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[unable to retrieve full-text content] Weekend Short: 'A Rose for Emily'    National Review

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Ten Things That Made 2022 Less Scary For Me    Book and Film Globe

GENA KITTNER For the State Journal Wisconsin author Jamie Pacton loves nothing better than taking some nugget of history and incorporating it into her novels. This is certainly the case with her latest, "The Vermilion Emporium," a cozy, romantic young adult fantasy published in November. She'll discuss her novel during an event at Mystery to Me in January. Q: Congrats on your new book. Could you start by talking a little about your background? You've had some interesting odd jobs on the way to becoming a writer. A: Thank you so much and yes, although I've been writing stories since I was a child, it's been a long, strange journey to publication. I currently work remotely for Arizona State University as an English teacher, but when I started college, I wanted to be a brain surgeon or a marine biologist. Eventually, I pivoted away from that, ending up with degrees in English and minors in history. After college, while I was still writing...

[embedded content] It's time for a new episode of the Horror TV Shows We Miss video series, and with this one we're looking back at a show that only lasted one season of eight episodes: the Stephen King anthology Nightmares and Dreamscapes (get it HERE). The show got its name from a King story collection that contained twenty-four stories, so it definitely could have gone on for at least a couple more seasons… especially since the Nightmare and Dreamscapes show didn't only feature adaptations of stories from the Nightmares and Dreamscapes book. The first and only season of the series also featured adaptations of King stories from his collections Night Shift and Everything's Eventual . To find out what we thought of the Nightmares and Dreamscapes TV show, check out the video embedded above! The King stories that were brought to the screen on Nightmares and Dreamscapes are Battleground, Crouch End, Umney's Last Case, The End of the Whole Mess, The Road ...

UNLV Opera Workshop II presents  Roman Fever  and  The Stronger  at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 9 and 10 in the Dr. Arturo Rando-Grillot Recital Hall. Based on the short story by Edith Wharton,  Roman Fever  (music by Robert Ward, libretto by Roger Brunyate) explores a chance encounter in Rome between two widows with secrets in their past. Adapted from the play by August Strindberg,  The Stronger  (music by Hugo Weisgall, libretto by Richard Hart) is a soprano monodrama about a woman who encounters a friend she believes had an affair with her husband. This double bill of psychological dramas is directed by Linda Lister and conducted by Darryl Cooper.  Roman Fever  features Abigale Hennings, Tyler Urbano, Giada Barney-Sink, Karol Avila, Dongmin Byeon, Claudia Affan, Andreea Cretu, Abbie McConnell, and Alonna Younger.  The Stronger  stars Emily Dirks. Spencer Baker is the pianist...

Writing is not simply fun. You can do it without much equipment, but you can also get paid for it. This is where college comes in, and in this article, we go over five of the best colleges to consider for a creative writing undergrad degree. This and other reasons are why many students consider a career in writing. Because of this, many learners strive to improve their writing abilities. Some writers only improve their craft after years of practice, while others are simply born gifted. However, a third option involves learning from the best teachers. Top Colleges To Get Undergrad Degrees In Creative Writing Whether you're studying creative writing to become an author, blogger, or copywriter, there's much to gain from a writing degree. If you are looking to improve as a writer, then consider these five universities for their excellent creative writing undergraduate degrees: University of Iowa Emory University Northwestern University Oberlin College Columbia University University...

We've come to the end of another bountiful literary year, and for all of us review rabbits here at Book Marks, that can mean only one thing: basic math, and lots of it. Yes, using reviews drawn from more than 150 publications, over the next two weeks we'll be calculating and revealing the most critically-acclaimed books of 2022, in the categories of (deep breath): Fiction; Nonfiction; Memoir and Biography; Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror; Short Story Collections; Essay Collections; Poetry; Mystery and Crime; Graphic Literature; and Literature in Translation. Today's installment: Short Story Collections. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub's "Rotten Tomatoes for books." * 1. Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 21 Rave • 5 Positive • 2 Mixed Read an interview with Ling Ma here "The eight wily tales mark the return of an author whose inventive debut, Severance, urgently announced her as a writer worth watching … an assured ...

While a 2,000-word paper may be a daunting task for some students, others take on a greater and even more creatively stimulating challenge—writing 50,000 words to draft an entire novel over the course of November. Besides being known as the month when exams start to loom, it also hosts National November Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), an international challenge for aspiring and established writers alike to complete the first draft of a novel within the month.  NaNoWriMo began in 1999 as a straightforward challenge: Write 50,000 words in 30 days. Over 20 years later, the challenge is still going strong, boasting over 400,000 participants in 2021. To put it in perspective, 50,000 words is about the length of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (47,094 words) or Chuck Palahnuik's Fight Club (49,962 words). NaNoWriMo is responsible for the publication of several bestsellers, including The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen—the latte...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] 10 Timeless Feature Length Classics Based on Short Stories    MovieWeb

In 2022, you had critical choices to make. And I don't mean just the votes you cast in the midterm elections.  I'm talking about your choices in reading. As all dedicated readers couldn't help but notice, there were basically two kinds of books this year — those about the disastrous Donald Trump era, which dominated the bestseller lists, and those that weren't about Donald Trump. Sadly, since my day job requires that I keep up with the latest in Trumparcana, I have no choice but to read some of the Trump books, or at least reviews and articles about the books, or in the pre-Elon-Musk-era, occasionally just tweets about the books. But in case you, too, feel compelled to read book-length looks into Trump's many high crimes and misdemeanors,  I'll recommend two: First, "The Divider" by the husband-and-wife team of Susan Glasser and Peter Baker, which chronicles the chaos in Trump's White House. And second, "The C...

Money / Side Gigs ©Shutterstock.com Personal libraries can be very near and dear to your heart. Like a soundtrack, every chapter of a particular book can bring you back to where you were in your life when you first read it. However, collections can build, tastes can change and moves can happen.  If you are ready to get rid of some books, and yes, they are used but in good condition, you might need to know where to sell them. Where To Sell Used Books Books can be more than just a hobby, when you are done reading them you can sell them to make some money. Whether it is online or in person, here are some great places where you can sell your used books. Amazon Barnes & Noble  BookScout...