NPR

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American writer Christopher Bollen received the, uh, honor, which was announced on Thursday. His novel The Destroyers featured a memorable pair of less-than-appealing analogies.

Poets & Writers

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The name Holy Cow! Press (holycowpress.org), complete with exclamation point, came to publisher Jim Perlman in a dream. Forty years ago that dream became an independent press, which today boasts a catalogue of more than 125 poetry collections, novels

TIME

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LISA HALLIDAY’S DEBUT novel, Asymmetry, begins with a lopsided affair—a perfect vehicle for a story of inexperience and advantage. This romance is between Alice, a young woman in publishing, and Ezra Blazer, a literary éminence grise, who resembles a

The Paris Review

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From the cover of issue no. 136 (Fall 1995) of The Paris Review. It has been said, erroneously, that poets are cat people, novelists dog people. In fact, lots of novelists are into cats. Hilary Mantel included a photo of her cat in her Art of Fiction

Literary Hub

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Alexander Chee’s new book, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, is available now from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. What was the first book you fell in love with? The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. LeGuin. This novel left such a mark on the inside of m

3D World

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“It’s about understanding the creative decisions [from the Original Trilogy] that make the shots look the way they look,” Hickel explains, in terms of how The Mandalorian refers to the shot-design heritage of Star Wars. He goes on to explain that a g

The Millions

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In the past year I have read several books related to my writing project, most of them connected with old documents and newspapers, as well as some classical works, many short stories and foreign novels translated into Arabic. On the Iraqi front, per

Edge

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Developer Omega Force, Square Enix Publisher Square Enix Format PC, PS4, Switch Release 2018 To play Dragon Quest Builders 2 is to finally understand what it means to be rewarded for all your hard work. Sure, it has XP bars and quest-completion track

TIME

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In Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg’s buzzy first novel, historian Dr. Voth discovers a suspicious manuscript that upends centuries-old assumptions about notorious jail breaker Jack Sheppard. The document reveals that 18th century street prowl

The Atlantic

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Dorthe Nors’s newest novel, about a 40-something woman in Copenhagen learning to drive for the first time, is more profound than its premise suggests.

India Today

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The author of five novels, Kochi based Anees Salim has won critical acclaim for his subtle, literary approach to tragedy. He spoke with India Today about the vision he brings to the page. Q. Who do you like to read? A. My favourite authors continue t

The Millions

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David Miller’s That Glimpse of Truth was a constant companion this year. It is a collection of 100 stories that Miller believes are amongst the finest ever written. While there are a number of writers whose work I wish Miller had included, each story

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Xhenet Aliu | PAGES 290 | GENRE Novel IN WATERBURY, CONN., DINER waitresses refill coffee cups for customers trapped in the shadows of abandoned brass factories that loom across the street. They fall in love with men who promise the world befor

Literary Hub

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On March 10th, 1971, Lou Reed read at the At the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery and announced to the audience that he would no longer play music; he was now a poet. He performed the following poem that night. This is because I alw

Poets & Writers

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POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES state, national, and international prizes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We list only prizes of $1,000 or more, prizes of less than $1,000 that charge no entry fee, and prestigious nonmonetary awards.

Filmfare

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Veeru Devgan’s life reads like one of those ’70s masala films, in which he made his mark as an action director. It’s said four of his friends and he ran away from home in Amritsar and travelled ticketless to Mumbai to make it as ‘heroes’. The year wa

People

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Scrabble. My wife [Donna Dixon] is a champion-level player. We spend hours of the month playing it. I always lose to her. Just be quieter. Stop talking and listen and take counsel from those you love. Nelson Mandela, for sure. My three daughters and

Retro Gamer

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fusoya.eludevisibility.org/lm ■ Probably the most famous ROM-hacking utility ever released, FuSoYa’s tool lets you edit all facets of Super Mario World – create your own levels, make your own worlds, go absolutely nuts. emulicious.net/kidded ■ This i

Country Homes & Interiors

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Ma Richmond and I have given up hopes of a holiday-holiday, but are nonetheless looking forward to a week reading novels on loungers at the sunny end of the garden. The challenge of holidaying at home is shoving the to-do list in a drawer and forgett

Total Film

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Academic Allison P. Palumbo dissects a wide range of films featuring strong women (from Capt. Marvel to Katniss), exploring why so few of them are allowed a satisfying, non-tragic romantic life. A perceptive if dense treatise. Timothy Zahn returns to

Los Angeles Times

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The Kirkus Prize finalists were announced Tuesday, with six titles each in three categories - fiction, nonfiction and young readers literature. Because that final category is broken into three divisions (picture books, middle grade and young adult),

Filmfare

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Dad achieved a rare transformation for his character of an oppressed peasant. While I was at the Moscow Film Institute, they showed all of Raj Kapoor’s films - Awara, Jaagte Raho, Shri 420. They never showed Do Bigha Zameen. They believed it showed I

Literary Hub

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In post 11/8 America, the citizenry became more aware, more active, more willing to submit themselves to self-examination. Yet while the world of journals both print (Freeman’s), and online (Guernica, Lit Hub, Electric Literature), have increased the

WHO

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J.Lo shares 13-year-old twins Max and Emme with ex Marc Anthony, and A-Rod is dad to Natasha, 16, and Ella, 12, with ex-wife Cynthia Scurtis. “I was so loving to his kids and he was so loving and accepting of mine, and they embraced each other right

Retro Gamer

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» System: Switch » Buy it from: Online » Buy it for: £7.19 Match Of The Millennium is a brilliant crossover fighter, with an astonishing set of features for a handheld game from 1999. The game features 18 characters drawn from series including Street

The Paris Review

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Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by signing up for the Re

Literary Hub

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It is rare for a literary critic to remain alive for readers decades after his death—even rarer than for a novelist or a poet. Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) belonged to what Randall Jarrell called “the age of criticism,” a time when the analysis and ju

Literary Hub

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In this video in support of the Festival Neue Literatur, which celebrates contemporary German-language and American fiction (this year’s theme: Queer as Volk) and begins today in New York, Eileen Myles talks about the importance of translators and FN

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - The first trailer for the next "Star Wars" movie was streamed live Friday morning in Chicago, and if you weren't lucky enough to be in the room where it happened, think Jobs-era Apple iProduct unveiling, with more black capes than black tur

Retro Gamer

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■ The sarlacc beast is a bit more animated here than in Return Of The Jedi. And it’s got tentacles, an early precursor to the digitentacles that were added in the Special Edition version of the film. ■ Look out for it poking a cheeky tentacle through