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Grand Dame Guignol
Sometimes over the top, other times way over the top, Grand Dame Guignol was grisly, memorable entertainment buoyed by the sort of movie stars they no longer make: actresses whose talent, intensity, and willingness to take risks with their images made the wildly melodramatic seem frighteningly real.
6 min |
Summer #164, 2020
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EDITH MAXWELL aka MADDIE DAY
Cozies certainly provide solace from many of the dark edges of the actual world,” says Edith Maxwell.
7 min |
Summer #164, 2020
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AN OATH AND A TERRORIST
It was the late 2000s and the United States government was engaged in a global hunt for Osama bin Laden.
2 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
When Anime Becomes a Refuge For Patriotism
In addition to entertainment, China’s Bilibili offers nationalism to its young audience
5 min |
May 04, 2020
Men's Journal
The Fast and the Curious
Pro wrestling, raunchy comedy, children’s books, action flicks.... There’s not much that John Cena won’t try. And at age 43, he’s just getting started.
10+ min |
May - June 2020
World Literature Today
The Old Man Who Lives Two Floors Below
Down the first twist of stairs and Josie hears she is not alone, like hearing a tree in the wind beyond her bedroom window. The old man: splay-legged before his door like a failing easel, he moves slow as death.
4 min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
Our Nations, Ourselves
A Conversation with Robin Hemley
9 min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
Translating History
A Conversation with Isabel Fargo Cole
10+ min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
The Pregnant Woman from Zamboanga
In this story by an indigenous writer from the southern Philippines, a crime continues to haunt a local’s thoughts.
7 min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
CONVERSATIONS ON THE FUTURE OF TRANSLATION
Good Storytelling Still Trending - An Interview with Antonia Lloyd-Jones
8 min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
Cheating / Death
A girl learns her first lessons about cheating and death at her grandparents’ house, playing cards and Scrabble and listening to them read from the obituaries in the Detroit Jewish News.
10+ min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
Tokyo's Mukōjima Hyakkaen Garden
NEAR THE HEART of old Tokyo, surrounded by the largest metro area in the world, the Mukōjima-Hyakkaen Garden provides a respite from the bustle of the city with a traditional and lush corner of peace and quiet. For more than two centuries, the garden has been a haven for the city’s writers and artists as well as anyone who desires a temporary escape from urban life into the subtle tranquility of nature.
2 min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
Race, History, and the Body
Humanity on Display
7 min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
Of Comics and Bipolar Disorder - A Conversation with Rachel Lindsay
Rachel Lindsay is a cartoonist based in Vermont and the author of a graphic memoir, RX, that was published in 2018 by Grand Central Publishing. RX explores the powerful interplay of word and image that resists biomedical prescriptivism and espouses the political potential of sharing subjective experiences of living with bipolar disorder through comics. Her comic strip “Rachel Lives Here Now” appears weekly in Seven Days, an alternative newspaper in Vermont. In our conversation with Lindsay, we discuss the pertinent issues surrounding mental health and the role of graphic memoirs in reclaiming the identity of the patient in a hierarchical biomedical system, specifically in the context of her recent memoir, RX.
10+ min |
Spring 2020
World Literature Today
LIT TRENDS - 3 Online Book Clubs with a Global Perspective
ONE OF LIFE’S GREAT pleasures is sharing a favorite book with a community of bright, engaging friends, wine in hand and the fireplace crackling. In a perfect world, the host of your local book club is charming, the introverts are cozy and the extroverts gregarious, the conversation is brilliant and never lags, and the serving board groans under the weight of everyone’s best-loved dishes.
2 min |
Spring 2020
AppleMagazine
‘Wonder Woman 1984,' ‘In The Heights' Postponed Due To Virus
Warner Bros. delayed the summer release of “Wonder Woman 1984” and removed the adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” from its schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic.
2 min |
March 27, 2020
Inc.
Chart Busters
Hal Leonard still making sheet music and beating the digital band.
2 min |
March - April 2020
Soap Opera Digest
Hot Plots Preview!
What will Happen
3 min |
March 16, 2020
Reason magazine
No Adults in the Room: From Election to The Politician
The recent release of Ryan Murphy’s series The Politician on Netflix has inspired endless comparisons to Alexander Payne’s 1999 film Election.
8 min |
February 2020
OffBeat Magazine
Indie Rock's 10-Year Anniversary
New Orleans rock artists have always been a part of the city’s music scene.
4 min |
March 2020
OffBeat Magazine
THE ICEMEN COMETH
THE ICEMAN SPECIAL MAKES MUSICAL MAGIC WITH A CROSS-GENERATIONAL COLLABORATION AND FAMILY TIES
10+ min |
March 2020
OffBeat Magazine
Christone ‘‘Kingfish'' Ingram talks back
A native of Clarksdale, Mississippi, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram comes from the land of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker and Skip James. Just turned 21, this young man with the blues respects his music’s past even as he shapes its future.
2 min |
March 2020
OffBeat Magazine
Mr. Z
Matthew Zarba is Upbeat Academy’s unflappable rap principal.
4 min |
March 2020
The Good Life
When Hollywood Came East Of The Mountains
The phone rang, it was my son James. “Hey Dad, I just had a call from the Apple Commission, there are some movie guys who are looking for good locations to shoot a film up here. Is it okay with you if we let them visit the Keystone (our family orchard in Entiat) and take some pictures?”
5 min |
February 2020
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PHILLIP MARGOLIN
If asked to account for his career(s) in crime, Phillip Margolin would probably offer evidence that it was inevitable. “I have been a voracious reader starting in elementary school and I tore through Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason novels and the Ellery Queen mysteries,” he says. “By the seventh grade, I had decided that the only thing I wanted to do was try murder cases.”
7 min |
Spring #163, 2020
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ERICA SPINDLER
Inspiration comes in mysterious ways. New Orleans novelist Erica Spindler—the New York Times bestselling author of 30 titles, including January’s The Look-Alike—can pinpoint the exact moment a lifechanging creative epiphany literally fell into her hands.
7 min |
Spring #163, 2020
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Small Press
Reviewing the Independents
7 min |
Spring #163, 2020
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DEX PARIOS
Will She or Won’t She? Only Her Stumptown Producers Know for Sure
7 min |
Spring #163, 2020
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NICK PETRIE THE WILD ONE
The idea that led Nick Petrie to create his character Peter Ash, a decorated Marine combat veteran whose PTSD makes him so claustrophobic that he is most comfortable outdoors, came in a basement.
10+ min |
Spring #163, 2020
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CRIME AUTHORS CAUGHT ON CAMERA
Ready for a Close-Up
6 min |