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• The Many Reasons Not To Date A Reader

  07-04-2024 22:00 via bookriot.com
  
  There are the bleedover emotions. There’s the tendency at a party to hide in a corner with an e-reader app open, looking like readers are scrolling Insta. And then … there’s the budget. – Book Riot
  
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• An Independent News Site Was Critical Of Facebook, And Then Its Links Were Blocked

  07-04-2024 21:30 via kansasreflector.com
  
  After an outcry, Facebook apologized for blocking links to the independent Kansas Reflector – then expanded the crackdown to other news sites. A spokesperson blamed “a mistaken security issue” and then “wouldn’t elaborate on how the mistake happened and said there would be no further explanation.” – Kansas Reflector
  
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• Japanese American Women Made Art During Internment – And They’re Finally Getting Recognition

  07-04-2024 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “During these dark times, many people turned to art, and the Topaz Art School was born, where hundreds took classes in still-life and architectural drawing within the internment camp at Tanforan. The teachers were interned, too.” – The New York Times
  
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• As Illinoise Opens On Broadway, Choreographer Justin Peck Plans To Conquer Hollywood As Well

  07-04-2024 20:30 via thedailybeast.com
  
  “Peck, who has created almost 40 works for NYCB and other ballet companies around the world, is ambitious to bring modern dance to bigger, more diverse audiences on both stage and screen,” and the speedy opening of Illinoise on Broadway is just part of that. – The Daily Beast
  
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• Why Are We So Obsessed With Beloved TV Shows Sticking Their Landings?

  07-04-2024 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  There is no “final score” for a series. “The modern fixation on endings is partly a creation of the TV business itself. For most of television history, the planned ending of anything was a rarity. Shows aired until the money guys decided otherwise.” – The New York Times
  
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• Writers Must Be Able To Perform Magic

  07-04-2024 19:30 via lithub.com
  
  Myriam J.A. Chancy: “When history is a nightmare, all one can do is circumvent it, write another version, a fiction. This is what literature is for: rewriting, revising.” – LitHub
  
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• Margaret Tynes, Who Soared In Verdi And Strauss, Has Died At 104

  07-04-2024 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Tynes, as a Black woman, found little work in the United States, but “with her incendiary, full-throated voice, in roles like Aida and Salomé, sang at opera houses in Vienna, Prague and Budapest, earning high praise on the continent.” – The New York Times
  
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• Cloud Atlas, At Twenty, Is A Tattoo-Worthy Novel

  07-04-2024 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The complexity and melancholy of Cloud Atlas have inspired “cosplay, reader art, fan fiction and scholarship … in great quantity. It is a response that one might expect to a bestselling fantasy series, a video game, or the unveiling of a Taylor Swift album; rarely a literary novel.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• It’s Not Easy, But It’s Possible, To Be Both Critic And Creator

  07-04-2024 18:00 via slate.com
  
  Linda Holmes is not just any critic, but host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour and an alum of the revered sarcastic review site Television Without Pity. Holmes is also a novelist. How does she deal with reviews of her work, and, more broadly, how does a critic deal with criticism? – Slate
  
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• The Marlborough Gallery Is Closing After Nearly 80 Years

  07-04-2024 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  “Perhaps the real story here is how Marlborough managed to last nearly eight decades when so many galleries have only a decade in the sun. This confirms its business model of selling apparently timeless artists was pretty effective.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• How Richard Serra’s Work Will Outlive Humanity

  07-04-2024 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “1300 B.C.E. Copper and tin smelters around the eastern Mediterranean encounter a shortage of materials and begin experimenting with some other ores, eventually producing implements out of iron.” – The New York Times
  
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• Percival Everett Wants To Hear The Jeers

  07-04-2024 16:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The author of Erasure, adapted as American Fiction and nominated for several Oscars, and the new James, says a bad review “might be fun? That’s gonna be kind of crazy, to be upset about a bad review. Like, what else can you expect in the world?” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• If No One Will Read Your Academic Work, Perhaps You Need To Hire A Student Symphonic Band

  07-04-2024 16:00 via npr.org
  
  Her climate change studies were getting a professor down. So she turned to the University of South Florida’s school of music. “Composition professor Paul Reller worked with students to map pitch, rhythm and duration to the data. It came alive … in ways it simply does not on a spreadsheet.” – NPR
  
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• The Big Business Of Two-Actor Musicals

  07-04-2024 15:30 via latimes.com
  
  “Musicals with such small casts are potentially big business, in part because it can be easier to recoup their streamlined production costs compared with a traditional stage extravaganza, with savings on actors’ salaries, costumes, sets, makeup and more.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• What Happened To Berlin?

  07-04-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The city was a beacon of artistic freedom. Then came October 7. Now, “a climate of fear and recrimination has put Berlin’s status as an international cultural capital in greater hazard than at any time since 1989.” – The New York Times
  
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• West End Production Of Romeo And Juliet Sees Barrage Of Racist Abuse Toward Its Leading Lady

  07-04-2024 14:30 via bbc.com
  
  The theatre company said, “We are working with a remarkable group of artists. We insist that they are free to create work without facing online harassment.” – BBC
  
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• Cole Brings Plenty, Actor In Yellowstone Spinoff 1923, Is Found Dead In Kansas

  07-04-2024 14:00 via msn.com
  Days before the actor’s body was found, Lawrence, Kansas, police said they had probable cause to arrest Brings Plenty “in response to allegations of domestic violence.” – CNN (MSN)
  
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• Texas Prisons Regulate Women’s Reading Material And Self-Education

  07-04-2024 13:30 via washingtonpost.com
  “Living in a cell the size of a parking space without a television, tablet, phone, or air-conditioning and an only temperamental radio signal, a book is more than entertainment and much needed distraction. It is a rare moment when I’m not reminded where I am.” – LitHub
  
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• How To Shop In A Used Bookstore

  07-04-2024 13:00 via washingtonpost.com
  Some wisdom from Michael Dirda includes wearing grubby clothes, starting at the sales cart – and taking your time. – Washington Post
  
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• The Taotie; A Spirit Inside; Landscape and Imagination review – three superb shows mark 20 years of Compton Verney

  07-04-2024 10:00
  
  Compton Verney, Warwickshire
  The Georgian mansion turned world-class art venue celebrates its birthday with a trio of excellent exhibitions that reflect on the colonial past, explore the inner lives of women and non-binary artists, and look anew at landscape paintingCompton Verney turns 20 this year. It deserves more than the modest bouquet of balloons in its foyer. A world-class museum in a Georgian mansion, combined with gleaming contemporary galleries and a sculpture park unfolding through th
  
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• ‘Another layer of pigment needed adding to the canvas’: artist John Akomfrah on changing the narrative, from Windrush to colonialism

  07-04-2024 08:00
  
  As he prepares to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale, Akomfrah talks about fleeing Ghana aged nine, the Rwanda fiasco, and creating images that shift the dialIf I’d met him 50-odd years ago, John Akomfrah says, with the infectious giggle that punctuates his conversation, two words would have sprung immediately to my mind: “Black nerd.” He was the kid at school who soaked up every bit of cultural learning going, who always had his head in a book on the bus. There was, of c
  
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