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☆ Why it’s OK to crave the taste of home when you travel
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-10 | by ( Maggie Hiufu Wong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Enter, the American Bar. But, like the patrons of the American Bar before us, seeking out home comforts when abroad is still something we all do. The study was based on interviews with 330 people in the US, all questioned on how likely they’d be to try local foods when traveling. We learn to associate food with comfort – hence the term ‘comfort food,’” Brewer says. The American Bar at the Savoy has been a London hotspot since the late 1800s.

Persons: Richard D’Oyly Carte, Ernest Hemingway, Marilyn Monroe, “, ”, Andrea Di Chiara, couldn’t, Coke, Maggie Wong, Angel Gonzalez, ” Gonzalez, Judson Brewer, Brewer, Richard A, Brooks, ’ ” Brewer, Bridget Jones, Jungfraujoch, Kathrin Naegeli, Gonzalez, JACK HARDY, tellingly, Gerald Quadros, there’s, ” Brewer, we’re, ‘ I’d, ’ Organizations: CNN, American Bar, American, Future Market, Yorkshire teabags, California State University, Monterey Bay, Brown University, Getty, Jungfrau Railways, Noodle, Savoy, Langham Hotel, Random Locations: United States, Savoy, London, Hong Kong, Paris, Monterey, AFP, Europe, Swiss, Zurich, Denbighshire, Italy

☆ Packing your bags for Paris? Here’s what to expect from a visit this summer
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

More restaurants and stores will be open in August to host the millions of visitors attending the Summer Olympic Games. Pawel Libera | The Image Bank | Getty ImagesBut this summer, many businesses and restaurants plan to take full advantage of the 11 million visitors expected to visit the city for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Paris has ramped up cycling paths and bicycle parking spaces ahead of the Summer Olympic Games, as part of an effort to make the city a cyclist-friendly metropolis. Instead ask for a "carafe d'eau," and you'll get chilled tap water, which is free and perfectly drinkable in Paris. Escape from the cityConsider a quick break from Paris and her crowds, but one that doesn't require going very far.

Persons: Kiran Ridley, planche, Elena Noviello, Ernest Hemingway, Michel, Charles de Gaulle, Louis XIV, Bois, Christophe Lehenaff Organizations: Pawel, Bank, Getty, Paralympic, Associated Press, Gare de, Saint Locations: Paris, —, Spain, Etoile, Saint, Germain, Laye, Bois de

☆ I grew up in Florida and used to want to live anywhere else. Now that I'm older, I wouldn't dream of leaving
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Ashley Archambault | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Now that I'm an adult, and I've traveled all around the state and country, I've grown to appreciate where I'm from. I spent the first 24 years of my life in Miami, and now live in a smaller Central Florida town off of the Space Coast. Although I wouldn't live in Miami again, I'll happily keep a quaint old Florida town near the beach as my forever home. Fortunately, I'd say it's really only brutally hot in Florida for three months out of the year, from July through September. Living near a beach is important to meI'm embarrassed to admit that I used to take the beach for granted.

Persons: —, I've, I'm, Alexander Spatari, Augustine, Ernest Hemingway, you've Organizations: Service, Business, Getty, Sunshine States, Disney Locations: Miami, Florida, Central Florida, snowbirds, St, America, Key West

☆ I'm a boomer and will never be able to retire. At 62, I'm already using my Social Security money.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Michelle Terhune | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

At 62, it feels like I'm going to be working forever as a freelancer. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . I wasn't so focused on rebuilding my life that I forgot about how close I was to the traditional retirement age. By making that choice, I faced the fact that I'd never be able to retire unless I remarried well or won the lottery. And at the age of 62 and one month, I made another move financial advisors tell you not to do: I started drawing my Social Security.

Persons: I've, —, I'd, I'm, Ernest Hemingway Organizations: Service, Security Locations: Europe, Slovenian

Kushner and Kloss take over Life magazineLife, the iconic photography-focused chronicler of the 20th century, has taken on many forms, including a weekly magazine, a website and the occasional special issue. Kushner and Kloss are buying the publication rights to Life from Dotdash Meredith, the print and digital publisher. The deal is being done through Bedford Media, the media start-up that Kloss leads as C.E.O. Life was once a central part of American culture, featuring the work of renowned photographers like Robert Capa and writing by top authors. (Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” first appeared in its pages.

