I maintain that REM's Green is a great album but I will concede that Pop Song 89 was an early sign of decline setting in:

When Can You Be Disappointed by an Album? www.indignity.net/everything-is-oldies/

Imagine writing this about any other children's literature, the weird flex that the author is somehow required to keep pace with whatever is happening with Rupert Bear, say, or Worzel Gummidge:

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

If the New York Times decided to run nonstop coverage in favor of boll weevil blights, a certain subset of intelligent, graceful literary writers, not known till now for being pro-agricultural plague, would find themselves fruitfully grappling with thoughts about the role weevils play in their lives

Is there a word in German for "movie which you missed at the cinema but you read the reviews for and you were excited to see it, but now it's finally out on streaming and somehow you can no longer muster the enthusiasm to watch it"?

Has anyone checked whether downtown LA happens to have deposits of deep substrate foliated Kalkite?

A film that takes place where you're from

Team Miyazaki Forever.

Look, I'm not a fancy CEO guy, but if someone said to me "the key to this successful single-player IP's success is to make it purely a multiplayer game. No, not a spin off: fundamentally change the DNA of what people loved about the core game" to me, I'd probably, like, quit that job or something.

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book.

"Keener heard it first."

"A change, not an end."

Sending love out to every author who learned that their publisher’s marketing plan for their new book was to have an intern visit a remote woodland in winter, dig a hole in the frozen earth, and whisper their book’s title once, ‘neath the crescent moon.

Envy, ego, pride and pain: what I learned from publishing my first book | Hamilton Nolan

In honour of this week's exodus from an undesirable place, CITY OF RAIN will be free on Kindle all this weekend, starting Sat at 8am GMT. It's 730 pages worth of epic fantasy. Tell a friend. Go nuts:

Amazon UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CNPXMSQ2
Amazon US: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNPXMSQ2

Hi, I'm the author of CITY OF RAIN, the first in a series of epic fantasy novels, available from Amazon in paperback and Kindle Unlimited: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CNPXMSQ2

Here's what Kirkus Reviews had to say: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...