on doubt. Doubt is etched on Cillian Murphy’s hollow, striking features in Tim Mielants’s grave and moving “Small Things Like These,” which opened the festival last week.
Persons: —, Tim Mielants’s, Claire Keegan —, Magdalene laundries, Mary, Emily Watson, Murphy’s Locations: New Ross, Ireland
☆ ‘Shawshank’ in China, as You’ve Never Seen It Before
  + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Vivian Wang | Claire Fu | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
When a stage production of “The Shawshank Redemption” opened recently in China, it was cast entirely with Western actors speaking fluent Mandarin Chinese. But that may have been the least surprising part of the show. Chinese audiences’ interest in Hollywood films is fading, with moviegoers turning to homegrown productions. China’s authoritarian government has stoked nationalism and cast Western influence as a political pollutant. Censorship of the arts has tightened.
Persons: ”, Stephen King, — Locations: China
☆ Inside the rise of Sarah J. Maas, the best-selling author who's taking the 'romantasy' genre to the next level
  + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +13 min
Sarah J. Maas' latest book, "House of Flame and Shadow," was published on Tuesday. Publishers are prioritizing romantasy, with Entangled creating Red Tower, an imprint focused on sci-fi and fantasy romance books in 2022. But an organic community of Maas readers formed on social media recently, making her even more widely loved. The pair, who are good friends thanks to BookTok, post videos breaking down the smallest details of Maas' works. Studios founder Molly Werts, 26, runs her shop full-time and met her roommate because they connected over one of Maas' books.
Persons: Sarah J, Maas, —, Samantha Grindell, Harry Potter, it's, Feyre, she's, fae Bryce Quinlan, Stephanie Meyer's, Cassandra Clare's, Tor, Rebecca Yarros, Bramble, Jennifer L, BookTok, TikTok, superfans, Rosie Dent, Dent, Lili, BookTokers, Jaclyn Wooten, Wooten, Molly Werts, romantasy, they've Organizations: Service, Bloomsbury, Marvel, New York Times, Reuters, Publishers, Wings, Studios, Jupiter's, Publisher's, Writers of America Locations: Brooklyn , New York, New York, Connecticut, Florida, Maas, Bloomsbury, Crescent, BookTok
☆ Carol Kane on Working With Jason Schwartzman and Her Dream of Being in a Martin Scorsese Film
  + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Associated Press | Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +3 min
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Carol Kane really wanted to work with Jason Schwartzman, but the opportunity would require her to step a little outside of her comfort zone. Her character, Carla, is a retired music teacher who wants to get her bat mitzvah. Schwartzman’s Ben is her former student, and currently a cantor, who agrees to help (reluctantly at first). “The idea sounded pretty fascinating,” Kane, 71, said in a recent phone interview. And working with Schwartzman on the complex, loving relationship between Carla and Ben was as good as she hoped.
