In a franchise filled with convoluted additions, this animated anthology feels closest to the pulpy wonder of George Lucas’s first filmsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailSince the release of the first Star Wars film in 1977, lightsabers, Wookiees and the trumpeting blare of Darth... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-03-18 14:00:46 UTC ]
Companies claim this is ‘fair use’. I think it’s a digital heistSign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morningAustralia’s close-knit literary community – from writers and agents through to the Australian Society of Authors –... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-03-06 23:17:54 UTC ]
Details are beginning to emerge about the ‘decade-long’ adaptation of JK Rowling’s books – with some starry actors reportedly in negotiationsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe Hogwarts Express is gathering steam, with new details about HBO’s Harry Potter series starting to emerge... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-12-06 05:54:16 UTC ]
HarperPop “will partner with high-profile brands and personalities to craft unique books for their fans and communities” under a new imprint to be overseen by executives from HarperCollins Children's Books and Morrow’s Dey Street Books imprint. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
Another novel written by a UK author has been withdrawn as publishers and booksellers grapple with the issues of First Nations culture and history as plot pointsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen British crime writer Elly Griffiths released her fourth novel in the bestselling Ruth... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-11-22 23:00:25 UTC ]
Fans will love these deep dives into 'Ted Lasso,' Taylor Swift, and 'Gilmore Girls.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
BuzzFeed shares soared early Wednesday after the entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy reported a stake in the online media company and asked for talks with the board.Ramaswamy, who ended his candidacy in January and threw his support behind Donald Trump, has taken a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-05-22 14:46:15 UTC ]
Marisa Crawford is the founder of the feminist blog Weird Sister, which highlights writing at the intersections of feminism, literature, and pop culture. This spring the Feminist Press released The Weird Sister Collection, a vital anthology that collects a decade’s worth of writing published on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-04-08 08:54:36 UTC ]
Writing about pop culture and current technology is always a gamble, pitting critique of the present against longevity, a story that will still feel relevant after we’re gone. But for novelists (present company included) who were exposed to the Real World before the, um, real world, reality TV... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-09-27 11:00:00 UTC ]
Lifestyle and comedy publisher Betches, which chronicles dating and pop culture for a predominantly female audience, just introduced digital advertising to its newly redesigned website in late July. The move is part of a broader effort to diversify its business and signal a new chapter for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2023-08-03 11:50:06 UTC ]
As the government passed landmark legislation for the arts, it was jarring to see the national broadcaster take steps in the other directionGet Guardian Australia’s weekend culture and lifestyle emailIt’s been a momentous week for the arts in Australia: a nation electrified by creative work... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-06-16 15:00:05 UTC ]
For so long, it seemed that readers were only interested in the experiences of people like me if we were traumatised, not triumphant – and I internalised this as an indisputable factGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI can’t pinpoint exactly when I started imagining myself in the stories... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-03-18 19:00:19 UTC ]
Bad Behaviour author Rebecca Starford and the team behind a dramatisation of her memoir reflect on how they recreated her frightening account of her elite boarding schoolGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen Rebecca Starford was 14 she spent a year living in the bush as part of an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-02-14 14:00:16 UTC ]
Pulitzer finalist Sophie Gilbert sells a book about women and pop culture to Penguin, S&S crashes an inside account of the Manhattan DA’s investigation into the Trump Organization, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
Fiction writers Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Sequoia Nagamatsu join hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell live from the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri, where they talk about pop culture in the literary sphere, the blurring of the line between literary and popular fiction,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-04-28 08:56:36 UTC ]
Science fiction has often had an inspirational and positive relationship with space endeavors. But the new US Space Force is struggling with a pop culture public relations problem. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2021-02-19 13:20:06 UTC ]
An undead reading list for adults, from creature horror fiction to nonfiction on the history of zombies in pop culture. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-08-13 10:34:00 UTC ]
TV show also underscores the poet’s powerful intellect and wry sense of humor, which earlier portrayals too often ignored. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-10-31 14:15:59 UTC ]
Rowman & Littlefield Audio plans to release 35 audio titles this year and 50 in 2020 in subject areas that include history, self-help, business, and pop culture. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
A new adaptation of the graphic novel “Watchmen” is coming to HBO. The original changed superhero tales — and pop culture at large — forever. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-10-16 09:00:22 UTC ]