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BABY REINDEER
If writer, director, star, and “stalkee” Richard Gadd’s Netflix-streamed series is indeed the true story he asserts it to be, then viewers are privy to a staggering, brutal, often surreal glimpse of the intricacies of human greed and need. The…
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Bright New Book Alert: SHALLOW STOCK Raises the Dramatic Stakes
An abundance of novels in the marketplace—books ostensibly geared for seasoned, adult readers—have so suffered from the trend of infantilization and the West’s pervasive, cultural “dumbing-down” that one tends to approach new work with an unhealthy dose of Low Expectation.…
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Women Rule The Publishing Roost
Behold. ———— #Publishing #WomenInPublishing #NotMineTheyDont #AuthorJonathanKieran #JonathanKieran #WriterJonathanKieran #CaliforniaLife #OnTheEdge #NewNovel #JonathanKieranTheAuthor #JonathanKieranMusic #JonathanKieranArtist #Jericho #JonathanKieranJericho #JerichoAlbum #WritersOfInstagram #ArtistsOfInstagram #AuthorsOfInstagram #PopCulture #RandomCommentary
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Correction …
… there are too many books by those who ought not to be writing them, according to established standards of editorial excellence and reasonable marketplace expectation. ——————— #Publishing #TooManyBooks #IDespiseSocialMedia #AuthorJonathanKieran #JonathanKieran #WriterJonathanKieran #CaliforniaLife #OnTheEdge #NewNovel #JonathanKieranTheAuthor #JonathanKieranMusic #JonathanKieranArtist #Jericho…
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The Seasonal Secret Behind Book Publishing
And sundry. It might even be described as somewhat hemispherical. From the brains at Book Riot. —————— #Publishing #PublishingSeasons #TraditionalPublishing #AuthorJonathanKieran #JonathanKieran #WriterJonathanKieran #CaliforniaLife #OnTheEdge #NewNovel #JonathanKieranTheAuthor #JonathanKieranMusic #JonathanKieranArtist #Jericho #JonathanKieranJericho #JerichoAlbum #WritersOfInstagram #ArtistsOfInstagram #AuthorsOfInstagram #PopCulture #RandomCommentary
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Egyptian Temple? Back to the Drawing Board, LEGO.
LEGO has released some extraordinary and sophisticated pieces in the upper range of their line of showcase architectural models at retail (Taj Mahal, Colosseum, Eiffel Tower, HOGWARTS, etc.) but this new, proposed approximation of an Egyptian temple leaves me wishing…
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UK Publishing Numbers Tick Upward
Interesting trends from Publisher’s Weekly for those who follow the vicissitudes of the industry as played out in the United Kingdom. ——————— #Publishing #PublishingUK #AuthorJonathanKieran #JonathanKieran #WriterJonathanKieran #CaliforniaLife #OnTheEdge #NewNovel #JonathanKieranTheAuthor #JonathanKieranMusic #JonathanKieranArtist #Jericho #JonathanKieranJericho #JerichoAlbum #WritersOfInstagram #ArtistsOfInstagram #AuthorsOfInstagram #PopCulture…
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Clive Barker Winds Things Down … and Up?
Clive Barker’s name as a master of fiction on the terrifying side of the spectrum has diminished over the years, even though he has not stopped writing and producing projects ranging from books to comic adaptations to films. Once touted…
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Waylon Jennings Panegyric in Billboard
Meh. Underwhelming heft behind the piece. Some new song-tributes on the down-charts and a basic rehash. I imagined that there would be a bit of news about the six-hour Jessi Colter-produced They Called Us Outlaws documentary. What the hell has…
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Shocking, One Must Admit.
Shark attacks are on the upswing, worldwide. As if we didn’t know. Is it climate change? Is it something even more nefarious, like healthier shark populations and MORE humans tooling around for recreational purposes in coastal waters than at any…
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