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☆ ‘Alexis Smith: The American Way’ Review: Southern California Collage
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Peter Plagens | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

La Jolla , Calif.Alexis Smith is not quite a feminist artist, not quite a conceptualist, not quite an installation artist, not always an ironist, and in the beginning she wasn’t even Alexis Smith. In her art, however, Ms. Smith is at times all of those things. Collage—intimate and mural-sized—is her metier, and her sensibility is more literary than plastic. One could easily get the idea from the 50 works on view in “Alexis Smith: The American Way” at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla that the artist has read most of the Great Books of the Western World and seen almost every movie and stage musical ever made. This is slyly accomplished by—to describe a typical Smith collage—a small pictorial souvenir from popular culture coupled with a few typewritten words from, for example, a Raymond Chandler L.A. detective novel.

☆ Michelle Obama Award will honor student memoir writers
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

A literary honor will now carry the name of a uniquely successful author: the Michelle Obama Award for Memoir. On Wednesday, Penguin Random House announced the retitling of the prize in its decades-old Creative Writing Awards program, which also includes categories named for Amanda Gorman (poetry) and Maya Angelou (spoken word). Each year, the Obama prize will provide a $10,000 college scholarship to a high school senior in public school, based on an autobiographical English-language composition. “I know firsthand how nerve-wracking it can be to share the most intimate stories from your life with the world,” Obama said in a statement released by Penguin Random House. “But after publishing my memoir ‘Becoming,’ I’ve learned that writing your own story can be a powerful tool.

☆ Will Putin Fall Like Khrushchev and Gorbachev?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-08 | by ( Peggy Noonan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University. Before entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. In November, 2016 she was named one of the city's Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.

Ernaux, the first French woman to win the literature prize, said winning the award was "immense". "It's a long path that she makes in her life," Swedish Academy member Anders Olsson told Reuters. "I did not imagine at the time that 22 years later, the right to abortion would be challenged," Ernaux told reporters in Paris. 1/7 French novelist Annie Ernaux talks to the media after being announced as the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, in Cergy-Pontoise, France October 6, 2022. "I always said that I did not want to get the Nobel prize," she told reporters at her French publisher Gallimard's office.

☆ Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-30 | by ( Elizabeth A. Harris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Cormac McCarthy doesn’t do interviews. During his long career, McCarthy, 89, has sat for vanishingly few of them. Scholars of his work say he has long been resistant to publicly analyzing his writing process. Between 1968 and 1980, he gave at least 10 interviews to small local papers in Lexington, Kentucky, and east Tennessee, a region where he lived and had friends. Writing, he said, was a “compulsion” and “not a conscious process.” Asked to give practical advice to starting writers, he said, “Read.”

Persons: Cormac McCarthy doesn’t, McCarthy, Oprah, —, “, “ Read, ” Organizations: The New York Times Locations: Lexington , Kentucky, Tennessee

“It’s fascinating how people seek queerness — and where they seek queerness,” Fuller added. Murnau’s “Faust” and “Nosferatu,” such moments of levity keep viewers engaged while they’re soaking up early Hollywood’s rich queer history. “Whether you’re ideologically queer or sexually queer, you might relate to the monster’s narrative, because you, too, have felt ‘outsidered’ or villainized in some way.” Bryan fuller, 'queer for fear' executive producer“The Dracula costume kit is basically drag. So this, to me, is the experience of being a gay man.”As Alaska’s assessment demonstrates, “Queer for Fear” isn’t interested in just exploring how horror has provided a haven for queer creatives. Because of the Hays Code, LGBTQ creators and those, like Hitchcock, who wanted to include those themes had to do so through subtext, which counterintuitively gave birth to some of the most essential queer horror ever made.

☆ El Quijote—a Kitsch Masterpiece—Is Open Again in Manhattan’s Hotel Chelsea
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Tony Perrottet | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

For the Time Capsule series, we spotlight a cherished restaurant, hotel or landmark that’s changed remarkably little over the years. This week, we visit El Quijote at Hotel Chelsea in New York City. THENIN THE 1930s, exiles from the Spanish Civil War, living in New York, leased the Hotel Chelsea Restaurant, an eatery inside the decades-old apartment-hotel and artists’ cooperative on 23rd Street. They renamed the space after Don Quixote, a nod to the hotel’s literary cachet and created a fantasy shrine to their homeland. The 200-seat El Quijote also had a door next to the Chelsea’s lobby, luring guests like Arthur Miller and Dylan Thomas with hearty portions of Spanish fare served by waiters in scarlet blazers.

