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☆ For Ytasha Womack, the Afrofuture Is Now
  + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Katrina Miller | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
And as with many things Afrofuturistic, Ytasha Womack’s fingerprints are all over it. (In 2023, Ms. Womack published “Black Panther: A Cultural Exploration,” Marvel’s reference book examining the films’ influences.) Afrofuturism is a way of thinking about the future, with alternate realities based on perspectives of the African diaspora. People have used imagination to transform their circumstances, to move from one reality to another. And so to claim your imagination — to embrace it — can be a way of elevating your consciousness.
Persons: Womack, “, Octavia Butler, Nyota Uhura, Janelle Monáe, Henrietta, “ Niyah Organizations: Adler, Carnegie Hall’s, National Museum of, Star, New York Times Locations: Chicago
☆ The Best Books About California
  + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Soumya Karlamangla | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Looking for your next absorbing read? Today I’m updating our California Reading List, a project of this newsletter that’s intended to guide anyone looking to learn more about the Golden State through adeptly written prose. Readers have sent in hundreds of wonderful recommendations, and I’ve been sorting through them for weeks. Please keep emailing your suggestions to CAtoday@nytimes.com, and include your full name and the community where you live. (If you have recommendations for the best local spots to read, send those, too.)
Persons: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s, Carey, Octavia Butler’s unsettlingly, Joan Didion, “, Joan Didion’s ‘, Jim Morrison, Charles Manson, ”, Christine Tse Kuecherer Organizations: Reading, Golden State Locations: Golden, “ California, Burbank
☆ Meet This Year's MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Recipients, Including a Hula Master and the Poet Laureate
  + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Associated Press | Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +8 min
A scientist who studies the airborne transmission of diseases, a master hula dancer and cultural preservationist, and the sitting U.S. poet laureate were among the 20 new recipients of the prestigious fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, known as “genius grants,” announced on Wednesday. MacArthur fellows receive a grant of $800,000 over five years to spend however they want. Fellows are nominated and endorsed by their peers and communities through an often yearslong process that the foundation oversees. Many past fellows like Octavia Butler, Paul Farmer and Twyla Tharp are luminaries in their fields and Marlies Carruth, who directs the MacArthur Fellows program, emphasized that they hope fellows will support and inspire each other. "To think that I’ve actually been selected as one is really mind-blowing,” she said, of the MacArthur fellows.
Persons: John D, Catherine T, ”, MacArthur, it’s, Ada Limón, Allamay Barker, “, Limón, ” Limón, Octavia Butler, Paul Farmer, Twyla Tharp, Carruth, Andrea Armstrong, Patrick Makuakāne, Imani Perry, Linsey Marr, Marr, Ian Bassin, Bassin, Tendayi, Rina Foygel Barber, Courtney Bryan, Jason D, María Magdalena Campos, Pons, Raven Chacon, Diana Greene Foster, Lucy Hutyra, Carolyn Lazard, Lester Mackey, Manuel Muñoz, Williams, Amber Wutich Organizations: MacArthur Foundation, University of Montevallo, NASA, Marlies Carruth, MacArthur Fellows, Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law, Black, Virginia Tech, Protect Democracy, MacArthur, Mexican American, Associated, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: Lexington , Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, Caribbean, Americas, Mexican, Central
☆ ChatGPT Secret Training Data: the Top 50 Books AI Bots Are Reading
  + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +13 min
To figure out what GPT-4 has read, they quizzed it on its knowledge of various books, as if it were a high-school English student. One way to answer the question is to look for information that could have come from only one place. Genre — sci-fi, mystery, romance, horror — is, broadly speaking, more interesting, partially because these books have plots where things actually happen. Bamman's GPT-4 list is a Borgesian library of episodic connections, cliffhangers, third-act complications, and characters taking arms against seas of troubles (and whales). See what a bot makes of Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun," maybe, or Sheri Tepper's "Grass."
☆ 6 Great Y.A. Fantasy Novels
  + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Tracy Deonn | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope, edited by Patrice CaldwellI must admit, this recommendation is a bit of a cheat. Instead of a single novel, it is an anthology with 16 different stories from which to choose. Gathered in the spirit of Octavia Butler’s expansive body of work, the collection touches on Black culture, folk tales and fantasies, with stories pulling in lived experiences alongside speculative imaginings. What I love most is the concentrated, multivocal assertion that Black women and gender nonconforming folks are so multifaceted that they are, in fact, infinite. Tracy Deonn is the Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award-winning author of “Legendborn” and its sequel, “Bloodmarked.”
☆ The Visions of Octavia Butler
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Lynell George | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +27 min
As a science fiction writer, Butler forged a new path and envisioned bold possibilities. Mural with a portrait of Octavia Butler and her name, composed of dots of various densities in 3-D space. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to be awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant. “‘Kindred’ was a story of ordinary people trapped in fantastic circumstances,” Butler wrote in a 1988 notebook. Her point of view was one not traditionally found in science fiction and, simply by writing, she demanded a larger world.
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