Javier Grillo-Marxuach , ‘LOST’, (from left): Jeremy Davies, Terry O’Quinn, Michael Emerson, Matthew Fox, Elizabeth Mitchell, Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly, Rebecca Mader, Jorge Garcia, Henry Ian Cusick, Naveen Andrews, Ken Leung, After his quotes about writing for Lost appeared in a Vanity Fair book excerpt Tuesday, veteran scribe Javier Grillo-Marxuach doubled down via […]
Javier Grillo-Marxuach , ‘LOST’, (from left): Jeremy Davies, Terry O’Quinn, Michael Emerson, Matthew Fox, Elizabeth Mitchell, Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly, Rebecca Mader, Jorge Garcia, Henry Ian Cusick, Naveen Andrews, Ken Leung, After his quotes about writing for Lost appeared in a Vanity Fair book excerpt Tuesday, veteran scribe Javier Grillo-Marxuach doubled down via […]
Arlo Parks’ sophomore album is, in some ways, accidental. “I started listening to everything I’d collected, and I was like, ‘Whoa! I pretty much got the raw material for an album here,’” she tells Variety . “I tricked myself somehow.” This helped the 22-year-old London native avoid some of the pressure that often accompanies an […]
At 7 years old, Harold already has some pretty advanced thoughts. Why, for instance, is time measured forward and backward, “but never off to the side”? Harold is the brainchild of Steven Wright, the Boston comedian whose own mind works in delightfully mysterious ways. “Next week I’m going to have an MRI to find out […]
Arlo Parks’ sophomore album is, in some ways, accidental. “I started listening to everything I’d collected, and I was like, ‘Whoa! I pretty much got the raw material for an album here,’” she tells Variety . “I tricked myself somehow.” This helped the 22-year-old London native avoid some of the pressure that often accompanies an […]
The Bluest Crab at Grandpa’s Funeral The following story was chosen by Anthony Doerr as the winner of the 2023 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. The prize is awarded annually by Selected Shorts and a guest author judge. Subscribe to Selected Shorts wherever you get your podcasts to hear this story performed by an […]
Following a neurotic writer and a wealthy aesthete over four bumpy decades, “Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style” is a gay rom-com that tugs at the heart. Well known as a humorist, Paul Rudnick delivers an emotional romance amid the one-liners in his new novel.Credit…Emilio Madrid When you purchase an independently reviewed book through […]
Photo courtesy of Ava Burzycki To the Victorians, tuberculosis was a deeply romantic ailment to be consumed by. To be rosy-cheeked, sweaty, pale and deteriorated to the point of extreme slenderness from tuberculosis was to be tragically beautiful — especially to artists, writers and other creative intellectuals. There was no greater sign of aestheticism and […]
“A lot of effort is going to be wasted on this”. Updated: May 30, 2023 11:33 am Posted: May 30, 2023 11:32 am Dragon Age writer David Gaider has shared his thoughts on the “lackluster” and “soulless” nature of procedurally generated AI dialogue, while also predicting failure for developers who can’t forsee the technology’s current […]
John Gall Books by Izumi Suzuki, Theodore McCombs, Katherine Heiny and Steven Heighton. Credit…John Gall You might think you’ve read stories like Izumi Suzuki’s. They have a punchy, au courant voice and teem with bad feelings about living with other people, not to mention living at all. Publishing tends to chase hard-edged youth for the […]
