Behind most every tech billionaire is a sci-fi novel they read as a teenager. For Bill Gates it was Stranger in a Strange Land, the 1960s epic detailing the culture clashes that arise when a Martian visits Earth. Google’s Sergey Brin has said it was Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, the cyberpunk classic about hackers and computer viruses set in an Orwellian Los Angeles. Jeff Bezos cites Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, which unreel in an utopian society of humanoids and artificial intelligences,...
Rose D’Amora The Nation speaks to Jessi Jezewska Stevens about her new short-story collection, which dramatizes late-capitalist living.
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After 15 years of staging annual literary festivals — and just weeks before its 2024 event was to open — Bookstock announced on Monday that it is closing down. The Woodstock festival scheduled for June 21 to 23 is canceled. Cofounder and board chair Peter Rousmaniere told Seven Days that disparate visions for the festival prompted some participating organizations to pull out. He declined to name them. "It was a decision on their own, which I respect," he said. More than two dozen local...
Out in West Texas, a pair of aspiring novelists and enterprising small-town newspaper owners, Barbara Brannon and Kay Ellington, were dismayed by the number of publications that were dropping book sections, cutting critics, and otherwise decimating literary coverage, especially in the Lone Star State. By the 2010s, “93 percent of the state’s newspapers offer no […]
It’s easy to get lost among the thousands of videos offering “can’t-fail garden tips.”
It’s easy to get lost among the thousands of videos offering “can’t-fail garden tips.”
One consistent aspect of President Joe Biden‘s time in the White House has been his tendency to exaggerate stories about his past. Biden’s tendency to exaggerate, which goes back decades, typically involves stories with an element of truth that get stretched with new and often hard-to-believe details. Biden sometimes gets called out via fact checks, […]
Nearly three decades after the release of “Pulp Fiction,” the stars of the iconic movie reunited to celebrate its milestone. Bruce Willis did not attend the event due to health issues, but his wife, Emma, and daughter Tallulah stepped out in his place.
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Russell Banks' latest book, American Spirits, was published posthumously a few months ago, and reviewers have been mostly positive about it. I recently got around to reading it and found the insights regarding rural folks, incluidng their attachment to place, quite compelling. This excerpt is from the first of the three stories, "Nowhere Man," which involves a man, Doug Lafleur, who, with his siblings, sold their interest in the land they inherited from their father (Guy Lafleur) in the rural...