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Porn addicts, vicars, madmen and murderers: Sarah Ogilvie on the Oxford English Dictionary’s unlikely writers
In a 70-year crowdsourcing project, a motley global public sent in the words and definitions that would form the first OED. Ogilvie reveals the shocking stories behind the book’s birth
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Swapping books for audiobooks has reignited my love of literature
The prospect of reading a book filled me with anxiety and shame. But an ADHD diagnosis changed everything, says writer and presenter Verity Babbs
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PGA Tour lands $3B deal, launches for-profit org
The PGA Tour has reached a deal with Strategic Sports Group, a consortium of billionaire sports team owners, to infuse up to $3 billion into a new for-profit entity, PGA Tour Enterprises, that was officially launched Wednesday.
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Scholastic Book Fair Will Discontinue Separate Collection Of Race And Gender Books
The publisher had said it would segregate books with themes on race and gender at school fairs in order to navigate a rash of bans across the country.
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28 years ago, a book club began reading one novel. It’s finally reached the end
Filmmaker Gerry Fialka has convened a book group to read James Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake,’ a book famously tough to grasp.
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Amazon's Wheel of Time Has a Serious Dragon Reborn Problem
Amazon's Wheel of Time has been quite the wild ride, but the show has a major problem with the Dragon Reborn.
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National Memoir Writing Month - November 2023
November is National Memoir Writing Month. It's the perfect time to start writing your autobiography. It's not clear to me how November came to be National Memoir Writing Month. I suspect that National Memoir Writing Month was created by somebody who doesn’t like writing fiction.
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‘Last of Us’ Season 2 Casts ‘Beef’ Star Young Mazino as Jesse
"The Last of Us" Season 2 is continuing to build out its cast. Young Mazino is now the latest actor to join the hit HBO series, Variety has learned.
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Why Isn’t Frasier Drinking at Cheers in the New Revival? The EPs Explain
Frasier is back in Boston in the new Paramount+ revival, but he has yet to set foot in the bar where everybody knows your name. Thursday’s premiere saw Frasier Crane return to his old stompin…
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John Grisham, George R.R. Martin Among 17 Authors Suing OpenAI
Authors Jodi Picoult and Jonathan Franzen are also part of the suit, which accuses OpenAI of copyright infringement and “systematic theft on a mass scale."
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Punk Sinatra (An A.I. mockumentary)
The forgotten punk pioneer
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Column: The writers' strike was the first workplace battle between humans and AI. The humans won
At a moment when the prospect of executives and managers using software automation to undermine work in professions everywhere loomed large, the WGA strike took on major symbolic weight.
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John Oliver, Back From Strike, Scolds Hollywood Studios For Not Offering Writers a Fair Deal on ‘Day F—king One’
John Oliver in his first episode since April 30 applauded the Writers’ Guild of America and scolded Hollywood’s business daddies for taking so long to offer writers a fair deal. After a…
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Is The Gilded Age's Opera War Based on a True Story?
The new season of the hit series details a battle between two high-society music venues, but how much of it is real?
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The Story Behind The Story: How Ghostwriters Shape Public Discourse
Politicians, celebrities, business leaders and influencers from all walks of life increasingly turn to professional writers—ghostwriters—for the literary assistance they need to craft their messages, stories, speeches and online content in a compelling way.
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It Looks Like a Reboot of 'The Office' Is On the Way
Even though every sitcom since 'The Office' been a reboot of 'The Office.'
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NHL players allowed to represent social causes with stick tape
The NHL had had banned the use of Pride tape on the ice this season as part of a decision made by the board of governors in June,
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Most Americans oppose including trans athletes in sports, poll finds
Nearly 70% of U.S. adults say transgender athletes should be allowed to compete only on sports teams that correspond with the sexes they were assigned at birth, Gallup found.
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What’s at Stake in the Hollywood Writers’ Strike
Streaming has given the studios one more way to exploit writers—and the writers are pushing back.
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Craft your scary story with these 4 writing tips from Bryant’s Meher Manda
Whether it’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula or Stephen King’s The Shining, horror stories have spellbound readers since Greek and Roman times...