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movie & tv
10 Movies Based on Pulitzer Winners That Are as Good as the Book
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of seven American Pulitzer prizes awarded annually. It recognizes the best fiction literature by an American...
movieweb.com
- 30+ days ago
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movie & tv
Hazelight's Split Fiction Could Go From Game to Film
Hollywood's reportedly looking at bringing the recently released (and popular) Split Fiction to the silver screen. Less than a month after its launch,...
gizmodo.com
- 30+ days ago
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gaming
Split Fiction Review
Paperback fighters. After winning the Game of the Year gong for It Takes Two at the The Game Awards 2021 I’m certain that developer Hazelight...
ign.com
- 30+ days ago
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writing / books
10 Award-Winning Nonfiction Books of 2024
All the winners of the nonfiction book prizes we cover at Five Books have now been announced. These include history, politics, business, science,...
fivebooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Center for Fiction Staff Win Union Recognition
Employees at the Center for Fiction have won voluntary union recognition from Brooklyn-based nonprofit bookstore and literary hub and will begin...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Vintage travel guide accidentally becomes masterpiece of tourist horror fiction
Is Collins' Pocket Interpreters: France (1937 edition) the most pessimistic phrasebook ever published? What was meant as a practical tool for British...
boingboing.net
- 30+ days ago
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books
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Shortly after it begins, Rebecca Romney’s first solo work of nonfiction “becomes something of a mystery novel,” said Charlotte Gordon in The Washington...
theweek.com
- 30+ days ago
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technology
The real reason big tech broke the promise of humanoid robots
Will we ever see a future that matches science-fiction, filled with mass-produced humanoid robots? It's unlikely. Recent advances in deep learning,...
sciencefocus.com
- 30+ days ago
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how-to
Fiction: ‘Playworld’ by Adam Ross
A child actor comes of age in 1980s Manhattan in Adam Ross’s novel. “Most child actors aren’t taught how to act,” Ron Howard...
wsj.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Celebrate We Need Diverse Books Day with these 6 amazing fantasy and science fiction books
Today is the inaugural We Need Diverse Books Day, and the nonprofit's spokeswoman Caroline Richmond has six great book recommendations to mark the...
winteriscoming.net
- 30+ days ago
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sports
Fact or Fiction: Kevin Durant to the Celtics just makes sense
yahoo.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Margaret Atwood on Mavis Gallant’s “Orphans’ Progress”
Gallant observed with the “cold eye” that Yeats recommended for writers, even when drawing on her own life in fiction. New Takes on the classics....
newyorker.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York time s. We recommend a bounty of good fiction this week, with a collection by...
- 30+ days ago
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books
So you want to write Star Trek fanfiction: 3 tips for beginners
Star Trek fanfiction is nothing new. Since the original series began airing, aspiring and often talented writers of all ages began contributing their...
redshirtsalwaysdie.com
- 19 days ago
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celebrity
Don't Crucify Me, But I Think It's Good That Ryan Murphy Humanizes the Subjects of His True-Crime Shows
We all love monsters. From Dracula and King Kong to the Wolfman and Freddy Krueger, our affection for these fictionalized beasts has been satisfied...
movieweb.com
- 30+ days ago
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architecture
Philadelphia’s Historical Commission decides the Roundhouse is not worthy of preservation
Mayor Parker's administration appointees voted against preserving the former police headquarters, which is seen as a unique example of modernist...
inquirer.com
- 30+ days ago
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movie & tv
'A Thousand Blows': Who were the Forty Elephants gang and their thief 'queen' Mary Carr?
A little bit of Victorian London history in Steven Knight's new Disney+/Hulu show. In Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight's Hulu/Disney+ show, A Thousand...
mashable.com
- 30+ days ago
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writing
Kiss these books—they’re Irish!
Irish fiction to enjoy on Saint Patrick's Day and all year long, featuring picks by Sally Rooney, John Banville, Vanessa Kelly and more....
bookpage.com
- 30+ days ago
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technology
Humanoid robots: Stepping out of science fiction, into the real world
For many decades, science fiction films and books have described and shown us a variety of humanoid robots that range from ones that look clearly...
roboticsandautomationnews.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
6 Creepy Sci-Fi Books to Make Your Skin Crawl
Science fiction, like horror, is an excellent venue for capturing an era’s fears. Especially now, when technological process happens at a pace beyond...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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nature
The early days of peer review: five insights from historical reports
A crop of referee reports from the Royal Society’s archive reveal discussions about cutting printing costs, reviewer holidays and even editing images....
nature.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Review: When ’Minnesota’s Most Notorious Gangster' bootlegged his way to the (seedy) top
Local nonfiction: A rich biography of the man behind some of the state’s most notorious criminal enterprises. The subject of Ron de Beaulieu’s...
startribune.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The best new science fiction books of 2024
It has been a good year for science fiction, with a novel set on the International Space Station winning the 2024 Booker prize. Orbital is a...
newscientist.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Notable Nonfiction Books of Fall 2024, recommended by Sophie Roell
From the memoir of the brave politician who opposed Putin, to how the culture of ancient and early medieval India transformed the world, from a...
fivebooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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learning
Explore the Newly-Launched Public Domain Image Archive with 10,000+ Free Historical Images
We’ve often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various searchable copyright-free image databases that have...
openculture.com
- 30+ days ago
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