Persons: — Carol Kane, Jason Schwartzman, Nathan Silver, Carla, Schwartzman’s Ben, C, Mason Wells didn’t, ” Kane, ”, Kane, Schwartzman, Ben, “ He’s, he’s, Marty Scorsese, “ That’s, Emma Stone, Oscar, won’t Organizations: Sundance Film, CBS, sundance Locations: CITY , Utah, France, Park City , Utah, “
☆ Roxanna Asgarian's 'We Were Once a Family' and Amanda Peters' 'The Berry Pickers' Win Library Medals
  + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Associated Press | Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +4 min
She is one of this year's winners of an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, presented by the American Library Association. The fiction medal was awarded to Amanda Peters for her novel “The Berry Pickers,” a multi-generational story centered around the disappearance of a young Mi’kmaq girl from a blueberry field in Maine. “Amanda Peters’ stunning prose and evocative narrative enraptured us with the grief and longing of her characters. “I was 16 and sitting in the library and it changed the trajectory of my reading career," said Peters, who read the book at home. The Carnegie Medals were established in 2012 with the help of a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Persons: Roxanna Asgarian, ”, Andrew Carnegie, Roald Dahl's, Asgarian, Hart, Amanda Peters, “ Amanda Peters, Christina Wong’s, Daniel Innes ’, Jake Bittle’s “, Darrin Bell’s “, Peters, John Steinbeck's, “, ” Peters, ” Asgarian, Jennifer Egan, James McBride, Bryan Stevenson Organizations: —, Las Vegas, American Library Association, Carnegie, Dalhousie University, Acadia University, New York Public Library, History Research, Town, Carnegie Corporation of New Locations: Las, Dallas, America, Maine, San Diego, United States, Falmouth , Nova Scotia, Wolfville , Nova Scotia, New York City, New York, Carnegie Corporation of New York
☆ A guide to the most important characters in Sarah J. Maas' 'Crescent City' series
  + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +15 min
The "Crescent City" series has a massive cast of characters that can be hard to keep track of. On January 30, Sarah J. Maas will release "House of Flame and Shadow," the third book in her best-selling "Crescent City" series. "Crescent City" has a huge cast of characters, most of which are magical creatures referred to as Vanir. To help prepare you for the third book, Business Insider created a guide to some of the most important characters in the "Crescent City" universe. AdvertisementThe rest of this article contains major spoilers for the "Crescent City" and "A Court of Thorns and Roses" series.
Persons: Sarah J, Maas, —, Bryce Quinlan, Hunt Athalar, Ruhn Danaan, Bryce, Ember Quinlan, Randall Silago, Einar Danaan, Einar, Prince, Ruhn, Danika Fendyr, Orion, Hunt, Bryce's, Danika, Sofie Renast, Baxian Argos, Baxian, Asteri, Connor Holstrom, Bryce ., Archangel Micah, Connor, Luna's Horn, Micah, Declan Emmet, Tristan Flynn, Declan, Flynn, Fury, Juniper, Holstrom, Tharion, Sofie Renast's, Emile, Sabine Fendyr, Ithan, Sabine, Lidia Cervos, Hypaxia Enador, Enador, Celestina, Crescent, Lidia, Sandriel, Pollux Antonius, It's, Hel, Aidas, they're, Rigelus, Bryce doesn't, Feyre Archeron, Nesta, Amren, Cassian, Rhysand, Teller, Gwydion Organizations: Service, Business, 33rd Legion, Alpha, Bloomsbury, of, Sirius, Court, Wings Locations: Lunathion, Crescent, Bloomsbury, Midgard, Crescent City, Valbara, Hel, Ruhn, Nesta
☆ Stream These 10 Movies Before They Leave Netflix in November
  + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Jason Bailey | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
☆ A Historical Novel That Is Also a Mash-Up of the Centuries
  + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Lizzy Harding | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
But for Thirlwell, Celine is more like the chair in the corner of a bedroom where, by some quirk of gravity, everything always ends up. Just because Celine mistrusts language, seeking instead “something which language was pointing to but which escaped it forever”? To read a Thirlwell novel is to be forced to stroke one’s chin. Like Celine, Heti’s protagonist, Mira, communes with what seem to be voices of the universe and falls in love with other women. Then Celine was green too.” Let that sink in.
Persons: Celine, Thirlwell, Celine mistrusts, ”, Sheila Heti’s, Mira, ” Thirlwell Locations: Celine
☆ Opinion: Why I risk death to run with the bulls
  + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( Stuart Ross | Opinion Bill Hillmann | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
CNN —On July 11, 2014, I was running with a bull in Pamplona, Spain. The story is a fascinating adventure into the Fiesta de San Fermín, also known as The Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. By the time I finished reading that novel, I decided I would go to Spain and run with the bulls and I would become a writer. So I began to run with Lecuona, David Rodríguez, Aitor Arístegui and others leading bulls up the streets. Participants run ahead of bulls during the "encierro" (bull-run) of the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, on July 14, 2023.
