Haruki Murakami, our favorite advice columnist, has a new piece of short fiction in the New Yorker.
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Public Access Poetry
In 1977-1978, a public access TV show called Public Access Poetry featured leading poets from across the country (Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Eileen Myles, John Yau, Brad Gooch). Thirty-one episodes are now online, but the Poetry Project at St. Mark's is seeking funding to post the remaining fifteen reels.
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Jeff Bridges to Adapt The Giver
Jeff Bridges is working to adapt Lois Lowry’s The Giver, and production is slated to begin in South Africa this fall. Bridges will play the titular Giver, and Deadline is reporting that Australian unknown Brenton Thwaites will play Jonas.
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The Joy of Cooking for Others
Rosie Schaap espouses the joys of cooking for others "in a powerfully fraught, anxious time" such as ours. "I wanted, at least in this small way," she writes, "to give comfort—both to myself and to my loved ones." And as our own Hannah Gersen has noted, if you're fortunate to have such a good friend for a chef, you can read a cookbook while they work.
The Pioneer Detectives on Kobo
Prefer to read your ebooks on a Kobo reader? Good news: the latest ebook original from The Millions, The Pioneer Detectives, is now available on Kobo.
Return to Sender
"A woman I did not know called me to help her with something I have always loved to do: write. Certainly it was fate, my involvement destined to be a seed for a fairy tale ending, I thought. I was wrong," Scott Saalman writes about the moral challenges of agreeing to help someone with their writing at The Morning News.
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Posthumous Hitch
Christopher Hitchens' final piece of writing has been published by Vanity Fair. It's about Charles Dickens, and in particular the author's "willingness to atone for his mistakes."
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Animated Russian Classics
Polish filmmaker Piotr Dumala spent three years working on his half-hour-long expressionistic adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, and the result is a “destructive animation” that’s at once unnerving and beautiful. However in case you’re more pressed for time, you can also get your animated Russian literature fix by checking out Natalia Berezovaya and Svetlana Petrova’s two-minute-long animation for Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita.