Saturday, July 10, 2021

How Serbian Dua Lipa Shut Down the Trolls and Conquered International Pop

How Dua Lipa Shut Down the Trolls and Conquered International Pop

 “THERE WAS JUST THIS PRESSURE…PEOPLE JUST TELLING ME THAT I WASN’T GOOD ENOUGH OR THAT I WASN’T DESERVING OF IT OR WHATEVER IT WAS…”


Stowe Boyd: "Our Idea Of Power Is Changing. Men Have Long Worshipped Power; The Power Of Arms, The Power Of..."





My review of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Between Two Millstones, Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994 is published today in the Los Angeles Review of Books.






Alasdair Beckett-King (previously) presents a seriously true crime story. Some of the details are a little distracting. In all honesty, you have to feel for the writers who must create pseudonyms for police procedurals that run for twenty years or more- it must be hard to come up with names that don't either repeat or sound completely ridiculous. Beckett-King revealed that his own alias is an anagram: "King Abelard Caketits."

When You Change Names To Protect The Innocent





When the Medicis reclaimed control of Florence in 1512, artists had two choices: flee — as Michelangelo did — or Flatter flat 



Voltaire is said to have consumed 72 cups a day; Balzac ate the grounds directly. Did coffee help cause the Enlightenment?... Coffee