on Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity: School literary magazines have long been a tradition in high schools and colleges. But since the advent of the Internet, youth-oriented literary magazines have expanded to include submissions from students all over the world. A good number of these magazines are staffed by students themselves. Some of […]
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have been collaborating since they met in a bar mitzvah class at age 12. Beginning with 2007’s Superbad, they’ve written films that include Pineapple Express, This Is the End, Sausage Party, and, most recently, An American Pickle. Now, the duo break down writing films in our latest 101 video series, “Screenwriting 101.” Rogen and Goldberg kick off with a…
via Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Teach ‘Screenwriting 101’ — My Site
Every year, Longwood University’s John Dos Passos Prize sets out to celebrate one vital but under-appreciated writer. Previous recipients include Colson Whitehead, Tom Wolfe, and Annie Proulx. (Obviously, they were awarded the Dos Passos Prize before they won, say, two Pulitzer Prizes.) This year’s finalists were announced today. “These finalists represent everything the Dos Passos Prize…
via Who are America’s most talented but under-appreciated writers? — Literary Hub
Alain and Léonard, a writer and a publisher, are overwhelmed by the new practices of the publishing world. Deaf to the desires of their wives, they struggle to find their place in a society whose code they can no longer crack. Director Olivier AssayasStarring Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne, Nora Hamzawi Non-Fiction isn’t a surrender, nor is it a […]
via Trailer: “Non-Fiction” with Juliette Binoche — Pas De Merde
Fruit of the Drunken Tree [2018] – ★★★ Ingrid Rojas Contreras is a Colombian writer and Fruit of the Drunken Tree is her debut book in which she tells the story of seven-year old Chula and her family living in the 1990s in Bogotá, Colombia in the shadows of the unpredictable world of Pablo Escobar […]
via Review: Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras — Thoughts on Papyrus
The Satapur Moonstone – Sujata Massey India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic […]
The links below are to articles reporting on the winner of the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize – Linton Kwesi Johnson. For more visit:https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/07/08/153226/johnson-wins-2020-pen-pinter-prize/– https://publishingperspectives.com/2020/07/english-pen-pinter-prize-goes-to-poet-and-reggae-artist-linton-kwesi-johnson-uk/– https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/07/living-legend-linton-kwesi-johnson-wins-pen-pinter-prize
Inhalt von “Strange Weather in Tokyo” in 3 Sätzen: In “Strange Weather in Tokyo” begegnen sich eines Nachts Tsukiko und ihr ehemaliger Japanisch-Lehrer Sensei in einer kleinen Bar in Tokyo. Sie sind sofort auf einer Wellenlänge und treffen sich nun regelmäßig zum Essen und gemeinsamen Sake-Trinken. Trotz ihres großen Altersunterschieds fühlen sie sich, auch wenn…
via Literatur in 300 Wörtern (60): Hiromi Kawakami – Strange Weather in Tokyo — Sommerdiebe
These are deeply unsettling times we are living in, aren’t they? They make us yearn for a sense of solidity and thirst for a firm grounding beneath our feet. Perhaps it exists as a present reality, closer at hand than we might think. Creation breathes out its beauty and begs us to receive it as […]
via reality: what helps keep us grounded and at peace — Poetry Joy
We mentioned the National Parks Arts Foundation back in February, but so much water has passed under the bridge that you might have forgotten it by now. In fact, NPAF is currently accepting applications for residencies at six different National Parks and a variety of dates in 2021. Many of the applications have submission deadlines […]
via feeling optimistic? — The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog
Coming out in September is the start of a new Thrawn series by sci-fi mastermind, Timothy Zahn. It is an origin story of Grand Admiral Thrawn, in a new Star Wars trilogy. StarWars.com has an excerpt of the forthcoming book to be released on September 1, 2020 in both written and audiobook formats on their […]
Hi friends, welcome to something a little different here at Reader Voracious! Today I have an unboxing and feature of Dwarf Story by W.W. Marplot that I’m really excited to share with you all. This package was sent to me by Books Forward to unbox for you. Dwarf Story was released on June 30, 2020…
via Unboxing Dwarf Story by Professor W.W. Marplot — Reader Voracious
Er galt als ebenso gut wie umstritten. Gut – bezogen auf die Qualität seiner Bilder, umstritten – bezogen auf deren Sujets. Unbestritten ist jedoch, dass der Fotograf Helmut Newton (1920–2004) ein Großer seines Metiers war. Helmut Newton – The Bad and The Beautiful, ein Film über sein Leben und Werk, der nun in den Kinos…
Let me tell you a story about the time my sugar mummy made me cook porridge for her. First of “cooking porridge” means cooking porridge. It is not a roundabout way of alluding to some kinky type of sugar mummy perversion from the nineteen nineties. I know the younger readers of this blog like to […]
via A Tale of Romance, Lost Love, and Bushera — Let Me Tell You A Story
Phil Slattery, Writer, Publisher 