☆ Hotel Chelsea’s El Quijote Is Open Again, Kitschy as Ever
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Tony Perrottet | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Tameka Cage Conley, an assistant professor of English and creative writing, always had a love and an appreciation for Tyler Perry. Tameka Cage Conley, an assistant professor teaching of English and creative writing who created the "In the Language of Folk and Kin: the Legacy of Folklore, the Griot and Community in the Artistic Praxis of Tyler Perry" course. Since starting the class, Conley said she’s had engaging discussions with students from diverse backgrounds. Additionally, his Tyler Perry Studios helps to employ over 200 staff members, who are predominantly Black. And so I thought that Tyler Perry is the person who enables me to be a conduit for them to feel safe.”

☆ How to ask for health accommodations at your job, according to 5 workers who have
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Fiona Lowenstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Resources like the Job Accommodation Network may be helpful in navigating this process, and Insider recently asked five people to share advice on how they successfully accessed accommodations at work. Gibson recommends that other disabled people navigating similar needs ask for professional dress-code guidelines in writing, and seek advice from peers at work and in chronic illness communities. When she applied for her current job, Thompson decided to disclose her illness during the interview. At Miller's last job, she wasn't allowed time off for her chronic illness. Because of that, Miller was initially nervous to request accommodations at her new job.

Eight years after the show’s debut, the podcast circuit across all storytelling genres has never been more crowded or competitive. But in today’s oversaturated market, could any one show prove to be as singularly culture-shaping — influential enough to help free an imprisoned person? “I remember a time when I could keep up on new podcast series, but nowadays that seems virtually impossible,” he added. Cindy Ord / Getty Images file“Serial” is not the only podcast to have helped put more focus on a possible miscarriage of justice. In the years since, the stylistic tropes of true-crime podcasting have become all too easy to satirize.

☆ A Nation Tries to Banish Jargon. Leveraging the Pivot Has Yet to Synergize.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Mike Cherney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

During a recent session of New Zealand’s parliament, government lawmaker Sarah Pallett rose to recite “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth, a poem that used literary language to describe going for a walk and seeing daffodils. “Good old Wordsworth,” Ms. Pallett said. “But that is the place for flowery, inaccessible language—in poetry and literature, and not in government legislation.”

☆ Peggy Noonan — Opinion Columnist, Declarations at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Peggy Noonan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Peggy NoonanPeggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University. Before entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. In November, 2016 she was named one of the city's Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.

☆ Organized groups fuel rapid rise in U.S. book-banning, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Daniel Trotta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

There were 2,532 instances of individual book bans affecting 1,648 titles at 5,000 schools with 4 million students, according to the report. The research found 1,000 more book bans than were documented in the group's initial report released in April. PEN America said the rapid rise came as a growing number of groups have targeted books dealing with race or LGBTQ issues. The report identified at least 50 groups active in pushing for book bans, the vast majority of which have formed since 2021. More than 40% of the banned titles address lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer themes or have prominent queer characters.

Police said there was no immediate indication of a motive for the attack that left Rushdie severely injured and on a ventilator after surgery. "I'm not aware that he's ever asked us to provide additional security, and I'm also not aware that he ever brought a security detail with him," she said. Pilar Pintagro/via REUTERSFor Rushdie's event, Chautauqua had requested and received security assistance from the New York State Police and the Chautauqua County sheriff's department, Hill said. Fisher said safety, diversity and differences of opinion had long been part of the fabric of the Chautauqua community. "Not only was he (Rushdie) a victim, but I think that open community is going to be a victim as well," Fisher said.

☆ The Best Books to Take You Through Lisbon, Portugal
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-29 | by ( Djaimilia Pereira De Almeida | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring the globe through books. Lisbon has long been marked by a certain wistfulness. But for those who come with that vision, the city today will surprise with its diversity and color. What should I read before I pack my bags? The literary critic George Steiner wrote that the book “gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce’s Dublin or Kafka’s Prague.”

Persons: Victor Palla, Costa Martins, Fernando Pessoa, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Bernardo Soares, Pessoa, George Steiner, ” Organizations: Cidade Locations: Lisbon, Europe, “ Lisboa, e Alegre, Costa, Sintra, Pessoa’s, Dublin, Kafka’s Prague

☆ Science says parents of successful kids have these 26 things in common
▼ + stars: | 2022-02-07 | by ( Marguerite Ward | Rachel Gillett | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +24 min

Here's what parents of successful kids have in common, according to research. Children with parents who stepped in to provide instructions frequently displayed more difficulty regulating their emotions later, the researchers wrote. "Too much direct engagement can come at a cost to kids' abilities to control their own attention, behavior and emotions. When parents let kids take the lead in their interactions, children practice self-regulation skills and build independence," Obradović wrote in the study. The parents tend to take parental leave.

