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☆ Booker Prize 2024: Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins annual literature award
  + stars: | 2024-11-12 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
London AP —British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility of Earth. The prize is open to English-language writers of any nationality and has a reputation for transforming writers’ careers. De Waal praised the “crystalline” writing and “capaciousness” of Harvey’s succinct novel — at 136 pages in its UK paperback edition, one of the shortest-ever Booker winners. Harvey is the first female Booker winner since 2019, though one of five women on this year’s shortlist, the largest number in the prize’s 55-year history. Founded in 1969, the Booker Prize is open to novels originally written in English published in the UK or Ireland.
Persons: Samantha Harvey, Booker, Harvey, ”, Edmund de Waal, ” Gaby Wood, ” Harvey, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Hilary, Waal, Percival Everett, “ James, Twain’s, Huckleberry Finn ”, Jim, Rachel Kushner’s, Canadian Anne Michaels, Charlotte Wood’s, Yael van der, De Waal, Paul Lynch, ” Lynch Organizations: London AP, Space, Prize Foundation, Ireland Locations: British, Canada, United States, Australia, Netherlands, Canadian, London, Japan
☆ Book Club: Discuss ‘James,’ by Percival Everett, With Us
  + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Mj Franklin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Welcome to The Book Review Book Club. Every month, we select a book to discuss on our podcast and with our readers. In Everett’s latest book, “James,” Jim becomes, you guessed it, James. The broad strokes of Twain’s character are still there — James is still an enslaved man who runs away after he hears that his master is going to sell him. But in Everett’s hands, James is no longer a helpless companion.
Persons: Dolly Alderton, Barbara Kingsolver, Jim, Huckleberry Finn, ”, Black, Huck, he’s, Mark Twain, machina, Percival Everett, “ James, ” Jim, James Locations: Mississippi, American
☆ Beyoncé makes history with ‘Cowboy Carter’ hitting No. 1
  + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
CNN —Beyoncé may have proclaimed that her latest project “ain’t a country album,” but someone forgot to tell the charts that. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart with her “Act II: Cowboy Carter,” according to Billboard. The accomplishment comes at a time where there has been debate over the fact that Beyoncé herself is not a country music artist. If the argument is made that Bey lacks the country music pedigree, how about two of the genre’s biggest stars? lang have also found acceptance in the country music space.
Persons: CNN —, Cowboy Carter, ”, Beyoncé, Bey, Mathew Knowles, Tina Knowles, Keith Urban, Shania Twain Getty, That’s, Shania Twain, Twain, Carter, “, Queen Bey Organizations: CNN, Billboard, Country Music Association, Urban Locations: Texas, Houston , Texas, American, Alabama, Mama , Louisiana, Gadsden , Alabama, Galveston , Texas, Louisiana, Australia, Canada
☆ Fact Check-Quote about truth and fools is falsely attributed to Mark Twain
  + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, did not say, “The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie,” according to experts familiar with his life and work. – Mark Twain.”“Perfect description of a liberal Democrat,” reads one comment, while another says, “Yup, people who believe in god is biggest example.”Reuters did not find the quote attributed to Twain in websites dedicated to his work, such as the Mark Twain Project Online (here), the Center for Mark Twain Studies (here) and Twain Quotes (www.twainquotes.com/). “I can't say that I know of any evidence, in print or manuscript, that Clemens said that,” said Robert H. Hirst, general editor of the Mark Twain Project Online and curator of the Mark Twain Papers (here, here) in an email to Reuters. “In fact, I have not seen an attribution to Twain dated prior to 2021.”VERDICTFalse. There is no evidence that American writer Mark Twain said this quote.
Persons: Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain, ”, “ Yup, Twain, Clemens, Robert H, Hirst, “ it’s, ” Matthew Seybold, ” Seybold, “, Twain’s, Read Organizations: ” Reuters, Mark, Mark Twain Studies, Reuters, Center, Elmira College
☆ Adele reminds us how Vegas made artist residencies cool
  + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Caryn Rose | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
After being abruptly postponed in January, Adele’s Las Vegas residency, “Weekends With Adele,” made its debut at Caesar’s Palace on Friday. But Adele highlights how it’s been transformed into an artistic achievement, why it’s never going away and reminds us how Las Vegas made residencies cool. This isn’t a complete list because a Las Vegas residency is no longer necessarily out of the ordinary. Does this all mean a Vegas residency is the right fit for everyone? In the shifting economic climate and post-pandemic realities, a Vegas residency may be more appealing to artists whowouldn’t normally consider it.
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