Persons: Kushner, Kloss, Barry, Josh Kushner, Dotdash Meredith, Robert Capa, Ernest Hemingway’s “ Organizations: IAC, Bedford Media Locations: OpenAI

☆ Get Ready for the Great Trump Diaspora
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Paul Starobin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The Atlantic devoted an entire issue to the authoritarian horrors in store for America "If Trump Wins." AdvertisementA second Trump presidency, Speer said, could serve as a "catalyst" that further fuels the growing diaspora of Americans living in exile. Since 2015, Democrats Abroad, the foreign-based arm of the DNC, has nearly tripled its membership. Since 2015, Democrats Abroad, the foreign-based arm of the Democratic National Committee, has nearly tripled its membership, which now numbers in the hundreds of thousands. My wife and I are both Trump decriers, although we didn't begin our Italy property search to find a refuge from MAGA-infused America.

Persons: specter, Donald Trump —, Trump, Gallup, George W, Bush's, Barack Obama's, Doris Speer, Speer, —, Roe, Wade —, Martha McDevitt, Pugh, Emily, Francophiles, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin —, Nicole Kidman's, MAGA, batty, it's, John Galey, Paul Starobin Organizations: Washington Post, Trump, America, Association of Americans Resident Overseas, dodgers, DNC, Democratic National Committee, Leggett, Italy Facebook, Côte, IRS, Citizens Abroad, Los Angeles Times, New Books Network Locations: Umbria, Italy, Montana, Tuscany, Texas, Tennessee, America, Canada, Washington, Paris, United States, Iraq, Europe, Vietnam, Sedona , Arizona, Portugal, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Norway, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Golden, California, MAGA

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the world’s largest and most influential publishers, Simon & Schuster, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The list tells many stories, through the books selected, not selected, and the evolution of what has been highlighted. “A group of Simon & Schuster staffers took on the daunting challenge of selecting 100 titles from our history that are believed to best represent the breadth and depth of the company’s publishing program, across imprints,” the publisher announced Wednesday. “That book actually had an influence on the course of events.”Like many leading publishers, Simon & Schuster began as an independently owned company and vastly expanded after the 1960s. Along the way, Simon & Schuster acquired numerous other publishers, whose books are now part of the S&S catalog and its centennial list.

Persons: Simon & Schuster, Simon, Gregory Hartswick, Prosper Buranelli, Margaret Petherbridge, Richard Simon, Max Schuster, ”, Schuster, Jonathan Karp, Sloan, veteran’s, Karp, “, — Ralph Ellison, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Harper, James Baldwin, Alex Haley, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, ” Karp, Ntozake Shange’s, Jenny Han’s “, ” Carlos Eire’s “, ” Siddhartha Mukherjee's “, ” Jason Reynolds ’, Safiya, Wendy Sherwin, didn’t, John Irving, Bruce Springsteen’s, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer, Franklin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Rivals ’, Barack Obama’s, Hillary Clinton, Scott Fitzgerald’s “, ” Ernest Hemingway’s “, Alan Paton’s “, Scribner, Judy Blume’s “, Margaret ”, Walter Isaacson’s “ Steve Jobs, Frederick Backman's, Ove, Dale Carnegie’s, Leon Shimkin, David McCullough's, Wright, Blume, Woodward Organizations: Simon &, New York, HarperCollins, Dial Press, Doubleday, Knopf, “, Rivals, KKR, Win, Carnegie Locations: ”, Snow, Havana

☆ Josephine Baker, Still Moving
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Emily Labarge | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There was no shortage of epithets for Josephine Baker, the St. Louis-born polymath who took Paris by storm when she arrived there in 1925, aged 19, to headline “La Revue Nègre,” a show of all-Black performers at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. The French graphic designer Paul Colin said he’d never seen anyone move like her: “Part kangaroo, part prizefighter. A woman made of rubber, a female Tarzan.” To the writer Colette, a rumored lover, she was “a most beautiful panther,” and to Ernest Hemingway, “the most sensational woman anyone ever saw.” Over the next decade, she was also called “Black Venus,” “Black Pearl” and “Creole Goddess.”It is the Baker of this era — doing her scantily clad “danse sauvage” — who still looms large in the cultural imagination. She was an Art Deco icon who was inducted into France’s Panthéon in 2021 and honored by Beyoncé on her recent “Renaissance” tour. A new exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin presents Baker in the round — not as an object of entertainment, but as an artist and an activist.

