Well, audiobook technology now has you covered. Audible now offers binge-romance listeners “the option to jump to certain places in select audiobooks based on 10 categories.” Ahem.
Tag: 11.04.17
A ‘Bionic Ballerina’ Trying To Change The Discussion Around Dance And Disability
This dancer “formed the Fredericksburg dance group Company 360 eight months ago between operations, lung infections and doctor visits. … Dance takes her to another place, beyond the aches and pains and away from a body that causes so much grief.”
Hamilton, But For Bond Traders, And With A Famous Former U.S. Attorney In The Audience
Junk playwright Ayad Akhtar and Preet Bharara “met briefly in the lobby before the play started, with Mr. Akhtar telling Mr. Bharara: ‘You are such a hero to me, not just because our shared background,’ referring to their South Asian heritage, ‘but also because of all you have done for this country.'”
The History Of Reading In Bed May Be Ending
“Sounds a lot, but it would turn out to be a brief history. Universal literacy isn’t that old. Nor is the luxury of sleeping alone. Couldn’t have been much fun when there were five of you on a mattress, one guffawing over Smollett while another was calling hysterically for Heathcliff and the candle was going out.” And the other bookend would be another gift of modernity: television, and streaming.
The Executive Producer (And Writer, Director, Star) Persisted
How many shows follow the adventures of a single working-class mother doing several jobs to make ends meet for her and her toddler? Not that many. Well, none … until now, with Frankie Shaw’s new dramedy SMILF. “At a time when there’s a generation of young storytellers offering fresh perspectives on the angst of coming into your own as a young adult, with her dark comedy Shaw adds motherhood — with all its complexities and joys — to the mix.”
Who Should Be Allowed To Touch A Screenwriter’s Work?
The playwright – and screenwriter – David Hare explains the difference between writing for stage and screen. “All time spent considering your play is well spent, regardless of outcome. One day you write nothing, the next you write eight pages. It’s not in your hands. … Life is different when writing for the screen. For every hour you spend writing a screenplay, you spend 10 hours defending it.”
Why A ‘Colorblind’ Suburb In The 1990s Might Be The Best Place To Set A Novel About Race
Celeste Ng, author of the wildly bestselling novel Little Fires Everywhere, says that most people in the U.S. now understand race differently than they did in the 1990s, which makes that decade a great setting for her book. “The decade was, in general, one of optimism; it was ‘placid … a little self-satisfied.'”
Kevin Spacey Suspended From ‘House Of Cards’ During Ongoing Investigation
As information continues to emerge, and after Netflix suspended its relationship with the studio while Spacey was involved in the program, “the studio behind the hit television series House of Cards has suspended Kevin Spacey while it investigates what it called ‘serious allegations’ concerning the actor’s behavior on set.”