A third of the board of The Weinstein Company resigned before he was fired, and his lawyer stepped down as well.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Snarky Profiles And Twitter Accounts Created To Mock Rupi Kaur’s Poetry Have Done Exactly Nothing To Her Popularity
She’s too girly, she publishes on Instagram, her followers are all young women … well, literary establishment, perhaps you need to take a nicer photo of your objections, or design them better? “Milk and Honey( has sold 2.5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 25 languages. Over the last two years, it has spent 77 weeks on The New York Times Trade Paperback Best-Seller List. Her second book, *The Sun and Her Flowers, was released this week and is No. 2 on Amazon’s best-seller list.”
Is Science Fiction Actually Rather Religious? [AUDIO]
Adam Savage, who used to host Mythbusters, says he thinks so. “I’m not positive that literature could satisfy that deep need for the transcendent, but I hope it can, because for me it really has.”
How To Fix The Gender Gap In Musical Theatre
First of all, name the problem. “When talking about gender parity in writing for the theatre, most of the conversation focuses on plays. Musicals get lumped in, and we assume the same solutions will impact both media once implemented. I don’t believe that’s true. Musical theatre is a related but different medium from playwriting. The path to production is different. The financing is different. The means of exposure are different. We need to be talking about musicals separately.”
Re-examining Dr. Seuss’ Legacy, Including Unsavory Racism
Children’s literature scholar Philip Nel has published many books about Theodore Seuss Geisel, including August’s Was the Cat in the Hat Black? “He did great anti-racist work … and he did work that was racist,” Nel says. “It was the same person, the same body of work, done at the same time.”
Was Harvey Weinstein’s (Alleged) Harassment An Open Secret In Hollywood?
Women, at least those willing to speak on record, say it was. But it’s not as if Weinstein is alone. “The scandal has shone a harsh light on a culture of sexual misconduct that some say prevails in a male-dominated film and television industry that has barely changed in the last 40 years.”
A Native American Artist Finds Freedom In Chaos
Jeffrey Gibson says that earlier, “Every studio visit I had turned into me doing Native American Art 101. … People came in with zero to no knowledge. It was simplistic. So I wasn’t developing myself.” But things changed to “a complex cocktail of beauty and ugliness” after he and his husband moved away from Brooklyn, bought an old schoolhouse, and had a child.
Late Night Isn’t Exactly The Most Diverse Landscape, But Here Comes Robin Thede
The history of African American women on late night is limited but prestigious – previous hosts have been Whoopi Goldberg, Mo’Nique, and Wanda Sykes. So Thede’s new The Rundown is “both a risky proposition and a potential breakthrough for BET, which has a sporadic history of late-night talk-show programming, and for Ms. Thede, who was most recently the head writer and an occasional performer on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore.”
The Otherworldly Falsetto Of Moses Sumney Comes From His Deep Childhood Shyness
The musician says he spent a lot of time singing under his breath at school. “At 10, his pastor parents moved from California, where he was born, to Accra in Ghana, where his fellow students would mock his American accent. It kickstarted what he calls ‘an almost obnoxious obsession with loneliness, singledom, isolation,’ which has permeated his music ever since.”
Fantasy That Focuses On Africa, Not Europe, Is Booming Right Now
Writers including N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor – whose 2010 postapocalyptic Who Fears Death is being turned into a series on HBO – and, earlier, Octavia Butler and Ben Okri, have long been turning to traditions well outside of medieval Europe for their speculative fiction books, but now “there’s an enormous appetite for fantasy stories that feature diverse characters and settings and tackle contemporary social issues.”