Persons: Bill Hillmann, CNN —, Victoriano del, swooped, gored, Michael Hemingway, Michael, Ernest Hemingway, “, ”, Jake Barnes, Hemingway, Toro Bravo, I’ve, Graeme Galloway, Joe Distler, Juan Pedro Lecuona, David Rodríguez, Aitor Arístegui, it’s, John Hemingway, Miguel Riopa, goring, Antonio Subies, Castilla y, Paula Andión Zabalza, Paula, Fernando Zabalza, Fernando Organizations: East, West University, NPR, The Toronto Star, Washington Post, The Daily Mail, CNN, Fiesta, Bulls, Spanish, las Fiestas, Castilla, Castilla y León Locations: Chicago, Pamplona, Spain, Victoriano del Río, Fermín, AFP, San, Valencia, San Fermín, Madrid, Navarra, Tafalla
☆ 3 self-published authors who sell their books through Amazon's Kindle share how they built up an email list and social media to sell their books
  + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Authors need good social media and email lists to sell a lot of books directly to their readers. Insider spoke with authors who published on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing and KDP Select. An author made $1.3 million in a year from self-publishing books on KDPMark Dawson called his email list his most "powerful asset." Courtesy of Britt AndrewsBritt Andrews published her first novel on KDP Select, which made it available to subscribers of Kindle Unlimited, after she was furloughed because of COVID-19. Read more: I made $363,000 last year self-publishing books on Amazon.
Persons: Mark Dawson, Mark Dawson Mark Dawson, Dawson, Meera Kothand, Kothand, Britt Andrews, Britt Andrews Britt Andrews, Andrews, influencers Organizations: Publishing, Kindle, Amazon KDP, Facebook
☆ After a Great Flood, a Struggle Between Faith and Reason
  + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Dwight Garner | More About Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Translated by Leri Price. The Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa’s novels have cruel titles, of the sort Jean Genet might have composed for William S. Burroughs, or Verlaine for Rimbaud. Khalifa, who was born near Aleppo in 1964, has published six novels in Arabic. He can also resemble Chaucer, for whom smell was indicative of a person’s moral state. This sense, so intimately linked to memory and desire, matters in fiction as it does in life.
Persons: Khaled Khalifa, Leri Price, Khaled Khalifa’s, Jean Genet, William S, Burroughs, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Khalifa, ”, antic, Philip Roth, Dickens, Chaucer Locations: Syrian, Aleppo, Syria
☆ Jennifer Croft Knows a Good Translation When She Reads One
  + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Shackelford, and “Goodnight Moon” — the board book edition — by Margaret Wise Brown. What’s the last great book you read? I just finished reading “Chain-Gang All-Stars,” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, which is a masterpiece. Which translators working today do you admire most? And which writers in other realms — novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, poets?
Persons: Christine Lai, Pablo Maurette, Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel, Sara Baume’s, Paul Gauguin’s, George T.M, Shackelford, “, Margaret Wise Brown, Nana Kwame Adjei, Anton Hur, Jeremy Tiang, Frank Wynne Organizations: NoViolet Locations: NoViolet Bulawayo, “
☆ Called the French ‘Huck Finn,’ This Book Has Pleasures All Its Own
  + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Marco Roth | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The novel is existential or, more appropriately, elemental: Earth, air, fire and water — these are Bosco’s instruments along with the passions, fears and fantasies each of them evokes. The result is a strange kind of gothic romance about the human attempt to reach a real peace with wildness and wilderness without pacifying them, subduing them, paving them over. It is a more modest undertaking than “Malicroix,” yet full of small beauties, like a multifaceted gem. A grove of poplars is described like this: “Bunched tightly together against the daylight, their leaves formed a dark hedge. Some grew up almost from the level of the water in the shallower pools.