Persons: Josephine Baker, Louis, ”, Paul Colin, he’d, Colette, Ernest Hemingway, “, Pearl ”, Baker, —, France’s, Beyoncé Organizations: France’s Panthéon, Neue Locations: Paris, Berlin

☆ Review: A Shady Documentary Becomes a Weapon of War in ‘Spain’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Jesse Green | More About Jesse Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In Silverman’s telling, the filmmaker, Joris Ivens, a Dutchman working in the United States, is already an undercover infiltrator for Soviet interests when the Spanish Civil War breaks out in 1936. Ivens was a real filmmaker, and his movie “The Spanish Earth,” released in 1937, was a real cause célèbre among leftists and artists. The frenemies Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos did write the screenplay, as Silverman relates. (He imagines shooting part of the documentary from an ant’s point-of-view, or a raindrop’s.) Nor, for all his faults, was Hemingway (Danny Wolohan) so complete a buffoon, given to shouting such hollow nonsense.

Persons: ”, Jen Silverman’s “, ” That’s, Joris Ivens, “, Rich, Franco, Ivens, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Silverman, Andrew Burnap, Hemingway, Danny Wolohan, Dos Passos, Erik Lochtefeld Organizations: Republican, Rich Fascist Locations: Jen Silverman’s “ Spain, United States, Spanish, Spain, Dos

☆ 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

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday, with the new laureate, or laureates, joining an illustrious list of past winners that ranges from Toni Morrison to Ernest Hemingway and Jean-Paul Sartre — who turned down the prize in 1964. Ernaux was just the 17th woman among the 119 Nobel literature laureates. The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers, as well as too male-dominated. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded Friday and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ends the awards season on Monday. The Nobel Prizes carry a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.

Persons: —, Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway, Jean, Paul Sartre —, Annie Ernaux, Ernaux, Moungi, Louis Brus, Alexei Ekimov, Karikó, Drew Weissman, Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Alfred Nobel, ___ Corder Organizations: STOCKHOLM, Swedish Academy, North, MIT, Louis Brus of Columbia University, Nanocrystals Technology Inc, COVID, Economic Sciences Locations: Normandy, France, Hungarian, French, Swedish, The Hague, Netherlands

NEW YORK (AP) — Along with such classics as “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany's,” Truman Capote had a history of work left uncompleted and unpublished. “I am so happy to be writing stories again — they are my great love," he wrote to a friend. She’d trusted him to the extent of her capital: let him sell her the land, allowed him to build the villa, supply, at pirate prices, the native paraphernalia that furnished it,” Capote wrote. Thomas Fahy, author of “Understanding Truman Capote,” says that the author likely related to Iris Greentree's sense of displacement and alienation. “You could see how his life became very lonely and isolated.”The Strand has published rare works by Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and many others.

Persons: ” Truman Capote, Capote, “, Fontana Vecchia, Lawrence, Miriam, ”, —, Iris Greentree, Signor Carlo Petruzzi, Carlo, She’d, ” Capote, who’d, Thomas Fahy, Truman Capote, Iris Greentree's, ” Fahy, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Andrew Gulli, Fahy, Gerard Clarke, Jack Dunphy, Clarke, Fontana, “ Blond Organizations: Magazine, of Congress Locations: New York City, Taormina, Sicily, D.H, Europe, American, “, Belle Vista, New York, New Orleans, Alabama, Connecticut, Monroeville , Alabama, Italy, America

☆ Jimmy Buffett, Roguish Bard of Island Escapism, Is Dead at 76
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Bill Friskics-Warren | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

His claim to squandering his wealth notwithstanding, Mr. Buffett proved to be a shrewd manager of his considerable fortune; in 2023, Forbes estimated his net worth at $1 billion. Mr. Buffett was also an accomplished author, one of only six writers, along with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and William Styron, to top both The Times’s fiction and nonfiction best-seller lists. By the time he wrote “Tales from Margaritaville” (1989), the first of his three No. “I could wind up like a lot of my friends did, burned out or dead, or redirect the energy,” he told The Washington Post in 1989. It was fun — all that hard drinking, hard drugging.

