What’s Up With The Gender Imbalance In Britain’s Comedy Writing Prize?

The Wodehouse prize is 18 years old, or just about as old as this millennium, and it’s been given to men 15 times. Marian Keyes, who’s sold 33 million comedic books, says she’s never been shortlisted and wonders what women have to do to get noticed by the mostly male judges (who insist, of course, they only pick the best – and who picked no one in 2018).

Public Political (But Not Partisan) Art Is Coming To A Billboard Near You

It’s an ambitious, 50-state campaign by a group called For Freedoms, a campaign that intends to pay artists, enlist museums, run Kickstarters and do a lot more before the midterm elections in November. One of the founders of For Freedoms said, “We are hoping to bring art to the center of public life in the lead-up to the midterms, which is where we think art should belong.”

Italian Authorities Say Caravaggio Stolen In 1969 May Have Been Hidden In Switzerland By The Mafia

Almost 50 years after a Caravaggio was stolen, “the new lead on the whereabouts of the 17th-century painting – a depiction of the newborn Christ on a bed of straw, painted in the chiaroscuro technique – came from a former mobster-turned-informant, who revealed to Italian investigators that it had once been held by Gaetano Badalamenti, a Sicilian ‘boss of bosses’ who was known as one of the ringleaders of an infamous heroin trafficking network in the US called the Pizza Operation.”

Edinburgh City Council Says Fringe Fest Must Pay Everyone A Living Wage

Not only do workers at all festivals need a living wage, but “Other requirements include that employees have appropriate rest breaks and that workers are not subjected to unpaid trial shifts. … This follows recent news that unions are to crack down on ‘exploitative’ unpaid work placements at the fringe and a survey in January in which a third of workers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe said they had worked without pay.”

So It Turns Out That Whole ‘Marshmallow Test’ About Delayed Gratification Was Actually About Which Kids Were Rich

Yes: The kids who could ignore the marshmallow and delay gratification were kids who knew that they would always be gratified in the end. What does this mean for the famous study? For one thing, “the capacity to hold out for a second marshmallow is shaped in large part by a child’s social and economic background — and, in turn, that that background, not the ability to delay gratification, is what’s behind kids’ long-term success.”

What It Means For A Writer To Attain Global Fame

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “called Americanah her ‘fuck-you book,’ by which she meant she no longer felt that she must be a dutiful literary daughter responsible for her country’s history: she would write what she felt like. Her first two novels had been written in the voices of characters who were younger and more naïve than she; the protagonist of Americanah, a young woman named Ifemelu, would be her equal.”

‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Is Turning 15, But What Has It Done For – Or To – Dance In America?

Many of the winners have gone on to good careers, but even more than dancers, the show has changed the discussion for choreographers. “‘Unless you were in the dance world, you didn’t even know the word ‘choreography,’’ said Mia Michaels, a three-time Emmy winner for her work on the show. ‘Choreographers became household names, which was incredible for our industry.'”

What Do You Do When Sarah Jessica Parker, ‘Sex And The City’ Star, Wants To Publish Your Novel?

Duh, you say yes. Fatima Farheen Mirza had just landed in New York when the actor called to say she wanted Mirza to have the first novel with Parker’s new imprint at Hogarth. “I was stunned during our conversation, because she spoke so thoughtfully about the very scenes that meant the most to me in the book and I felt so comforted that she understood what those scenes meant to the characters, to me.”

One Of The Biggest Challenges Of Being An ‘Emerging Artist’ Is Age (Or Maybe Ageism)

Once you hit 25, or maybe 30, forget all of that “emerging artist support,” theatre folks. “I felt a pressure, perhaps even an expectation, to hit some sort of invisible jackpot. Did I only have a few short years to prove my worth and work ethic, to demonstrate some outstanding talent that would surpass my age so that I would be remembered before I would fall dramatically short of opportunities and professional support?”