It was like any Monday morning at Seattle Central College, the community college where Stacey Levine has taught creative writing for fifteen years. Arriving at work, she sat down at her office desk—a bulletin board with lightly crumpled world maps pinned up behind her—and fired up Facebook. A friend from Elliott Bay Book Company, the
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(L to R) Lisa Edelstein and ‘Long Story Short’ creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg. Currently streaming on Netflix is the first season of the animated series ‘Long Story Short‘, which was created by showrunner and executive producer Raphael Bob-Waksberg (‘BoJack Horseman’). Air Date: August 22nd, 2025 The series features the voices of Ben Feldman (‘Cloverfield’), Angelique Cabral
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Drake released a whopping three albums Thursday night and threw shots in DJ Khaled‘s way in one of the tracks off his planned Ice Man record. In the track “Make Them Pay,” which serves as the seventh song on Ice Man, the rapper called out the Palestinian producer by name, criticizing him for not speaking
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Deluxe Editions of HEATED RIVALRY Series Plus a New Cover First things first: let me just say that the series isn’t technically called “Heated Rivalry,” it’s actually called Game Changers—Heated Rivalry is the second book
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When a BBC News article last month featured a mother and her 6-year-old son taking a day trip to Norway for their 40th flight together, it went viral and lit up LinkedIn. Climate advocates and sustainability professionals took issue with the gratuitous flight. It’s not just the carbon. A typical short-haul return flight from the
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Whatever term you want to use—Hollywood heavyweight or leading man—Austin Butler embodies it. From his titular role in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis to his villainous portrayal of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in Dune: Part Two, and most recently, his headline performance in Darren Aronofsky’s gritty crime thriller Caught Stealing, he’s every ounce a classic, genre-bending movie star. We
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Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Mercy Be. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn. TriVersity Talk! Is part of TriVersity’s
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Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their
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There are questions most people avoid asking out loud—and then there is Howard Bloom, who runs straight toward them. Not to provoke, but to understand. Not to believe blindly, but to decode. Among his most daring intellectual pursuits lies one of humanity’s oldest and most controversial mysteries: the nature of God. But Bloom doesn’t approach
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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1886, Emily Dickinson dies at age 55, with fewer than a dozen of her 1,800 poems published.  Lucy Ives offers prompts to help you write something you can’t measure. | Lit Hub Craft Cassidy Gard explains why she can’t just take it easy: “I think for a
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Britney Spears’ reps have shut down “ridiculous” reports that the singer behaved erratically with a knife in a restaurant, and the pop star has also broken her silence since her DUI arrest and subsequent stay in a rehab facility. Reports about the singer behaving erratically in a restaurant emerged on social media earlier this week,
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Emerson Miller/Paramount+ Dutton Ranch The Yellowstone spinoff that fans have been anticipating since the original series signed off in December 2024, Dutton Ranch follows the fierce Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) and her rugged cowboy soulmate Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) from Montana to Texas, where they start anew. This time they’re underdogs in the burg of
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(Left) Steve Buscemi in ‘Boardwalk Empire’. Photo: HBO Entertainment. (Center) Amy Madigan wins Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for ‘Weapons’ at the 32nd Annual Actor Awards. Photo by Rich Polk/Shutterstock for The Actor Awards. (Right) Ben Foster stars in ‘Hell or High Water’. Photo: Lionsgate. Preview: Amy Madigan, Steve Buscemi
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