This year marks the 70th anniversary of City Lights Bookstore!
City Lights was founded in 1953 as the nation’s first all-paperback bookstore and as a “literary meeting place.”
Join us as we celebrate online and in the store. Full calendar of events: https://t.co/XH1DOgUXWn
A song that sounds scared of what it knows, Springsteen's 'Atlantic City' is the moment in which the ultra-violence always latent in his urban picaresques turns manifest and terrifying. Some say to live outside the law you must be honest. Others incur debts no honest man can pay.
Ron Perlman says “the cruelty which comes from a statement like, ‘we’re not coming to the bargaining table until people start bleeding,’ that’s war. That’s not a negotiation. There’s nothing civil about that. It’s a threat to people’s wellbeing”
(Source: https://t.co/jObmF4vBdC)
My father Neal Kirby (Jack Kirby’s son) has asked me to post this written statement in response to the Stan Lee documentary released yesterday on Disney+.
Fuck off. Kids who aren’t rich deserve to study art, literature, drama, history etc. We need them.
The entertainment and media sector was worth £83 billion last year. It accounts for 3% of total jobs (the same percentage as financial services).
Her argument is unserious.
Here’s Thomas Rabe, head of Bertelsmann which owns Penguin, on the opportunities of generative AI.
Boy, I wish Salinger, Amis or Woolf had been able to do this. I love their content. Think how much more content they could have generated!
https://t.co/fqMDhIxrTX
So they ban my book from young readers, confuse me with @oprah , fail to specify what parts of my poetry they object to, refuse to read any reviews, and offer no alternatives…Unnecessary #bookbans like these are on the rise, and we must fight back 👊🏿 DONATE here: https://t.co/QFjBGwYDCL
The Marvel Universe was 16 years old when I read my first Marvel comics in 1977. Sixteen years ago it was the end of Civil War, Brubaker was writing Daredevil and Captain America. I think of that every time a kid gets into comics these days.