☆ Japan's best castles to visit at least once
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-20 | by ( David Mcelhenney | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

CNN —During Japan’s Sengoku “Warring States” era (1467-1615), castles were constructed, bolstered and fortified all across the Japanese archipelago, resulting in approximately 5,000 individual keeps. Here are some of Japan’s best castles that you can still visit. Edo CastleEdo Castle, bearing the former name of Tokyo, has one of the longest lineages of all Japan’s castles. Edo Castle was huge in its prime, surrounded by a 15-kilometer outer moat crossed by over 30 gates and bridges. Bicchu Matsuyama CastleThe 13th-century Bicchu Matsuyama Castle, perched above quiet Takahashi City in Okayama prefecture, is thought to be Japan’s original yamajiro (mountain castle).

☆ I'm an ER doctor who runs a travel company on the weekends — and it's landed me a 6-figure book deal, free trips, and more
▼ + stars: | 2021-10-19 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Calvin D. Sun is an attending physician and the leader of The Monsoon Diaries, a travel company. This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Calvin D. Sun, a 34-year-old ER doctor from New York, about his job and travel company. Calvin D. Sun. I'm also the founder and CEO of The Monsoon Diaries, a travel company that leads unstructured, adventure-centric trips around the world. Courtesy of Calvin D. SunI had no idea at the time that it would go any further than just that.

☆ A 'lost generation' of Hollywood workers has been frozen in place by the pandemic, leaving the next wave of creatives and execs in limbo
▼ + stars: | 2021-08-26 | by ( Elaine Low | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The couple enlisted family to help with childcare, and he took the script coordinator gig for the possibility of being upped to staff writer. "I'm not going to script coordinate, I'm not going to be a writers' assistant — at least not for an unlivable wage." Silver linings for some support staffersIn an industry in which abrasive execs are known for hurling invective — and sometimes staplers — at assistants, pandemic separation likely came as a relief for some. "So they bumped me and made me script coordinator, which gave me a lot more job security." 'A lost generation of assistants and entry-level employees'Studios, agencies, and media conglomerates across Hollywood have been hit with pandemic-related layoffs and furloughs.

☆ Scriitorul Dumitru Crudu își bucură cititorii cu un nou roman intitulat „Margareta noastră”. Cartea va fi lansată online
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-02 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Luni, 5 iulie, ora 19.00, va avea loc lansarea online a romanului „Margareta noastră”, de Dumitru Crudu, apărut la Editura Cartier, colecția „Rotonda”. „Dumitru Crudu este unul dintre cel mai valoroşi scriitori contemporani ai noştri: nu doar în poezie, ci şi în proză. Crudu ştie că ciupercile bune cresc în gunoi şi mai ştie să le distingă: cele prea frumoase te otrăvesc, cele mai putin atrăgătoare te hrănesc. În 2003 a primit premiul UNITER și Premiul Fundației Principesa Margareta pentru Cea mai bună piesă de teatru din România (Alegerea lui Alexandru Sutto). În proză a debutat în 2008 cu romanul Măcel în Georgia.

Persons: Margareta, Dumitru Crudu, Bogdan, Alexandru Stănescu, Cosmin Perța, Emilian, Păun, Crudu, El, Vasile, Principesa Margareta, Alexandru Sutto, Troțki, Ion Creangă, Mihai Mihailovici Organizations: Cartier, YouTube, UNITER, Academiei Române Locations: Flutura, Ungheni, Republica Moldova, Brașov, România, Africa, America Centrală, Georgia, american, Chișinău, Partnership Literary, Bratislava

☆ O carte de proză scurtă scrisă de Dumitru Crudu, publicată la Paris. „Salutări lui Troțki” a apărut în tiparul francez cu titlul „Da, eu l-am ucis pe Hitler”
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-27 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

O carte de proză scurtă scrisă de Dumitru Crudu, publicată la Paris. „Salutări lui Troțki” a apărut în tiparul francez cu titlul „Da, eu l-am ucis pe Hitler”O carte de proză scurtă intitulată „Da, eu l-am ucis pe Hitler” a scriitorului Dumitru Crudu a fost tipărită la o editură din Paris, Franța. E vorba despre cartea mea de proză scurtă „Salutări lui Troțki”, publicată în limba română la Editura bucureșteană Univers. Ea a fost tradusă în franceză de Benoit Vitse, care a fost mai mulți ani directorul Institutului Cultural Francez din Iași. Pentru cartea de proză scurtă „Salutări lui Troțki” a primit premiul de proză „Ion Creangă” al Academiei Române.

