Via: The Things Courteney Cox had a sneaky way of writing her lines down on the set of Friends that nobody knew about. While some celebrities are able to memorize pages of dialogue, nailing every word in one take, other stars have a little more trouble remembering the lines they’re supposed to say . Some […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Machine That Won the War’ is a 1961 short story by the science-fiction author Isaac Asimov (1920-92). The story is set shortly after Earth and its associated worlds have won a war against an enemy civilisation known as the Denebians. A vast computer named Multivac is credited with […]
Award-winning poet and writer Téa Mutonji is Western’s incoming writer-in-residence. (Sarah Bodri photo) As Western’s incoming writer-in-residence, Téa Mutonji feels right at home, relating to students. The award-winning poet and author is a student herself, currently pursuing her MFA in the low-residency creative writing program at NYU, where she was awarded the 2021 Jill Davis […]
The folk singer and author tells NME why he was allowed to “run wild” in creating a Secret Lair set for the hugely popular card game 16th August 2023 John Darnielle, with artwork from Magic: The Gathering’s ‘Featuring: The Mountain Goats’ set. Credit: David A. Smith / Getty Images, Wizards Of The Coast. 4 0 […]
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover of Lilly Dancyger’s forthcoming essay collection about female friendship, First Love , which will be published by The Dial Press in May. Here’s a bit more about the book from the publisher: When Lilly Dancyger’s beloved cousin Sabina was murdered just as both girls were entering their […]
The time had come again. The little white bookshelf in the dining room, two shelves, three feet wide, was full. Overly full. The books were stacked in columns, bottom edges rather than spines showing, each shelf crammed tight. Elsewhere in our compact flat, a few other piles of books bubbled up like springs. These are […]
A panoramic illustration shows a young Black girl in a tutu pushing forward out of a pool of her own tears as if doing the breaststroke. Floating on top of the water beneath her are some of the words that have made her cry: “too big,” “cow,” “ha ha,” “moose.” “The first time I looked […]
The following is from xxx’s Lojman . Ojen was born in 1981 to Kurdish parents in Malatya, Turkey. In 2014, Ojen published her striking debut novel, Aşı (Vaccine) , about a state-sponsored vaccine campaign in an imaginary Kurdish village. That same year, Ojen was recognized among the ten most important emerging voices in Turkish literature. […]
This year at Gen Con was the big debut of the TTRPG adaptation of famous comics. No, not the one put out by the big dog that has all those superheroes. I’m referring to DIE The Roleplaying Game , an adaptation of Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Han’s popular Image Comics title of the same name. […]
Do memes live rent-free in your head? The Workaholic writers’ room famously kept whiteboards of “over-done jokes” that were verboten. From edge to edge, you can find bits of brain decay dating back several years like rings on the brittle stump of pop culture: “Too soon?” “Laughy McLaugherson.” “We have fun.” “That’s not a thing.” […]
