Month: January 2023

TODAY: In 1993, Maya Angelou recites her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration.    Ethan Warren considers love, war, and the ethos of James Herriot in the PBS series All Creatures Great and Small. | Lit Hub Film & TV Jared Yates Sexton reflects on growing up with conspiracy theories
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Twitter has about 2,300 active employees, Elon Musk said in a Tweet on Saturday. CNBC on Friday reported that Twitter’s full-time headcount has reduced to about 1,300 active, working employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title. About 75 of the company’s 1,300 employees are on leave including about 40 engineers, CNBC said, citing
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Iconic Roles is a look at some of the best performances in film and television by actors and actresses. After starring in several movies and television shows, Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg will put his skills to work behind the camera for the first time in his career for When You Finish Saving the World. The movie
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It turns out this producer’s “J. Cole Type Beat” was dead on. By Frazier Tharpe January 19, 2023  J.Cole sits courtside at the Toronto Raptors game against the Charlotte Hornets on January 10, 2023 at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Courtesy of Vaughn Ridley via Getty Images Even as one of the most successful
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Previously, we selected ten poems about fire, but what about fire’s elemental opposite? What are the best poems about ice and icy things, whether the poem deals in literal ice and icy landscapes, or in ice as a metaphor for extreme coldness of some kind? Below, we select and introduce ten of the greatest icy
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TODAY: In 1941, feminist literary critic Elaine Showalter is born.    In guns we trust: Paul Auster asks why America is the most violent country in the Western world. | Lit Hub Politics     Why Janet Malcom, after years of aversion to writing about herself, finally did: “She knew better than most that the only thing scarier than
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