TV
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Weekly Geekery
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The Rumpus Interview with Frederick Barthelme
Frederick Barthelme talks about his new novel, There Must Be Some Mistake, life after teaching, and why food from the Olive Garden is “execrable in the best possible way.”
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YA Television
This summer’s debate over young adult literature has raised questions ranging from whether adults should read YA to what even counts as thee genre in the first place. The New Yorker’s television critic Emily Nussbaum extends these questions to the…
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TV Can Be Literature Too
Long-running, writer-driven shows have overtaken American cinema as the most prestigious strand of American visual culture, revealing most of even the supposedly best American movies as risk-averse, unimaginative, and hopelessly bound by their time constraints. Todd Hasak-Lowy argues on the Believer‘s blog…
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An Interview with The Wire‘s Omar
Michael Kenneth Williams, the actor who played Omar on the highly-praised HBO series The Wire, is interviewed on Mother Jones. The show is often described as “the greatest television show ever made,” and Williams offers his perspective on why the…
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More Writers Taking TV Turns
Veteran director, Darren Aronofsky, is directing a new television series called “Hobgoblin.” How is this piece of news relevant to the literary community? Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are writing the pilot, swept up in the TV magnetism that has…
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Rushdie Writes for TV
Salman Rushdie is applying his story-telling skills to a new medium, signing up to do a sci-fi-ish television series, affirming his belief that TV maximizes communication because of its wide appeal. His new work will be called “The Next People.”