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Read, Watch, Binge: Like This Movie? You Might Also Like ...

Edit National Public Radio 15 Jun 2016
i. Read, Watch, Binge! Did you like the movie Trainwreck? You might also like the web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, the book How to Build a Girl and the TV show You're the Worst. hide caption. toggle caption ... Amazon tells us ... (Or like this podcast, enjoy this short story ... What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (short story) because it's the story Michael Keaton is attempting to adapt in Birdman ... ....

Road to ruin: songs about cars and sadness

Edit The Guardian 14 Jun 2016
The US has long celebrated the car as an emblem of youth and defiance – but a few songs have reshaped it into an image of angst, anguish and broken dreams. @keefstuart ... often hurt, betrayal and loss ... “I guess I should have known by the way you parked your car sideways that it wouldn’t last.” It’s such a brilliantly expressive image, like the opening line of a Raymond Carver short story about some doomed love affair ... Facebook. Twitter ... ....

The Year American Speech Became Art

Edit The Atlantic 02 Jun 2016
For an American embarking upon a literary career in the early 19th century, Henry Cabot Lodge once noted in The Atlantic Monthly, the first step “was to pretend to be an Englishman.” This was necessary, Lodge wrote, “in order that he might win the approval, not of Englishmen, but of his own countrymen.” ... values ... Without Hemingway, you don’t have Roberto Bolaño or Joyce Carol Oates or Raymond Carver or Jack Kerouac or Don DeLillo ... ....

Noted Authors Miller and Newman to Present at Coffee House Reading Series (Duquesne University)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Mar 2016
(Source. Duquesne University) March 15, 2016 ... Miller, a nonfiction writer and teacher, has traveled the world to write books telling the stories of people and places ... Newman is a poet and author of works such as Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children, Please Don't Shoot Anyone Tonight and the poetry collection The Slaughterhouse Poems ... Original Document ... (noodl. 32616566) ....

Carver Series Presents Poet, Memoirist Brian Turner March 9 (Syracuse University)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Mar 2016
(Source. Syracuse University). Poet Brian Turner will be the next writer to give a reading in the spring 2016 Raymond Carver Reading Series on Wednesday, March 9. Brian Turner. The series, which brings 12-14 prominent writers to campus each year, is presented by the M.F.A ... All events are free and open to the public. Turner served seven years in the U.S ... http.//news.syr.edu/carver-series-presents-poet-memoirist-brian-turner-march-9-72447/....

‘Writer’s Writer’s Writer’ Joy Williams Next in Raymond Carver Series (Syracuse University)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Feb 2016
(Source. Syracuse University). Novelist and short story writer Joy Williams, the Richard Elman Visiting Author, will give the next reading in the Raymond Carver Reading Series on Wednesday, March 2. Joy Williams. The series, which brings 12-14 prominent writers to campus each year, is presented by the M.F.A ... She was elected to the academy in 2008 ... http.//news.syr.edu/writers-writers-writer-joy-williams-next-in-raymond-carver-series-28176/....

Gregor Hens' Nicotine is not as addictive as one might expect

Edit New Statesman 22 Feb 2016
Despite his excellent eye for detail, Hens' account is not as persuasive as Will Self's forward. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img="">. Real-life tales of addiction occupy an ever-popular, if squalid, space in the literary landscape ... they lack dirt ... Hens père is an 80-a-day man, “a cigarette with a body attached to it”, to borrow Raymond Carver’s striking self-portrait....

5 Stories About Fathers and Fatherhood

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
2.  "Feathers" by Raymond Carver. "Feathers," the opening story in Carver's 1983 collection, Cathedral, tells the story of a couple who "didn't have kids" because they "didn't want kids." The couple, Jack and Fran, are invited to dinner by a couple they don't know well, Bud and Olla ... From Carver's Jack, ......

Poet Roger Reeves Is First in Raymond Carver Series Spring Lineup (Syracuse University)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Feb 2016
(Source. Syracuse University). Poet Roger Reeves will be the first writer to give a reading in the spring 2016 lineup of the Raymond Carver Reading Series on Wednesday, Feb. 17. Roger Reeves. The series, which brings 12-14 prominent writers to campus each year, is presented by the M.F.A ... http.//news.syr.edu/poet-roger-reeves-is-first-in-raymond-carver-series-spring-lineup-40265/....

This May Be the Most Beautiful Game About Being Stranded in the Wilderness

Edit Time Magazine 08 Feb 2016
... or “beating” anything, and where the action-adventure premise slyly becomes an experience tuned more to the frequency of a Raymond Carver or Richard Ford story....

Firewatch Creates a Gorgeous Atmosphere With a So-So Story

Edit Time Magazine 08 Feb 2016
More. The 50 Most Anticipated Video Games of 2016Here’s Some Adults Going Real-Life Mario Kart Racing ... Not just its grand WPA-style look, but Campo Santo’s attempt to lay out a quasi-open-world experience that’s not about fighting or collecting or “beating” anything, and where the action-adventure premise slyly becomes an experience tuned more to the frequency of a Raymond Carver or Richard Ford story....

William Gaskill, former artistic director of the Royal Court, dies aged 85

Edit The Guardian 04 Feb 2016
Vicky Featherstone pays tribute to ‘brilliant, uncompromising’ director who was celebrated for his productions of Bond and Brecht. @ChrisWiegand. William Gaskill, the theatre director and former artistic director of the Royal Court in London, has died at the age of 85 ... Related. Edward Bond's Saved ... Twitter ... Gaskill’s later productions included an adaptation of several Raymond Carver short stories at the Arcola theatre in London ... ....

William Gaskill obituary

Edit The Guardian 04 Feb 2016
Theatre director who brought Brechtian principles and puritanical rigour to his productions ... “What do they expect it to be?” he asked ... “Nothing was hidden, nothing secret,” he wrote ... In 2005, in what was then a rare professional production, he adapted five stories of Raymond Carver at the Arcola theatre, London, with his trademark disdain for “false ornamentation”. Michael Billington praised him as the “ideal interpreter” of Carver ... ....
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