Hints and tips:
...I became a fan again, with a capital F. Instead of watching the show and thinking, say, about the production, I was completely immersed in it....
...Joyce Carol Oates’ Zero-Sum (Fourth Estate, 9 hrs 45 mins), presented by an array of highly proficient readers, offers tense narratives, variously filled with tales of seduction, revenge and — in the collection...
...Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang, read by Helen Laser (The Borough Press, 8hrs 38mins) This utterly diverting thriller of literary and cultural appropriation is a cautionary tale: if you witness the freak...
...Carol F Kessler’s Daring to Dream: Utopian Fiction by United States Women Before 1950 is a good reference point, as is Rebecca M Marrall’s Women of Color in Speculative Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography...
...As we head towards the seasonal break, I’ve been to several carol services and concerts, including the FT’s own event at St Bride’s, the journalists’ church on Fleet Street....
...The court case, Held vs Montana, was filed in March 2020 in Lewis and Clark county, which is where the state capital of Helena is located....
...Weldon’s predecessors include F Scott Fitzgerald, who invented slogans for streetcar signs, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote radio commercials for a coffee company....
...We’ve all seen those ‘farewell’ emails that go viral with ‘F**K YOU BOSS’ spelled out from the first letter of each sentence....
...Henry Jr had dinner with FDR the night before he died, and Bob was with Bobby Kennedy when he learnt John F Kennedy had been shot....
....” — Mike Clark, Oxfordshire...
...My friend Eliza Clark, whose novel Boy Parts came out in 2020, put it more bluntly: “Whether they mean to or not: everyone steals when they write (any one who says they don’t is lying)....
...Swampians who want to learn more should read Axios’s Jonathan Swan on Trump’s Schedule F plans....
...Pilita.clark@ft.comTwitter: @pilitaclark...
...Later this autumn, he has a book out on the 1960s environmental revolution in America called Silent Spring Revolution: John F....
...McDonald’s was among companies including Kimberly-Clark, the Kleenex tissue maker, which said they were passing on the increased costs to customers by raising prices....
...pilita.clark@ft.com Twitter: @pilitaclark...
...Separately, the White House confirmed yesterday it was negotiating with the Polish government to supply Kyiv with American F-16 jets to replace Russian-made warplanes that Ukrainian pilots are trained to...
...Whether the defendant thought to invoke Gordon Matta-Clark’s severed house or Ai Weiwei’s smashed Han Dynasty urn remains unknown....
...She begins to walk to the movement directions of Les Child, a choreographer who danced with the Michael Clark Company and founded Britain’s first “voguing” house in the 1980s....
...But Clark warns against commenting on politics and polarising topics....
...Pam Cotton Conn owns a dealership in Carol Stream, Illinois....
...Second, you stand a pretty good chance of meeting the 97-year-old novelist who owns it, F Sionil José, who can remember back to the second world war.”...
...He resembles Clark Kent in appearance and manner, down to the boxy eyeglasses and the slicked-back, jet-black hair....
...Ted Lasso’s leadership lessons The sweet-natured comedy shows that it pays to be a kind and decent manager, writes Pilita Clark. Dozens of LinkedIn denizens agree....
...He was fascinated by the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, in which a group of perfectly intelligent people in John F Kennedy’s administration made a series of perfectly ridiculous decisions to support a botched...
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