Apple's Watch Ultra, with its 2000-nit digital display and GPS capabilities, is a far cry from its Revolutionary War-era self-winding forebears. What sorts of wondrous body-mounted technologies might we see another hundred years hence? In his new book, The Skeptic's Guide to the Future, Dr.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-10-01 14:30:47 UTC ]
The centerpiece of Asali Solomon’s story is a dinner party that goes off the rails. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-10-28 14:04:39 UTC ]
Hosting a dinner party can be scary. It can feel like there’s pressure to be perfect, to set up some elaborate “tablescape” or make food so extravagant, complicated, or Instagrammable that it verges on the absurd. Now there is a significant food writing movement working to counteract that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-13 09:49:36 UTC ]
Healthy cocktails, accessible Japanese cooking, and Salvador Dalí’s master plan for a dinner party, all coming your way in November. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alexander McCall Smith has won this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party, published by Birlinn imprint Polygon. This is the first time McCall Smith, the author of No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series published by Little, Brown, has appeared on the comic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hunched over my keyboard, I'm haunted by anecdotes of faster writers. Christopher Hitchens composing a Slate column in 20 minutesafter a chemo session, after a "full" dinner party, late on a Sunday night. The infamously productive Trollope, who used customized paper! "He had a note pad that had... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2011-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]