At 83, Anne Tyler Has a New Novel. She’d Rather Talk About Anything Else.
While many of her contemporaries are playing canasta, she’s releasing her 25th book. There’s no mystery to it, Tyler says: ...
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Needy Streamer Overload: Typing of the Net Is a Novelty
Typing of the Net is a prime example of style over substance, as there's very little to this game beyond aesthetics.
‘Mussolini’ director Joe Wright: ‘When did anti-fascism become controversial?’
Wright, 52, started off political. As a teenager in the 1980s, he went on anti-nuclear marches and deployed the term fascist ...
Yale Scientists Reprogram Genetic Code To Create Revolutionary Synthetic Organism
Yale researchers have created "Ochre," a genomically recoded organism that enables the production of synthetic proteins with ...
The 5 Best Horror Movies Adapted From Classic Literature
The relationship between horror movies and horror literature goes way back. In fact, some of the best and most terrifying ...
Scientists have some novel ideas to save the ice caps. Here are the most out-of-the-box suggestions
Scientists say glacier engineering could be a potential stopgap as the Earth passes a critical climate milestone. Others aren’t as convinced ...
Correspondence school with cartoonist Howard Cruse: How I met my late mother through their letters
When I picked up the phone to call Cruse — always Howie to me — the most important thing I knew was that he had known my ...
14 Canadian romance books to swoon over this Valentine's Day
Becka Mack's series about fictional NHL team the Vancouver Vipers is peak hockey romance. Fall With Me is the fourth book in the series, featuring badboy defensive player Jaxon Riley, who doesn't need ...
Word from the Smokies: Applications open for unique writing conference in Great Smokies
Applications for the annual Tremont Writers Conference will be accepted through May 15. The conference will be held Oct. 22-26.
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Tom Robbins, bestselling PNW novelist, dies at 92
Robbins, who called La Conner in Skagit County home, was a bestselling novelist whose early books defined the 1960s for a ...
Operation Mincemeat: How Britain's Weirdest WWII Mission Became a Broadway Musical
MI5 and Royal Navy officers tricked the Nazis with a risky deception that saved thousands of lives. That incredible act of derring-do has since inspired a bestselling book, a Hollywood movie, a West ...