Be careful who you trust. Salt and Sugar look the same.
Dave Bautista roasts Donald Trump's masculinity and calls him a "whiny little b*tch."
“Fellas, we gotta talk. A lot of men seem to think that Donald Trump is some kind of tough guy. He’s not. I mean, look at him, he wears more makeup than Dolly Parton.He whines like a baby. The guy is afraid of birds. Donald Trump had his daddy pay a doctor to say his little feet hurt so he could dodge the draft. Look at that gut. It’s like a garbage bag full of buttermilk... you know that little dance he does? He looks like he’s jacking off a pair of giraffes. He's moody. He pouts. He throws tantrums. He acts like a five year old behind the wheels of a truck. This November, let's stop kidding ourselves."
- variety.com/2024/film/news
New director Milan Babík acknowledges that, like American presidential libraries, the Václav Havel Library isn't a 'typical library' -- "We are civil society actors. We certainly do more than ordinary libraries do" --, and at Radio Prague International Ian Willoughby has a Q & A with him, Milan Babík: Heading Havel Library after 30 years in US.
At The Guardian Alex Clark profile the novelist, in ‘I no longer have to save the world’: Novelist Richard Powers on fiction and the climate crisis.
At the Irish Examiner Marjorie Brennan has a Q & A with him, in: Books are my business: Writer and translator Frank Wynne.
Among his responses:
KulturPass numbers
Germany is one of those European countries that provides money -- €100, in their case -- to youths once they turn eighteen which they can spend on anything cultural, the KulturPass, and at Börsenblatt they have the latest numbers -- with books being, by a considerable margin, still the most popular thing (and about half of the total) users cash in on
At ABC News Gerald Murnane speaks about life, writing ahead of Nobel Prize for Literature announcement.
As they note:
Václav Havel Library
New director Milan Babík acknowledges that, like American presidential libraries, the Václav Havel Library isn't a 'typical library' -- "We are civil society actors. We certainly do more than ordinary libraries do" --, and at Radio Prague International Ian Willoughby has a Q & A with him, Milan Babík: Heading Havel Library after 30 years in US.
Ellis Peters, translator
I often complain about how few Anglophone authors translate, but I was not aware that Edith Pargeter -- who wrote mysteries as 'Ellis Peters' -- translated from the Czech; at Radio Prague International Danny Bate now has a Q & A with Suzanne Bray 'about the Czechoslovak side to this remarkable writer', in The life of Edith Pargeter (alias Ellis Peters): Murder-mystery novelist and self-taught Czech translator.
Richard Powers profile
At The Guardian Alex Clark profile the novelist, in ‘I no longer have to save the world’: Novelist Richard Powers on fiction and the climate crisis.
Is It Important To Distill One’s Philosophy To A “Saying”?
When I think of sayings, I think first of the early Greek philosophers—the so-called pre-Socratics—whose ideas, if they wrote them down at all, survive as elusive fragments of text. - The Point
Frank Wynne Q & A
At the Irish Examiner Marjorie Brennan has a Q & A with him, in: Books are my business: Writer and translator Frank Wynne.
Among his responses:
What do you like most about what you do ?
If I am a writer, there are some books I can write, if I am a translator I can be 40, 60 completely different writers and write novels that I could never have imagined.
KulturPass numbers
Germany is one of those European countries that provides money -- €100, in their case -- to youths once they turn eighteen which they can spend on anything cultural, the KulturPass, and at Börsenblatt they have the latest numbers -- with books being, by a considerable margin, still the most popular thing (and about half of the total) users cash in on
Profile: Gerald Murnane
At ABC News Gerald Murnane speaks about life, writing ahead of Nobel Prize for Literature announcement.
As they note:
He prefers not to travel outside Victoria. He has never been on a plane, never voluntarily been into the ocean, has rarely taken holidays and has never listened to the radio or watched television for more than 20 minutes.Four of his works are under review at the complete review, including Barley Patch and A Season on Earth.
But he likes maps and sits a globe near his desk where he writes.
Choreographer Hofesh Schechter On Why Audiences Have Such Powerful Reactions To His Work
"I think the simple answer is because the work is about people. It’s not about dance. Dance and music are tools (to get to) something that matters much more, which is human experience. In the end we’re having a visceral experience for an-hour-and-a-half and feeling like we went through something.” - The Guardian