If you look at the early days of science fiction with the author of Frankenstein, and then turn to recent movies Black Panther, Annihilation, and A Wrinkle in Time, you get pretty serious acknowledgement that women are an integral part of the genre. The films “dispute a mainstream perception of science fiction as a masculine genre, using feminine costumes and environments to build the strong-willed characters. Nothing will stop these women from overcoming the perilous obstacles ahead of them.”
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After Being Accused Of Harassment By Multiple Women, Sherman Alexie Declines Literary Honor
The American Library Association had given him the Carnegie Medal and a $5,000 prize for nonfiction for his most recent book, and they had intended to hand out the prize in June. He declined this week, but the ALA isn’t going back to the drawing board – they simply won’t give the medal this year.
When Your Cousin Is A Playwright And Suddenly, A Whole Trilogy Of Plays Is Out There About A Mirror You
At the center of Quiara Alegría Huedes’ Elliot trilogy of plays – Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue; Water by the Spoonful; and The Happiest Song Plays Last – is the former soldier. But Elliot isn’t someone the playwright made up out of whole cloth. Instead, he’s based on her cousin, whom she calls her muse. Sure, she changed some details, but “the fictional Elliot’s life is close enough to this young man’s that he can confidently be regarded as the Ur-Elliot, the original model, the irreducible essence of Elliot-ness from whom all other Elliots on various stages have sprung.”
Taking Museums To Outer – Or Inner – Space
Virtual reality museums are almost too real – and new tools to make the art look 3D, plus some collectors eager to share their own work with people at a great remove, mean that anyone with a smartphone and a headset can have a pretty strong encounter the art. Also: “You never have to think about security, insurance or transport fees or any of that. No plumbing or building codes.”
Where Are All The Dancing Boys? Instagram, Of Course
One of the boys – and we’re talking children, not young men – has 140,000 followers on Instagram, and another teaches dance moves to his friends at recess. So don’t think boys aren’t into dance; they are – especially online.
The Top Nominees For Best Actress All Avoided Ryan Seacrest, And Here’s What Others Had To Say About MeToo
All five Best Actress nominees, and many other actors, skipped interviews with E!’s Ryan Seacrest, and The New York Times just straight-up asked other actors to talk about #MeToo. Some of them were ready, and some, well, were not.
Boston Symphony Orchestra Says Sexual Harassment Claims Against Charles Dutoit Are Credible
Dutoit was a guest conductor for the BSO, and an independent investigator found that he harassed four women in the 1980s and 1990s.
An Author Used The Money From A Literary Prize To Set Up Another Literary Prize – For Translation
Daniel Hahn, who won the International Dublin literary award, decided it was past time to reward translator teams for their work. “Literary translation is a difficult profession to break into. Plenty of people want to do it, but in the insular English-speaking world, there’s regrettably little work to go around, and it’s easier for publishers to entrust their books to already-known translators who are seen as less of a risk. But there are many benefits to widening our pool of working translators, not least because new translators often lead us to meet new writers.”
Great Design, Norman Foster – Three People Have Been Hurt Walking Into Glass At Apple’s HQ
Actually, many more people have walked into the glass, but three people, in the first month of operation, have been hurt enough to call emergency services. “The glass has been specially treated to achieve an exact level of transparency and whiteness. The doorways reportedly have perfectly flat thresholds because ‘if engineers had to adjust their gait when entering the building, they risked distraction from their work’, according to a construction manager.”
Rousseau – That Famous Enlightenment Thinker – Advocated Book Burning
Whew, Jean-Jacques, WYD? “Rousseau did not pull any punches: according to him, far from contributing to the purification of morals, the sciences and the arts had had the opposite effect. The progress brought about by the restoration of letters in the Renaissance had only been superficial, exclusively affecting appearances; in reality, letters provoke the degeneration of morals, today just as in Antiquity.”