Persons: Buffett, Anthony DeCurtis, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Trump, Mr, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Styron, Margaritaville ”, “, ”, “ I’m, ” “ Organizations: Forbes, The New York Times, Washington Post Locations: Caribbean

☆ Lessons learned from hiking the Camino de Santiago in Spain
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( James Jeffrey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

Editor’s Note: Monthly Ticket is a CNN Travel series that spotlights some of the most fascinating topics in the travel world. About walking sticksThat first Camino, there was absolutely no way I was using walking sticks. Whatever the percentage, walking sticks help you balance on irregular ground – especially on tricky loose-stoned downhill slopes. Torres way, one of many Camino de Santiago routes, runs from Salamanca to Santiago de Compostela. About embracing the mysticalMany Camino pilgrims end their journey at the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in Galicia, Spain.

Persons: we’re, Saint James, –, James Jeffrey Walking, you’ll, Ernest Hemingway, ”, James Jeffrey I, James Jeffrey, Torres, ” Jan Morris, Ribera, Spain –, ” Peter Stanford, Paulo Coelho, Richard Aldington, don’t, Coelho, E.M . Forster Organizations: CNN, Port, Saint, Camino, Gran Canaria, Wine, Santiago de Compostela Cathedral Locations: Santiago, ”, Saint, Pamplona, Burgos, Leon, Santiago de Compostela, Camino, Europe, Africa, del Norte, Camino Norte, la Plata, Spain, Salamanca, “, New York, Canary, Rioja, Ribera del Duero, Portugal, Lisbon, Santiago de, Galicia, Portugal's Algarve, extremis

☆ Lessons learned from hiking the Camino de Santiago in Spain and Portugal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( James Jeffrey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

☆ A 6-year-old girl in Ukraine died in an air strike. A Russian Telegram post mocking her memory got 45,000 'laughing' reacts.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A viral Russian social media post appears to mock a little girl killed in Ukraine on Saturday. A picture of a memorial to 6-year-old Sophia attracted thousands of 'laughing' emojis in a Russian post. Six-year-old Sophia was among seven people killed and 144 injured in the strike on Chernihiv, northern Ukraine, per officials. But the post has been taken as a macabre joke, with more than 45,000 "laughing" emojis in Rushton's screenshot, shared on Sunday. Though neither the Ukrainian MOD post nor the pro-Russian account named the girl, they appear to both refer to Sophia, the young victim.

Persons: Sophia, Saviano Abreu, Jimmy Rushton, Ernest Hemingway, Chernihiv's, Oleksandr Lomako, —, Yuriy Belousov, Ihor Klymenko Organizations: UN, Service, Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, —, Russian Telegram, Ukrainian MOD, BBC Locations: Ukraine, Chernihiv, Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Russian

☆ Asia’s best bars for 2023 announced
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Lilit Marcus | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Hong Kong CNN —Asia comprises about 30% of the world’s land mass. In addition to ranking the top 50, the 50 Best organization – which also rates restaurants and, soon, hotels – acknowledged “best in destination” prizes for bars that were the highest rated from their country, city or region. It was his first-ever visit to Hong Kong. 50 Best/William ReedAsia’s 50 Best Bars 20231. COA (Hong Kong)2.

