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The secret life of a ghostwriter
What does it take to lend one's writing to someone else? A ghostwriter who has authored multiple books offers a peek into the world of writing sans the fame.
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The Hacktivist
Celebrity hacker Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang first clashed with US tech giant Microsoft for teaching others how to modify the Xbox. Almost 20 years later, he is suing the US government to push for the right to use and own technology, all while creating hackable hardware with other tech superstars like whistleblower Edward Snowden and firmware hacker Sean Cross. Bunnie is convinced that, “If you can’t hack what you have, you don’t own it.” This documentary tinkers with the hacker’s mind on issues around transparency and privacy in the hardware world, all while Bunnie dismantles his childhood, his philosophy, and his controversy.
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Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories
Sapient machines have appeared in stories for over a hundred years, but they’re just one example in our long tradition of using non-human characters to tell stories about ourselves.
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Lost Doctor Who episodes found – but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC
As sci-fi show’s 60th anniversary nears, a collector pleads for BBC to offer amnesty to those with recordings discarded by corporation
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Demolition Man's Writer Explains How the Three Seashells Came To Be
Over the decades, few film debates have endured as much as Demolition Man’s three seashells, and now we can at least put one aspect of that debate to bed: where, exactly, they came from.
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Porn addicts, vicars, madmen and murderers: Sarah Ogilvie on the Oxford English Dictionary’s unlikely writers
In a 70-year crowdsourcing project, a motley global public sent in the words and definitions that would form the first OED. Ogilvie reveals the shocking stories behind the book’s birth
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Pistons break single-season NBA record for longest losing streak
The Detroit Pistons are now the sole owners of the longest single-season losing streak in NBA history.
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Swapping books for audiobooks has reignited my love of literature
The prospect of reading a book filled me with anxiety and shame. But an ADHD diagnosis changed everything, says writer and presenter Verity Babbs
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28 years ago, a book club began reading one novel. It’s finally reached the end
Filmmaker Gerry Fialka has convened a book group to read James Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake,’ a book famously tough to grasp.
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How I identified a probable pen name of Louisa May Alcott
By disguising her name, Alcott could publish in less prestigious venues without worrying about tarnishing her literary reputation.
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Scholastic Book Fair Will Discontinue Separate Collection Of Race And Gender Books
The publisher had said it would segregate books with themes on race and gender at school fairs in order to navigate a rash of bans across the country.
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Amazon's Wheel of Time Has a Serious Dragon Reborn Problem
Amazon's Wheel of Time has been quite the wild ride, but the show has a major problem with the Dragon Reborn.
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National Memoir Writing Month - November 2023
November is National Memoir Writing Month. It's the perfect time to start writing your autobiography. It's not clear to me how November came to be National Memoir Writing Month. I suspect that National Memoir Writing Month was created by somebody who doesn’t like writing fiction.
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John Grisham, George R.R. Martin Among 17 Authors Suing OpenAI
Authors Jodi Picoult and Jonathan Franzen are also part of the suit, which accuses OpenAI of copyright infringement and “systematic theft on a mass scale."
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Why Isn’t Frasier Drinking at Cheers in the New Revival? The EPs Explain
Frasier is back in Boston in the new Paramount+ revival, but he has yet to set foot in the bar where everybody knows your name. Thursday’s premiere saw Frasier Crane return to his old stompin…
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Punk Sinatra (An A.I. mockumentary)
The forgotten punk pioneer
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Column: The writers' strike was the first workplace battle between humans and AI. The humans won
At a moment when the prospect of executives and managers using software automation to undermine work in professions everywhere loomed large, the WGA strike took on major symbolic weight.
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John Oliver, Back From Strike, Scolds Hollywood Studios For Not Offering Writers a Fair Deal on ‘Day F—king One’
John Oliver in his first episode since April 30 applauded the Writers’ Guild of America and scolded Hollywood’s business daddies for taking so long to offer writers a fair deal. After a…
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The Story Behind The Story: How Ghostwriters Shape Public Discourse
Politicians, celebrities, business leaders and influencers from all walks of life increasingly turn to professional writers—ghostwriters—for the literary assistance they need to craft their messages, stories, speeches and online content in a compelling way.
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Is The Gilded Age's Opera War Based on a True Story?
The new season of the hit series details a battle between two high-society music venues, but how much of it is real?