Persons: Bosco, I’ve, James Galvin's, “, frustratingly, Huck Finn, ”, he’s Locations: American
☆ In MMOs Like Old School RuneScape Scammers Use ChatGPT to Fuel Bots
  + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Evan Malmgren | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
But the bots using ChatGPT began to rapidly improve, and SirPugger realized the automated players would soon become almost indistinguishable from human players. In some cases, these AI-powered bots seemed to commiserate with real players, even complaining about the overabundance of bots. At the same time, bot scripts could eventually enhance rather than detract from the social aspects of online games. Online shooters like "PUBG" and "Fortnite" already populate their multiplayer lobbies with AI bots, but the social emphasis of MMOs means that they are uniquely well positioned to reap the prospective benefits of chatbot integration. Worlds would appear to become more populous, and though "real" players might still be cheated out of leaderboard slots, they wouldn't necessarily know it.
Persons: Jagex, SirPugger, Joe, Bots, countermoves, OpenAI, botters, Ted Chiang, Mark Zuckerberg's, Kylan Gibbs, Gibbs, Evan Malmgren Organizations: Studios, Inworld, AI Locations: British, botters, MMOs
☆ The world's top H.P. Lovecraft expert weighs in on a monstrous viral meme in the A.I. world
  + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Mike Calia | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Lovecraft's novella "At the Mountains of Madness" — aren't quite perfect, according to the world's leading Lovecraft scholar, S.T. "While I'm sure Lovecraft would be grateful (and amused) by the application of his creation to AI, the parallels are not very exact," Joshi wrote. Read more: How to talk about AI like an insiderFirst of all, it's "shoggoth," not "Shoggoth," Joshi said. "It is a species name, not a proper name," Joshi wrote in an email to CNBC. For instance, a recent fake Toronto Blue Jays ad, created by a TSN producer who used text-to-video AI tech, is packed with horrifying images such as people feasting on each other's hot dog tentacles.
Persons: H.P, S.T, Joshi, Lovecraft, it's Joshi, He's, Kevin Roose, Roose, Harlan Ellison's Organizations: Lovecraft, Providence, The New York Times, CNBC, Times, Workers, Toronto Blue Jays, TSN Locations: A.I, Antarctica
☆ Three Books That Make Tess Gunty Angry
  + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +4 min
I can’t believe I get to share a time period with all of these people. In this poem, the speaker is thunderstruck by a newfound “plague of gratitude.” The speaker says: “Not long ago I was hard to even/hug ... The poem plunged me into that first miraculous flash of hope you enjoy after a long storm of bad brain chemistry. They are facilitated by an absence of legal restrictions and the primeval excuse that if We don’t do it first, They will. My family is always shocked by how many books on neuroscience and quantum physics I’ve amassed.
Persons: Claudia Rankine, Anne Carson, Maggie Nelson, Yuri Herrera, Zadie Smith, Diane Williams, Valeria Luiselli, Olga Tokarczuk, Rachel Kushner, Elena Ferrante, Ben Lerner, Carmen Maria Machado, Joy Williams, Hanif Abdurraqib, Nuar Alsadir, Robin Coste Lewis, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Sharon Olds, Morgan Parker, Tommy Pico, Terrance Hayes, Ada Limón, Tracy K, Smith, Annie Baker, Amy Herzog, Paula Vogel, Svetlana Alexievich, Rachel Aviv, Ed Yong, Matthew Desmond, Alexandra Kleeman, Susan Choi, Chris Ware, Tommy Orange, Javier Zamora, Jenny Offill, Annie Ernaux, Anne Enright, Lydia Davis, Raven Leilani, Mark Z, Jennifer Egan, George Saunders, Wolf, Kaveh Akbar, ” Akbar alchemizes, ”, I’m, Patrick Radden Keefe, Sackler, —, Brian Christian, I’ve, Iain McGilchrist, Alex Locations: Ocean, America, “, postindustrial Indiana
☆ Opinion | My Fantasy Bookshelf
  + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
After filing last week’s newsletter comparing “Succession” to a work of “Game of Thrones”-style fantasy, I recorded a podcast episode with Razib Khan in which we talked about our shared affection for actual fantasy novels, our experience as early George R.R. It was a wide-ranging conversation, but one that stayed mostly with the big names of the genre — Martin, J.R.R. To be clear, this isn’t a list of my all-time favorites or even a list of “fantasy novels that should be adapted for TV instead of making more seasons of ‘The Rings of Power.’” It’s just me turning a glance at my bookshelf into a newsletter. You can think of this list of novels, maybe, as various inspirations for that imagined perfection. Hobb’s hero, Fitz, is one of the most successful examples of character-building and compelling interiority in recent fantasy.
