Screenwriting is a very completely different animal than novel writing—there are completely different guidelines, there are other ways to get suggestions, there are completely different expectations…however understanding screenwriting might help you navigate your personal tales whether or not or not you are serious about filmmaking. (The Intersection of Private Historical past and Historic Fiction: A […]

Annually on December 21, 22, or 23, darkness envelops Earth’s Northern Hemisphere for a bit longer than regular. Whereas what we now know to be the winter solstice has an easy astronomical clarification, early myths of why the solstice takes place additionally share insights into early civilizations’ steps into science. Science ATL Picture by Tom […]

La classifica settimanale dei libri più venduti subisce nuovi cambiamenti significativi, con un avvicendamento al vertice e diversi spostamenti nelle posizioni di rilievo. Tatà di Valérie Perrin riconquista il primo posto, scalzando Spera. L’autobiografia di Papa Francesco, che scende fino alla terza posizione. Al secondo posto sale Il Dio dei nostri padri. Il grande romanzo […]

Unpacking reminiscences turns into a type of hazardous responsibility, as questions come up, and a shadow crawls alongside the ceiling of a distant bed room. That is the story of my nice uncle’s home and the girl who turned its new proprietor. As soon as, within the quietness of a late afternoon, as I awaited […]

This content material comprises affiliate hyperlinks. While you purchase via these hyperlinks, we might earn an affiliate fee. Welcome to In the present day in Books, our each day round-up of literary headlines on the intersection of politics, tradition, media, and extra. It’s Been 20 Years Since Twilight Revealed?! The affect of Stephenie Meyer’s angsty […]

Poet and former Nationwide Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia has been busy. He’s simply printed a spate of latest books: Poetry as Enchantment and Different Essays (Paul Dry Books); Dana Gioia: Poet & Critic (Mercer College Press, edited by John Zheng and Jon Parrish Peede); and final and shortest (205 pages), Weep, Shudder, […]

TODAY: In 2011, President Barack Obama awards Maya Angelou the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  “Along with his authoritarian orders, the president—and his unelected South African Rasputin—have eradicated the basic instruments of debate and debate, particularly phrases themselves.” Rob Spillman on self-censorship and why writers, editors, and publishers shouldn’t obey prematurely. | Lit Hub Politics Larissa […]

All through the course of actuality tv, many an unremarkable particular person, having by no means earlier than put pen to paper, has turned to poetry to specific their love and affection.  Provided that  the premise of a courting present is to show love into a contest—demonstrable and quantifiable, in a position to be gained […]

Photograph by GeoJango Maps on Unsplash Right now’s put up is by Dennis James Sweeney, creator of the brand new ebook Tips on how to Submit. As writers, we regularly lengthy for the proper information to the place we should always submit our writing. We wish a useful resource that’s reliable, constant, and navigable. The […]

The primary subject of the journal Big Robotic I ever got here throughout featured the Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai on the quilt—this was sufficient to face out on a crowded newsstand within the mid-nineteen-nineties. However what caught my consideration had been the teasers for a random assortment of different tales, about gangs, browsing, […]