#short-story

#short-story

If I live to be 100 - make that 200 - I dare say I will never read a lead from a Pulitzer Prize-winning story as out there (or in there) as the one I am about to share.The writer, book critic Andrea Long Chu for New York magazine , wrote the lead while trying to make sense of the scatological imagination of novelist Ottessa Moshfegh , known for her physical and metaphysical explorations of the human body and all the waste it produces.

Sir Ben Okri says to be honoured means helping the human race to be better and more civilised after being made a Knight Bachelor.The renowned Nigerian-born writer and cultural activist, considered to be one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions, said he was delighted by the honour.

Author Cressida Cowell has revealed the specific island off the west coast of Scotland which inspired her series How To Train Your Dragon to mark the 20th anniversary of the first book.The Children's Laureate, who has until now kept the name of the island a closely-guarded secret, disclosed she spent her childhood summers on Little Colonsay just off the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides.

Young adult superheroes are having a moment, and we're about to get one of the biggest surprises yet.Wonder Woman is getting a daughter.Yes, really.The artist behind DC Comic's upcoming new series has teased a design for the character, and fans are already falling in love.Writer Tom King and artist Daniel Sampere will introduce Trinity in an upcoming anniversary edition of DC Comics' Wonder Woman (issue 800) before developing her into a central character in a series to launch in September.

Image Credit...Ryan Liebe for The New York Times.Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.Good morning.I don't know that my father made fried chicken every Sunday afternoon when I was small, but that's how I remember it: the slice of bacon floating in the spattery oil, flour everywhere, golden crusty chicken laid out on a wire rack, then kept warm in the oven before supper.

David Dastmalchian in "The Boogeyman."(20th Century Studios)Comment Gift Article StarOutline (2.5 stars) There's good news and bad news about "The Boogeyman," the scary new movie based on a short story by Stephen King about - well, the title says it all.First the good news: You will sit on the edge of your seat for much of this movie, and jump out of your skin periodically,especially if you can still remember being afraid to go to sleep because of the monster that lived in the closet, the thing under the bed, the shadow cast on the wall by the Yeti-like hominid lurking just outside your bedroom window, plucking leaves off a tree and eating them.

With controversial AI creations around so many corners, it's refreshing to see an analogue project like DREAMHOUSES come along.Thought up by Fort Makers and stemming from the idea of vivid pandemic-induced dreams, the project is an online exhibition of abstract fantasy homes.Six artists and designers created their own "dream house" before being paired up with writers, who then used the creations as a prompt for an accompanying text work.

Visiting Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory, on exhibit at Princeton University's Firestone Library from now through June 4, 2023, is like going to a sauna.You enter a warm, windowless space, and as you rotate your way through each experience, you find you're dunked suddenly into something that barrages the senses-fire-singed early drafts, a detailed map, alternate endings for Beloved, the photograph that inspired Jazz.

Creative writing is generally an activity best conducted alone.So, if the festivities are getting on top of you, this could be the ideal time to squirrel yourself away with a notebook.Tell your partner, guests or children that this really is the ideal moment for you to kick off the novel or short story you have been planning in your head for years.

Just in time for the weekend, here is your weekly grab bag of neighborhood goings-on - featuring art exhibits, political panels, and oodles of workshops and fun activities for kids.The first of these events starts in a few hours, so waste no time diving in:
Friday, May 19
Democracy and storytime at Manny's
From 5-7:30 p.m., Manny's cafe at 16th and Valencia is hosting Sochua Mu, a Cambodian women's rights activist and politician living in exile in the United States.

A sign on the dried grass in front of my apartment building named it the Isles of Charm, a label that suggested-correctly-the irony of the complex's eventual decay.I moved in on a COVID-era deal, meaning I could afford a studio unit in Los Feliz, though only the kind with communal laundry machines that smelled like Tide pods and urine.

Rebecca Makkai never knows where her books are going to take her.Her 2014 novel, The Hundred-Year House, started as a short story about male anorexia and eventually transformed into an almost entirely different tale about an old estate (and the family secrets it hides) that unfolds backwards across the 20th century.

When done right, distractions can help us regulate our emotions - and, with the perfect activity, you could be introducing another layer of joy into your life
1.Go for a mindful walk
Going for a walk is a recommendation we've all heard before, right?Being mindful on your walk, however, can take things up a notch.

April showers bring May flowersand a crop of fresh books, each deliciously inventive.In Abraham Verghese's long-anticipated The Covenant of Water, a curse follows a South Indian family for close to a century.Tom Hanks' The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece takes readers behind the scenes of a Hollywood superhero flick.

Christine Schatz is the mind behind Shiloh Eyes, she's an L.A.-raised artist, songwriter, engineer, and producer who alchemises great change in her through pristine, mostly down-tempo electro-pop grooves and confessional lyricism.Some time ago, Christine made a bit of a name for herself online as the founder of The Loop, a music blog for the savvy, flexible-eared music lover that she founded in 2010 and ran for the next 8 years, before eventually becoming a fixture in the SoCal DJing scene.

The news this week that some works of bestselling children's author Roald Dahl will be edited to remove language deemed offensive and the eventual decision to keep the original versions in print has sparked global debate about editing classic texts to reflect contemporary values.Gone under the changes are descriptions such as fat for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's Augustus Gloop, replaced by enormous, prompting a furious reaction and accusations of absurd censorship.

What is Flex?Flex is an all-in-one tool that can take an input, process it, and send it to New Relic as if it came from one of our pre-built integrations.How does Flex work?Flex uses our infrastructure agent and a config file to generate the data you want to report in a format that New Relic can use.

Image Credit...Chris Simpson for The New York Times.Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero.Prop stylist: Sophia Pappas.Good morning.Bryan Washington has a love letter to banana bread in The New York Times Magazine this week and, with it, a lovely new recipe for miso pecan banana bread (above) that I think every one of us should make this weekend.

After Bridgerton Season 1 became a monster hit for Netflix in 2020, demand for more of the Bridgerton-verse grew, leading to the show's early renewal through at least four seasons.There are nine Bridgerton books out there, written by romance author Julia Quinn, plus Quinn's Bridgerton prequel series, which is four books long.

For our new series Making of a Poem, we're asking poets to dissect the poems they've published in our pages.Kyra Wilder's "John Wick Is So Tired" appears in our new Spring issue, no.243.How did this poem start for you?Was it with an image, an idea, a phrase?With the first line.It was something I'd thought a lot about-I run marathons, and in those tense few days before the race, when I'm drinking water and carb loading and meditating on what's going to happen, I watch John Wick, specifically because of the way Keanu Reeves runs.