☆ 10 things in tech: Musk believes remote work is morally wrong, BookTok a kingmaker, and AI press releases
  + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Michael Cogley | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
It will be interesting to see what enlarged role social media stats will also have on the publishing industry, given TikTok has assumed the position of a literary kingmaker. But before I pitch you my novella that's sure to be a social media hit, let's jump into today's tech news. He also revealed that he planned to rehire some of the thousands of staff he laid off after he assumed control of the social media giant. A new PR tech company is using AI to write press releases. Apple unveiled a new set of accessibility features this week, including "Personal Voice," which aims to replicate a user's voice with AI after 15 minutes of training.
☆ Why Should Charles III Be King?
  + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Tanya Gold | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +7 min
King Charles(Francis Xavier,Professor X) III Prof. King Charles III, a telepath and the leader of the X-Men, is powerfully gifted, like the real Charles III (a noted gardener and watercolorist). King Charlize (Theron) III Charlize III is a gifted actor, which all good monarchs need to be, and an extraordinarily beautiful woman. King Charles III, theMadame Tussauds waxwork Wax Charles III lives in Madame Tussauds on Baker Street, and more people met him in 2022 — 2.5 million — than the real king will meet during his whole reign. King Charlie (Sheen) III Another actor, who has the advantage of already being from a famous dynasty: his father played Jed Bartlet, the philosopher king from “The West Wing.” King Charlie (Sheen) III would be handsome but not as handsome as King Charlize (Theron). King Charles (Dickens) III could not function in a country with failing public services and a system that taxes earnings, not wealth.
☆ Peering Into the Future of Novels, With Trained Machines Ready
  + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Elizabeth A. Harris | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Gus forced himself to take a bite, but the flavor was rancid, a sickly sweet imitation of cheese. Aidan Marchine, however, is an unusual author — at least for now — because Aidan Marchine is a set of computer systems. The journalist and author Stephen Marche wrote “Death of an Author” using three artificial intelligence programs. Or three artificial intelligence programs wrote it with extensive plotting and prompting from Stephen Marche. “I am the creator of this work, 100 percent,” Marche said, “but, on the other hand, I didn’t create the words.”
☆ Escape to a Grand Hotel… for $10 (Tip Included)
  + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Tara Isabella Burton | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
I’VE ALWAYS had a weakness for elegant, old-world hotels. Maybe I’ve read too much Stefan Zweig, the Austrian novelist who set his work (like his 1927 novella, “Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman”) in such lavish places. Or perhaps I’ve viewed “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” Wes Anderson’s 2014 confectionery pastiche, too many times. ); or a suite named after an obscure writer who stayed for one night in 1883. Rarely, though, have I slumbered in one of these old-world gems.
☆ ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon
  + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Greg Bensinger | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +8 min
In the edition, Sammy the Squirrel, crudely rendered also using AI, learns from his forest friends about saving money after happening upon a gold coin. While that may not sound like much, it is enough to inspire him to compose other books using the software. There were over 200 e-books in Amazon’s Kindle store as of mid-February listing ChatGPT as an author or co-author, including "How to Write and Create Content Using ChatGPT," "The Power of Homework" and poetry collection "Echoes of the Universe." There is even a new sub-genre on Amazon: Books about using ChatGPT, written entirely by ChatGPT. In the video, White says anyone with the wherewithal and time could create 300 such books a year, all using AI.
☆ What’s in Our Queue? ‘Gudetama’ and More
  + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Alexandra Alter | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
I loved Helen DeWitt’s novel “The Last Samurai” and never want to miss one of her books. I couldn’t resist this slender and beautifully packaged novella, which can be devoured in a sitting and has an unforgettable narrator. Though it’s just around 60 pages, it has a twist or two, and stays with you.
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