Persons: Dumitru, Troțki, Hitler, Dumitru Crudu, Benoit VITSE, Benoit, Benoit Vitse, Alexandru Suțțo, Jan Mysjkin, Margareta, Eugen Cioclea, Alexandru, Suțțo, Principesei Margareta, Dimitrie, Jakub Kornhauser, Vasile Barbu, Ion Creangă, Jiři Organizations: bucureșteană, Facebook, Cultural Francez, UNITER, Uniunea Teatrală din, Scriitorilor din România, Filiala, Academiei Române Locations: Paris, Franța, Iași, Africa, America Centrală, România, Chișinău, mafii, Flutura, Ungheni, Uniunea Teatrală din România, Gdansk, Polonia, Rotterdam, Uzdin, Serbia, american, Partnership Literary, Bratislava, Slovacia, Filiala Chișinău, Chişinău

☆ Participă online la lansarea volumului de poeme Prematur de Miruna Vlada
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-01 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

Marți, 4 mai, ora 19.00, va avea loc lansarea online a volumului de poeme Prematur, de Miruna Vlada, apărut la Editura Cartier, colecția Rotonda. Vor participa : Miruna Vlada, Alina Purcaru, Cosmin Ciotloș și Paula Erizanu. „Furia și refuzul sunt două materii esențiale, cu potențial explozibil, pe care Miruna Vlada le activează în acest volum. Prematur (poeme), de Miruna Vlada (Rotonda). Preț: 29 RON/ 119 MDLCartea poate fi cumpărată în toate librăriile bune din România și Republica Moldova.

Persons: Miruna Vlada, Miruna, Alina Purcaru, Cosmin Ciotloș, Paula Erizanu ., Bosnia ., Cosmin, MIRUNA VLADA Organizations: Facebook, Cartier, YouTube, Bosnia . Partaj, Scriitorilor din, Gala Națională, Radio România Cultural, PEN Club România Locations: Bosnia, București, Scriitorilor din București, Graz, Ljubljana, Berlin, Sarajevo, SNSPA București, România, Republica Moldova

☆ An army veteran made $1.8 million in a year self-publishing on Amazon. Here's how he turned his hobby into a career in less than 5 years.
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-26 | by ( Minda Zetlin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

But then a member of the Facebook group LitRPG Books posted a review to the group and tagged Krout. Group members took an interest in the book, and he made $5,000 in book sales in the month after it was published. So those earnings from the book sales got his full attention. By the end of 2017, he'd made more than $82,000 on Amazon book sales alone, plus more income from audio-book sales and non-Amazon revenue streams such as Patreon. AdvertisementTo keep that interaction going over Facebook, Krout joined other Facebook groups beyond the LitRPG group.

Persons: —, Dakota Krout, Krout, Brandon Sanderson, Mark Dawson's, Michael E, Gerber, Dragon Con, he'd, Danielle, I'm, Dakota, John Grisham, They've, superfans, you've Organizations: Service, Army, Business, Facebook, Harvard, Dragon, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mountaindale Press, Dakota, Moutaindale Locations: Kansas

☆ Премию за худшее описание секса в литературе в этом году вручать не будут. Год и так был тяжелым
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-09 | by ( ) ru.diez.md time to read: +1 min

Организаторы ежегодной премии за худшее описание секса в литературе (Bad Sex in Fiction Awards) решили в этот раз не проводить ее, так как люди и так достаточно настрадались в 2020 году, сообщает RTVi со ссылкой на журнал Literary Review. Все из-за того, что в условиях самоизоляции люди будут предаваться «неизведанным сексуальным практикам», уверены организаторы. Премию в 1993 году придумал британский журналист Оберон Во, который тогда работал редактором в Literary Review. За 27 лет существования антинаграду получали, среди прочих, Том Вульф, Джонатан Литтелл и певец Моррисси. В 2019 году ее получили сразу два автора — француз Дидье Декуэн и британец Джон Харви, а в 2018 на премию номинировали Харуки Мураками.

Persons: Оберон Во, Том Вульф, Джонатан Литтелл, Моррисси, Дидье Декуэн, Джон Харви, Харуки Мураками

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