Movie review: 'Wallis Island' has fun with desperate musicians, obsessive fans
"The Ballad of Wallis Island," in theaters Friday, is an appealing comedy about a washed up musician hired to perform for his ...
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Bryan Washington on Writing Toward Optimism
And, as usual, music helped a good deal: while drafting, I was listening to a lot of TAMTAM, bjons, Lady Wray, and wave to ...
A Hare, a Fox, an Owl, a Snail: Animal Memoirs Are Going Wild
Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ ...
I'm a published author and I tested Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Grok 3 at creative writing — here's my verdict
I picked Claude 3.7 Sonnet because the developer, Anthropic, claims the bot is capable of writing with more nuance and a ...
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The Story and Meaning Behind “The Rose,” the Bette Midler Movie Ballad From an Unlikely Source
If you hear “The Rose” on the radio today and don’t know the story behind it, you might just assume the touching ballad was a standalone-type thing written to capitalize on the vocal strengths of ...
Megan Moroney Is the Gen Z Country Queen We Need
Megan Moroney has a smoky voice and an inimitable way of telling stories about love in the internet age. Amazingly, she got kind of a late start.
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“The need to place blame”: Suzanne Collins Revealed Panem in The Hunger Games Represents America After a War That Nearly Bankrupted the Nation
The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins released another prequel to the iconic franchise and in an earlier interview, talked ...
New ‘Hunger Games’ Novel by Suzanne Collins, ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ Now Available Online
Suzanne Collins has announced that a new "Hunger Games" novel, titled "Sunrise on the Reaping," will be released next year.