By the time this post gets out into the world, I will have seen Christopher Nolan odyssey At least twice. There are a few small things I would change if it were up to me, but overall it blew me away; For a nerd who loves Greek mythology, an epic journey, lots of juicy gods
A A reclusive interior designer named Paul travels from his home in Orkney to the Norwegian coastal city of Stavanger for the most unusual commissions. A datacenter containing huge Internet servers is located near the fjord on the outskirts of town, and a prestigious art magazine is paying large sums of money to refurbish it.
Artist and author Molly Crabapple joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and VV Ganesanthan to talk about the Jewish Labor Bund and its socialist, secular, anti-Semitic principles. Crabapple, whose artist great-grandfather Sam Rothbort was part of the organization, discusses researching and writing about new York Times best selling book, Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story
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The beach is read as a concept that means a lot of different things to different people. You can clearly see this in Book Riot’s list of the best beach books of all time, which ranges from thrillers to historical epics. My favorite tongue-in-cheek definition of beach reading is exactly as it’s described: a book
It’s Comic-Con season again! Nowadays, there are countless programs to choose from in all parts of the country and even the world. But at one time, the only way comic book fans could connect with each other was to scour the letters columns of sci-fi magazines for the addresses of fellow fans in the hopes
It seems like everyone is writing memoirs these days, no matter what story they have to tell or what they’ve been through, or whether they’re famous or not. Which is great because reading is a great escape from life, and sometimes reading about someone else’s life is just what you need to do that. With
Colson Whitehead attends the table in 2016 underground RailroadA work of fictional historical fiction in which enslaved people use a real railroad running beneath the South to escape to freedom. The novel is one of only eight books to win both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. When Whitehead wins the
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Since 2006, the Center for Fiction has been highlighting the best debut novels of the year through its First Novel Award. This year’s 180 eligible titles were published in the US between January 1 and December 31, and were narrowed down to 19 books by more than 500 authors, librarians, booksellers and others. The shortlist