She-Hulk: Attorney at Law star Tatiana Maslany says the show’s writers loved having the chance to troll the show’s most “unoriginal” detractors. In an interview with Variety , Maslany shared that head writer Jessica Gao knew from the outset how a certain sector of Marvel fans would view Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk as a woman supposedly invading […]
Cherokee Nation citizen and journalist Nancy Marie Spears holds the three awards she accepted at the recent Native American Journalists Association conference. After graduating from Oklahoma University, she is now working for The Imprint News covering youth-related issues. WILL CHAVEZ/CHEROKEE PHOENIX PHOENIX – One of the many Native journalists who attended this year’s Native American […]
Tish Delaney Co Tyrone author Tish Delaney is excited about her upcoming appearance at the Belfast International Arts Festival. On October 19, in an already sold out show, she will be in conversation with Limerick author Donal Ryan. “It’s such a delightful thing to think about. I’m a huge fan of his books,” says Tish. […]
Write or draw like it’s real paper with this iPad screen protector. Photo: SwitchEasy If you’re like me, you love your iPad for its many uses and its portability. And an Apple Pencil is fun to use for both writing and drawing on the tablet. But wouldn’t it be more rewarding if it felt more […]
Andreas Scrosati, Danna Stern, Ted Miller The looming writers strike in the U.S. could be an “interesting opportunity” for producers working outside the country in an era of globalized content, CAA’s head of Global TV Ted Miller told a panel at the MIA Market in Rome on Thursday. “I think there’s likely going to be […]
Being Funny in a Foreign Language , the 1975’s fifth album, was born from reflection. After the band noticed that the new music they were working on felt like an extension of their last record, 2020’s Notes on a Conditional Form , they stopped to reconsider. “That elicited a bit of a downer,” says band […]
When Nicholas Gage gives a talk titled “A Writer’s Odyssey” Oct. 21 as part of Grafton’s Small Stones Festival of the Arts, he’ll begin with “an immigrant kid who didn’t know English at the age of 10.” That kid, born Nikos Gatzoyiannis, had already been through a lot of trauma. His earliest years were spent […]
iStock.com First there was Nathalie, an English language learner who whispered that she’d never done well in English, never liked it, but this course was different . And her writing was getting better. Then there was Nseandra, who avoided the news because it was depressing and paralyzing. Yet Nseandra became one of my strongest reporters, […]
Among the words that have long lain in helpless exhaustion, shunned and hidden away, words that one made a mockery of oneself by using, words that were so drained of meaning that they shriveled and became ugly warnings—among these one finds the word “poet.” And any person who still took up the activity of writing, […]
Culture The decommissioned Wylfa nuclear power station on Anglesey. Photo by rodtuk is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Philippa Holloway I’m a firm believer that writing comes from place. Stories arise from characters who are somewhere, stories involve events that occur somewhere, writers create a somewhere on the page into which the reader can step, […]