Persons: Jay Khan, Ernest Hemingway, Beckaly Franks, Hong Kong's, William Reed, Hong Konger, ”, Franks, “, Rohan Matmary, Trigona’s, Matmary, Singapore’s, Khan, Ajit Gurung, “ We’re, William Reed Asia’s, Aubrey Organizations: Hong Kong CNN —, Pontiac, Native American, CNN Travel, Bars Academy, BKK Social, Tropic, Sago, Cham, SG, Analogue Initiative, Chamber, Employees, Southside, Hope, Sesame, House Locations: Hong Kong, Hong Kong CNN — Asia, Asia, Hong, American, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Bangkok, Tokyo, Seoul, Tropic City, Taipei, Vesper, Republic, Delhi, Jakarta, Manhattan, Pantja, Manila, Mumbai, Copitas, Bengaluru, Guangzhou, Vender, Taichung, Kyoto

[1/34] Bulls from the Fuente Ymbro ranch run along Estafeta street during the fourth running of the bulls during Sanfermines in Pamplona, Spain, July 10, 2023. The famed bull-running festival engulfs downtown Pamplona every July when revellers from around the globe descend upon the northern Spanish city... Read moreSummary Picture essayPAMPLONA, Spain, July 12 (Reuters) - The bell tolls - eight chimes. Some are drawn to the Sanfermines - as the festival is popularly known - by the timeless prose of one of the grandees of 20th-century American literature. For the past 24 years, she has rented the same apartment in Pamplona for the festival with her family. WHAT HAS CHANGED AND WHAT HASN'TThere's a recurring debate among Pamplona's residents: Is the city's overcrowding during Sanfermines Hemingway's fault?

Persons: Fuente, St Fermin, savoured, Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway, Bill Hillmann, Hillmann's, He's, wilder, Hemingway's, John, Michael ., gored, hasn't, I've, Hillmann, Cheryl Mountcastle, Mary Welsh, Arrieta, Sanfermines, William Kappal, Kappal, it's, Susana Vera, David Latona, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Bulls, American, New, YouTube, Thomson Locations: Pamplona, Spain, Spanish, PAMPLONA, British, Paris, Chicago, New Orleans, Sanfermines, Miguel, France, Izu

☆ Spain's Pamplona bull-running festival kicks off with a bang
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MADRID, July 6 (Reuters) - The northern Spanish city of Pamplona on Thursday marked the start of its iconic nine-day Running of the Bulls festival with the ceremonial launching of a firework known as the "chupinazo". After the highly awaited bang, the crowds cheered "Long live St Fermin! ", in reference to Pamplona's patron saint, as bands playing the traditional txistu flute and drums led them off the square in a jovial march. This year marks the 100th anniversary of American author Ernest Hemingway's first visit to the festival, which he made internationally famous in his 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises". Reporting by David Latona; Editing by Andrei Khalip and Devika SyamnathOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: St Fermin, Ernest Hemingway's, David Latona, Andrei Khalip Organizations: Bulls, Thomson Locations: MADRID, Spanish, Pamplona

☆ Former adtech unicorn MediaMath nearly saved itself from bankruptcy. Then its last hope vanished.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

The adtech company held panel sessions and meetings at the "MediaMath Penthouse." But behind the scenes, MediaMath CEO Neil Nguyen had barely been sleeping, according to three people familiar with the matter. "We collectively believed as a company, board, and advisors that we had a deal in hand," the statement continued. When advertisers or agencies buy ads through a platform like MediaMath, the adtech company must pay publishers immediately for their ad space. But the adtech company must wait — often 90 days or more — to be paid by the advertiser or agency.

Persons: MediaMath, Goldman Sachs, MediaMath execs, Neil Nguyen, Nguyen, Olivier Anrigo, Xandr, Joe Zawadzki, Ernest Hemingway, Searchlight wasn't, Neil, Houlihan Lokey, Zeta, Viant, Chris Vanderhook, Tim Vanderhook, Frederick M, Brown, MGI, Lionel Hahn, Remco Westermann, Gary Hershorn, MGI's, Westermann, they'll, Zawadzki, he'd Organizations: Cannes Lions, Cannes, Goldman, Searchlight Capital, Carlton Hotel, Google, IBM, Bain Capital —, Aperiam, Searchlight, Silicon, Zeta Global, Media, Games Invest, Verve, MGI's Verve Group, Getty, Verve Group, Trade, World Trade, Trade Center Locations: France, Cannes, hobnobbing, Delaware, Japan, Manhattan, New York City, MediaMath, AperiamVentures

