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Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 Jess Zimmerman’s previous work for The Toast can be found here. Late last month, British actress Susan Sheridan died of cancer at the age of 68. Sheridan was an accomplished voice artist, but for me (and, it seems, for a lot of news writers), her defining work was in the original Hitchhiker’s…
Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Start Article Post Content Former “True Blood” showrunner Mark Hudis and director Barry Sonnenfeld have signed on to steer Netflix’s adaptation of the Lemony Snicket “A Series of Unfortunate Events” fantasy book series. Hudis will serve as showrunner and exec producer of the series, while Sonnenfeld will direct and exec produce….
On July 11, 2000, in one of the more unlikely moments in the history of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Orrin Hatch handed the microphone to Metallica’s drummer, Lars Ulrich, to hear his thoughts on art in the age of digital reproduction. Ulrich’s primary concern was a new online service called Napster, which had debuted…
Some freshmen students at Duke University are protesting the assignment of Fun Home, claiming reading it would violate their Christian beliefs. Fun Home is an award-winning, New York Times best-selling graphic novel and memoir that was adapted for the theatre and recently won five Tonys, including the coveted Tony Award for Best Musical. The book and the Broadway…
As Jonathan Franzen’s new book, Purity, gets closer to release, talk about the author has picked up speed. One question that keeps coming up repeatedly is:Is Jonathan Franzen sexist? Oh, if only there were a cut and dried answer to this. Franzen is a controversial figure in contemporary literature, beloved by many critics and hated by many readers….
In a setup that would not look out of place in fiction, Jonathan Franzen, the bestselling American novelist, has said he once considered adopting an Iraqi war orphan to help him understand young people better, but was persuaded against it by his editor. Franzen said he was in his late 40s at the time with…
I know, right? Will your friends agree? Share this Link This “Harry Potter” Theory About Dumbledore’s Role In “Deathly Hallows” Is Blowing Minds http://www.buzzfeed.com/alannabennett/harry-pot… A nice reminder that Harry Potter will be messing with our brains for the rest of our lives. This “Harry Potter” Theory About Dumbledore’s Role In “Deathly Hallows” Is Blowing Minds.
Photo Alan Cheuse at home in Washington in 2001. Credit David Scull Alan Cheuse, a late-blooming author who published his first short story just before his 40th birthday and went on to write two dozen books, but who became even better known as a longtime book critic for NPR, died on Friday in San Jose,…
Downtrodden.Photo by Evgeny Bakharev Jacky Colliss Harvey’s Red: A History of the Redhead is framed as a blend of art history and pop sociology, but it is much more than that. It is a manifesto—and a dangerous one. “People still express biases against red hair in language and in attitudes of unthinking mistrust that they…
But Did You Read the Book? Cara Delevingne, Press Junketry, and Me Earlier this week, an interview with the actor Cara Delevingne made the rounds online. In it, the anchors of “Good Day Sacramento” refer to her as “Carla” and then ask her whether she read the novel Paper Towns. (She stars in the film…