One of Kurt Vonnegut’s key writing commandments was to make sure that on every page, every character wants something, even if it is just a glass of water aka voda …
Dragonflies swarm beachgoers at Rhode Island’s Misquamicut Beach WCBB. It’s an annual event.
Mick Herron profile
At The Guardian Alex Clark profiles the The Secret Hours-author, in Mick Herron: ‘Most people didn’t know I was writing – I was a secretive kind of writer’ as his first novel, Down Cemetery Road is now also being adapted for TV; see also the Apple TV press release.
What Orwell Would Have Thought About Cancel Culture
“Orwell would have been more disturbed by the mendacity of those claiming to have been canceled than he would have been by the decision of some media not to publish them.” - The Smart Set
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