Serena Williams’s fellow tennis professionals already know what their sport is like without her. She has played very little in the past two years and has played just two singles matches in the past 13 months. But as Williams, now 40 years old, made plain in announcing her impending retirement on Tuesday, it will very …
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Curate Management has added book and IP manager, Becca Rodriguez, to its growing team, variety has learned. The boutique management firm, founded by film and TV lit manager Britton Rizzio, opened its doors last year and focuses on creators in film and television, aiming to shape the careers of creatives with distinct voices. Rodriguez brings …
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LLooking into his spreadsheets, Jeff Desjardins can see the future emerging. He is the founder of Visual Capitalist, a data-driven content firm whose mission is to identify and communicate the trends that will power the economy into the future in a way that is easy for people to understand. The company has become known for …
Royal commentator and author Omid Scobie took to Twitter to reveal he is currently busy writing a new biography believed to be focused on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the Royal Family. Referring to his silence on social media in recent days, he wrote: “Know that if I’m quiet at the moment, it’s …
Given the prominence of the raunchy 2020 hit song “WAP,” by Cardi B, featuring Megan Thee Stallion, I loved learning that in the 1970s “WAP” stood for “Women Against Pornography,” a feminist group that argued, controversially, that violence is baked into all sex between men and women. Aronowitz also explores, with the help of the …
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“HAS top-of-her-game literary agent tells us she receives about 3,000 submissions a year,” says Joe Sedgwick, the head of writing services at The Literary Consultancy. “Of those, she requests to see the full manuscripts of about 70. Of those writers, she will take on maybe five to 10.” Faced with these odds, many people who …
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A school student in the APY Lands has illustrated a picture book in a First Nation language to improve the literacy of children in remote communities. Key points: A picture book for the Pitjantjatjara language has been launched in remote communities Each sound of the First Nation language is represented by a drawing of an …
August 8, 2022, 11:23am It seems like we’re all in a bad mood these days. After all, the planet is burning, democracy is crumbling, everyone is pivoting to video (again). Can a book make you feel better? Maybe, maybe not—but it can at least help you pass the time until you get to go to …
Comic Tom Segura’s best-selling book, “I’d Like To Play Alone, Please” Courtesy Grand Central Publishing The other night Natasha, my adult-ish daughter, asked me to accompany her to a book author event for standup comic and podcaster Tom Segura’s best-selling “I’d like to Play Alone, Please(Grand Central Publishing). It would take me too long to …
We’ve had ebooks, audiobooks, and of course good old-fashioned printed books – but could there soon be another way to read? So-called “augmented reality books” – dubbed “a-books” by their creators – are a step closer to mass-market production after a six-year project by researchers at the University of Surrey. While ebook readers are used …
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