Many lives are radically different right now. But birthdays, anniversaries, and public holidays come and go as before. The pink supermoon would have appeared whether we’d watched it from our windows or outdoors among a crowd of strangers. This week, Earth Day, Shakespeare’s birthday, and World Book Night all came as expected, and Ramadan begins this weekend: it’s how we celebrate them that has changed.There are blessings to this, of course. For birthdays, we now have raucous Zoom chats where you don’t have to worry about getting a round in for your friend’s friend whom you barely know. Those trying to reduce, reuse and recycle for Earth Day will have found that the problems of counteracting traffic congestion, pollution and disposable coffee cups has become briefly easier – and of course goats and sheep are happily, freely roaming some of England’s rural towns. World Book Night has been celebrated with at-home pyjama parties, online reading marathons, and people recreating famous book covers with items found around the house.As these have shown, the arts continues to adapt across the world. While your own immediate surroundings may start to feel a little confining, that sense of freedom can still be found in stories that take you to another place, or in a tale told by someone to whom the routines of your daily life seem exotic or even bizarre. This week, Literature on Lockdown has gathered stories, craft projects, podcasts, and online events that will keep you in... Continue reading at 'British Council global'
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From a library worker strike to the upcoming 'SALEM'S LOT adaptation, catch up on all the news relevant to libraries this week. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Apple is gearing up to launch the iPhone 16 on September 9th, so we've brought on Bloomberg's Mark Gurman to chat about his scoops around Apple's upcoming hardware. We should expect some notable additions, like a dedicated camera button, as well as slightly larger screens on the Pro models.... Continue reading at Engadget
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The August 29 complaint over H.B. 1069 argues that the statute is vague and overbroad, and that it has led to the improper removal of hundreds of books from school and classroom libraries in the state. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Threshing Pain and Passion through Poetry: Gjekë Marinaj’s Teach Me How to Whisper, by James Manteith Book Reviews [email protected] Wed, 08/28/2024 - 14:10 Gjekë Marinaj’s Teach Me How to Whisper: Horses and Other Poems, co-translated by the... Continue reading at World Literature Today
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Greenville County Library System will remove all trans books from their young adult sections and restrict access to those under 17. Continue reading at Book Riot
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'Deep Cuts,' written by Kyle Higgins and Joe Clark and featuring a diverse group of artists, is a richly imagined and illustrated anthology that uses fictional vignettes to recreate the history of Jazz. An 11-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Since it started offering subscribers access to mobile games in 2021, Netflix has built up one of the best gaming libraries around. With a balanced mix of titles built for the service and exclusive rights to the mobile versions of several popular indies (and a few blockbusters), Netflix has... Continue reading at Engadget
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Why libraries are often deliberate targets during war: “For book lovers, there is something profoundly, almost viscerally disturbing about a library on fire.” | Lit Hub Libraries Why there might still be hope for the Earth’s oceans: “A worse version of today’s ocean is not inevitable, but... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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The first novel in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet was just voted the best book of the 21st century. We like it too. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Windows, Microsoft, and third-party software makers supply numerous useful tools for the command line — but these are not always easy to use. Graphical user interfaces (GUI), on the other hand, usually offer a more intuitive experience. Instead of developing a program from scratch,... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2024-08-23 10:30:00 UTC ]
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Secret Level is a gaming-inspired anthology series coming to Prime Video on December 15. The upcoming Amazon title is from the same team behind Netflix's Love, Death and Robots. From the teaser released during Gamescom, this new project will be continuing the Blur Studio specialty for creating... Continue reading at Engadget
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Book authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson are accusing Anthropic of copyright infringement. A group of authors is suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, alleging it committed “large-scale theft” in training its popular chatbot Claude on pirated copies of... Continue reading at Fast Company
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Why libraries are often deliberate targets during war: “For book lovers, there is something profoundly, almost viscerally disturbing about a library on fire.” | Lit Hub Libraries “On paper, Enoch’s travels don’t sound that dissimilar to reported nonhuman encounters.” Luis Elizondo on beings from... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Sarajevo, 1992. My mother’s uncle, Dobrivoje Beljkašić, or Dobri for short, was 68 when the siege of his hometown began. He was a landscape painter renowned for painting Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Ottoman bridges. His magnificent studio was above the National Library in the old City Hall in... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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It’s been a rough year for the literary festival. Sparked by a campaign from Fossil Free Books (FFB), nine festivals that previously relied on support from the Baillie Gifford Foundation dropped or lost that company’s sponsorship after the firm failed to divest from fossil fuel companies and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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After publishing my first novel Catalina I spiraled into strange despair. Writing, for me, had always been about connection, yet I felt both disconnected from what I’d written and by how it was being received. Had I written a noir? I hadn’t set out to. Was my protagonist unlikeable? I liked... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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What is weeding in libraries and when is it a disguise for banning books? That, plus this week's book censorship news roundup. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-08-16 12:30:00 UTC ]
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A partnership between the Digital Public Library of America and the Independent Publishers Group is offering an e-book ownership option from a wide range of indie publishers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Paramount is laying off 15 percent of its US workforce, according to reporting by Deadline. This follows a lean second quarter earnings report in which total revenue fell short from an expected $7.21 billion to $6.81 billion. The layoffs will impact around 3,000 people. “The industry continues... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-08-13 15:31:20 UTC ]
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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. Hum by Helen Phillips Robots have become a regular fixture of the workforce, and humans are losing their jobs to AI. Climate change is wreaking havoc on the planet. It’s getting harder and harder for the average person to... Continue reading at Engadget
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