☆ Cormac McCarthy, dark genius of American literature, dead at 89
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Rosalba O'Brien | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The book was made into a movie - as were 2005's "No Country for Old Men" and 2006's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Road." He granted a rare exception for Oprah Winfrey in 2007, telling her: "I don't think (interviews) are good for your head. In a statement, Nihar Malaviya, CEO of Penguin Random House, said, "Cormac McCarthy changed the course of literature. McCarthy was married three times, divorcing his third wife Jennifer Winkley in 2006. Writing by Rosalba O'Brien; additional reporting by Joseph Ax; editing by Diane Craft and Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Cormac McCarthy, McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John McCarthy, Little, Oprah Winfrey, God, Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr, Cormac, Lee Holleman, Anne DeLisle, Faulkner's, Joel, Ethan Coen, Stella Maris, Nihar Malaviya, Jennifer Winkley, Cullen, John, Rosalba O'Brien, Joseph Ax, Diane Craft, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: YORK, Penguin Random, New York Times, Air Force, Thomson Locations: American, Santa Fe , New Mexico, Providence , Rhode Island, Tennessee, America, Europe, Knoxville , Tennessee, El Paso , Texas, Santa Fe, Texas

☆ A Longtime Barman at the Ritz Paris Makes a Clean Dirty Exit
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Dana Thomas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Pierce Brosnan would come on his own and say, ‘What should I drink?’” Mr. Field recalled. “They sent a lovely letter back that read, ‘Once you have done hotel school, please don’t hesitate to contact us,’” he said. He saved his money to attend the Ferrandi hotel school on the Left Bank of Paris. It was there, in the “dungeonlike basement bar,” Mr. Field said, that he first met Ms. Moss, with Johnny Depp, her boyfriend at the time. For men only, the Ritz Bar was where Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald famously drank their way through the Roaring Twenties.

Persons: “ Pierce Brosnan, Field, “, ’, James Bond, ’ ”, Oscar Wilde, Moss, Johnny Depp, César, ”, Marcel Proust, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald Organizations: Rugby, Ritz, Left Bank of Paris, César Ritz, “, Bar, Ritz Bar, Le Locations: Paris, England, Swiss, Chanel

☆ Picasso: Love Him or Hate Him?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Deborah Solomon | April | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

It is not hugely cool to profess a love for Picasso these days. This is what Picasso’s detractors — like Hannah Gadsby, the Australian comedian and Picasso basher, who will help curate a Picasso show at the Brooklyn Museum opening on June 2 — often miss. Picasso, by contrast, brought the weight of lived experience into his work, even when he was tethered to archetypal subjects. “The Mother” (1901), an early painting by Picasso, shows a view of motherhood purged of Renaissance idealization. The conventional view of the painting holds that the women are “dolled-up cocottes,” as John Richardson glibly put it in his biography of Picasso.

☆ The week that tech became exciting again
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN Business —Let’s be honest: For much of the past decade, tech events have been pretty boring. In each case, the changes were powered by new AI technology that allows for more conversational and complex responses. And there are already rumors of another event next month for Microsoft to demo similar features in its Office products, including Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Baidu also said this week that they would be launching their own ChatGPT-style services. Microsoft employee Alex Buscher demonstrates a search feature integration of Microsoft Bing search engine and Edge browser with OpenAI on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Redmond.

☆ Burt Bacharach, legendary composer of pop songs, dies at 94
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Bacharach was both an innovator and throwback, and his career seemed to run parallel to the rock era. He was an eight-time Grammy winner, a prize-winning Broadway composer for "Promises, Promises" and a three-time Oscar winner. Fellow songwriter Sammy Cahn liked to joke that the smiling, wavy-haired Bacharach was the first composer he ever knew who didn't look like a dentist. Bacharach was essentially a pop composer, but his songs became hits for country artists (Marty Robbins), rhythm and blues performers (Chuck Jackson), soul (Franklin, Luther Vandross) and synth-pop (Naked Eyes). He's everybody's composer ... Burt Bacharach!"

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