The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1900, Oscar Wilde dies.  Merve Emre and Adam Dalva discuss how George Gissing’s The Odd Women defied both social and literary norms. | Lit Hub Criticism 2024 MacArthur Fellows Jericho Brown, Ling Ma, Jason Reynolds, and Juan Felipe Herrera, talk writing, book recommendations, and more.
0 Comments
The Night Agent is such a big hit for Netflix that it scored an early renewal before Season 2 even premiered! The action-thriller is set to return for its second season on January 23, 2025, but before that date was even announced (on November 13), the streaming service renewed it for a third (on October
0 Comments
The cast of ‘The Piano Lesson’. Photo: David Lee/Netflix © 2024. Streaming on Netflix beginning November 22nd is ‘The Piano Lesson,’ a film adaptation of the 1990 play by legendary playwright August Wilson. John David Washington stars as Boy Willie Charles, a sharecropper and ex-con who returns with his partner Lymon (Ray Fisher) to the Pittsburgh
0 Comments
[This story contains spoilers from Cobra Kai season six, Part 2.] When Cobra Kai season six ended Part 1 of its three-part final season in July, one major character was missing — the villain who many fans saw as a major component to the entire story. That character was mega-rich martial arts expert Terry Silver,
0 Comments
When Richard Kessler founded the Kessler Collection in 1984, the U.S. had few boutique hotels. Inspired by Europe’s small, independent hotels and bed-and-breakfast lodgings, Kessler discerned that travelers would pay up to stay in novel places. Today, he has 10 high-end hotels, all part of Marriott’s loyalty program and the largest Autograph Collection franchisee. Boutique
0 Comments
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisement Every year, I teach a writing workshop in the Stanford Continuing Studies Program. Called “No Critics, No Fear,” the class coincides with NaNoWriMo in November and provides everything an aspiring author needs to stay motivated: daily writing prompts; live craft lectures;
0 Comments
The Sick New World Festival will not be taking place next year after all. Organizers issued a statement revealing the cancelation of the event for 2025, citing “unforeseen circumstances” in their ability to put the show on in Las Vegas next spring. The full statement can be viewed below: It is with great disappointment that we
0 Comments
Sick New World festival has cancelled its planned 2025 edition only weeks after announcing the line-up. READ MORE: Metallica live in Amsterdam: still the greatest heavy metal band around The festival, which focuses on rock, nu-metal and industrial, shared the line-up for its third year in October. Previously set to take place at Las Vegas Festival
0 Comments
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Outlander, Season 7, Episode 10, “Brotherly Love.”] Outlander made way for two major returns in its latest episode, “Brotherly Love,” as Lotte Verbeek and Graham McTavish reprised their roles as Geillis Duncan and Dougal MacKenzie. But while fans may have been clued into their latest appearance, the context
0 Comments
Premiering on Paramount+ and digital platforms November 25th is the new Christmas comedy ‘Dear Santa’, which was directed and produced by Bobby Farrelly (‘Champions’) and written and produced by Peter Farrelly (‘Green Book’). The new movie reunites the Farrelly brothers with ‘Shallow Hal’ star Jack Black (‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’), and in addition features
0 Comments