What we’re witnessing in the Ukraine will go down in history for a number of reasons, not the least of which, for me, is illustrating how important an education in the arts is, especially for a spot in politics. Zelensky is not just a guy who knows how to work a camera, but also one who knows how to evoke and manipulate emotion to move hearts and minds. He’s smart enough to be a politician without being a career politician, and he therefore acts based on with his heart, but filtered through his critical thinking skills, as opposed to the usual strategic shilling for votes that goes on in politics. We need more like him. Worked in the Czech Republic as well. More poets, musicians, and clowns in power, pls.
- Russia was already engaged in trying to destabilize Ukrainian publishing;
- A Ukrainian poet reflects;
- Sarah Polley on writing for the screen vs writing for the page;
- Ragazzi Award at Bologna (when I lived there, I realized I was finally speaking proper Italian the day I yelled at a bunch of kids lighting fireworks in the street late at night, “Eh, ragazzi! Che cazzo fai?”)
- Stats are in: most Americans don’t support book bans;
- Is it still possible to judge a romance book by its cover?;
- The January 6 Report will be published as a book… Gee, I hope it has more resolution than the actual January 6 Report;
- Is fan fiction the sincerest form of literary flattery?;
- Beattie on book covering the history of censorship for Freedom to Read;
- Why didn’t Poe have children? Who knew people were investigating this?;
- Another tone-deaf celebrity tries out a poem on Twitter and gets dragged, but she’s standing up for herself now (ie, digging herself out of a hole);
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