What Amazon’s Big Emmy Wins Mean For The Future Of Streaming

What Amazon’s Big Emmy Wins Mean For The Future Of Streaming

With an avalanche of streaming platforms on their way to compete with Amazon as well as Netflix, what can Amazon’s very successful Emmys Sunday tell us about the future of the streaming wars? Mostly that the era of deep-pocket campaigning has only just begun. – Vanity Fair

       An interesting sounding panel at Columbia University in New York tomorrow at 16:00, on: Bringing the Literatures of East Central Europe to English-speaking Readers. 
       I'd go, if I were in the neighborhood ..... 

The usual suspects on another planet remain the usual suspects.

… is their otherness:  S/F Reviews and Marginalia: Strangeness that moves us more than fear

… Episode 337 – Amor Towles – The Virtual Memories Show.
“In the back of my mind I knew that if I didn’t write a book that I felt proud of by the time I was 50, I’d probably end up bitter in my old age.”

Cold River eBook: Jozef Imrich: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store

[NEW re-edited, new material August 2003] Cold River: a survivor's story is about man's desire for freedom 

Why We Can’t Agree On What’s True to Anymore

Public life has become like a play whose audience is unwilling to suspend disbelief. Any utterance by a public figure can be unpicked in search of its ulterior motive. As cynicism grows, even judges, the supposedly neutral upholders of the law, are publicly accused of personal bias. Once doubt descends on public life, people become increasingly dependent on their own experiences and their own beliefs about how the world really works. – The Guardian