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[unable to retrieve full-text content] The Walter Tevis Renaissance    The Nation

When Sega announced in 2018 that Yakuza spinoff title Judgment would receive an English dub, I was pretty excited. While I really enjoyed 2017's Yakuza 0 and its original Japanese voice track, I'm the type of person who prefers listening to English dubs when watching anime or playing Japanese RPGs. When Judgment launched in Western territories on June 25, 2019, I was thrilled to hear Greg Chun's charming voice come through my TV speakers as he portrayed the game's protagonist, Takayuki Yagami. But Judgment 's English voice track doesn't cover the entire game. Key dialogue pertaining to the game's critical path is in English and some of the important side characters speak it too, but not everything was dubbed over. As a result, while Yagami goes around speaking English, everyone else in the city of Kamurocho sticks with Japanese. While Sega of America implemented the English dub track in this manner for logistical reasons, the game unexpectedly remind...

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, a consumer video and entertainment company, said Wednesday that it plans to acquire Redbox, the struggling video rental company, in an all-stock transaction. Why it matters: The deal gives Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment direct-to-consumer distribution. It gives Redbox much-needed liquidity after its business took a hit due to COVID. Catch up quick: Redbox runs several media distribution assets, including a DVD rental kiosk business, a TV on-demand platform and an ad-supported streaming platform. The company went public via a merger with a blank check company last year, but the market for those types of special IPO mergers has since devolved. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment is a publicly traded video streaming company that focuses primarily on feel-good, ad-supported video content via two services: Popcornflix and Crackle. Details: The combination of the two companies will create cost savings that will help both companies grow fa...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper review – an extraordinary treasure of hope and grief    The Guardian

Fiction Podcast Sherman Alexie Reads Raymond Carver Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. Photograph by Ian C. Bates / NYT / Redux Sherman Alexie joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Where I'm Calling From," by Raymond Carver, which was published in The New Yorker in 1982. Alexie is the author of nineteen books of fiction and poetry, including "Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories" and the novel "Flight."

"It's a cauldron of humanity pushed up against the ocean," says the artist Doug Aitken about Venice Beach, the Los Angeles neighborhood where he lives. He could just as well be talking about his most recent piece, "Wilderness" (2022), an immersive multimedia installation currently on view at Manhattan's 303 Gallery. The 12-minute video, projected on a number of large screens that form a circle, depicts a day at a beach less than a mile from Aitken's house. In the early days of the pandemic, Aitken, who is known for making art that exists somewhere between narrative film, design and sculpture, found himself observing the wide range of visitors who gathered there. He noticed a certain rhythm, which he decided to capture on film: In the early hours of the day, the sun rises and the beach slowly fills with people (this is accompanied in the video by plaintive, almost hypnotic A.I.-generated singing). The figures seem at loose ends, whether they're standi...

Rethinking old myths and accepted narratives comes with risks, but the results can be thrilling. Against all odds it's summer again, traditionally a time of blockbusters and big tents and the promise of holidays and travel, new vistas to shake up the everyday. But traditions have been in a state of flux for some time, and plans are still just stories we tell ourselves, subject to revisions and retellings as we align with the uncomfortable realities of our world. In that spirit, here's a mix of stories about stories, looking at old myths from new angles, exploding received ways of thinking, and exploring or inventing vast new terrains. Stories can be many things in these books: rigid shackles or malleable clay, weapons or armor, infection or cure. Malcolm Devlin's AND THEN I WOKE UP (Tordotcom, 165 pp., paper, $13.99) is a short, compassionate novel of post-plague reconstruction, in which narratives are a vector of disease. One day, people from all walks of life suddenly be...

A Week in the Life  is a weekly Zikoko series that explores the working-class struggles of Nigerians. It captures the very spirit of what it means to hustle in Nigeria and puts you in the shoes of the subject for a week . The subject of today's "A Week in the Life" is Adeola Badmus, an Abuja-based IELTS tutor. She talks about her struggles with teaching proud adults, Nigerians who think they shouldn't write IELTS and why she loves her job so much regardless. SUNDAY My Sunday tutorial sessions are in the afternoon, and I don't go to church, so I sleep in until 9:30 a.m. When I get up, I do my morning skincare routine. While my skincare mask is on, I clean my apartment. After that, I take my bath and go back to bed.  My session usually starts at 1 p.m., but today, I decided to chill because I knew I wouldn't have to deal with the traffic at City Gate on weekends. It would be a smooth 20-minute tri...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] If You Love "Bridgerton" Then You'll Want To Read These 16 Historical Romance Books    BuzzFeed

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Summer Classes at Exeter Adult Ed | School News | carriagetownenews.com    carriagetownenews.com

Many authors of the 21st century take inspiration from some of the world's favorite classic fantasy authors like C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Some even credit older fantasy writers such as Mary Shelley or Lewis Carroll. Of course, we all love George R.R. Martin, Rick Riordan, and J.K. Rowling, but it is essential to read some of the more recently published and less famous fantasy genre authors. For books to continue to get published, it is the book community's job to make sure to include authors outside the realm of well-known. In an effort to expand your knowledge of lesser-known, underappreciated fantasy authors of the 21st century, here are five whose works breathe fresh life into classic understandings of the fantasy genre: 1. Madeline Miller American author Madeline Miller is notable for her two retellings of some of the most infamous stories in Greek mythology. Her first text, "The Song of Achilles," published in 2011, follows the love story of Achilles and Pa...

Like William Faulkner or Thomas Hardy, and not unlike the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Edith Wharton loved some milieus too much for just one story. In its setting and characters, The Old Maid is quintessential Wharton, the New York-born author who wrote fifteen novels and novellas and became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Today she is most closely identified with the upper-class, hermetically sealed New York of her childhood and young adulthood, which she sharply indicted in The House of Mirth (1905) and satirized more gently in The Age of Innocence (1920). Few realize that she wrote even more stories set in Gilded Age Manhattan. Indeed, Wharton summoned up the lost world of her childhood almost compulsively as an adult, long after she resettled as an expatriate in France. Edith Newbold Jones was born in 1862 into a grand New York family related to the Astors and van Rensselaers. As a novelist, she was a late bloomer. She wrote a number of poems and stories du...

EXCLUSIVE : Outfest will expand its Screenwriting Lab this year, in partnership with Netflix. The Outfest Screenwriting Lab was established in 1997 as a screenwriting contest, and has since become the cornerstone of the organization's education and creative development programming. It will this year provide 10 LGBTQIA+ screenwriters with one-on-one mentorship from top industry showrunners, executives, and writers who will offer professional development, scriptwriting support and insight into the latest trends within the industry, having supported eight scribes in 2021. The week-long intensive lab will take place virtually in October and will thus be accessible to storytellers across the globe, with applications opening today. Outfest is expanding access to its program with support from Netflix, by waiving submission fees for all applicants and providing grants to help financially support each of the selected screenwriters. Netflix's partnership with Outfe...