Buckle up, fantasy fans, and get ready for some worlds to collide. Joseph Mawle, the actor who played Jon Snow’s doomed uncle Benjen Stark, is confirmed to be starring in Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel series. Rumors from Deadline suggest Mawle will play a villain named Oren. Mawle joins Will Poulter and Markella Kavenagh on what’s shaping up to be a pretty exciting cast. Poulter’s set to play a young hero named Beldor, and Kavenagh will play the female lead opposite Mawle named Tyra. image via global news Though Amazon declined to comment on whether Mawle had actually been cast, …
Peter Navarro, a trade advisor for the Trump administration, published Death by China in 2011, but now Navarro’s publishers are attaching an addendum to the book to warn readers it contains quotes from a made-up character. image via the new york times One of Navarro’s key sources used in Death by China has been outed as being fake. Navarro frequently cites a Harvard-trained economist named Ron Vara with a backstory that strangely parallels Navarro’s own life. You might also have noticed that “Ron Vara” is an anagram of “Navarro.” Well, turns out there is not Ron Vara and, in fact, Navarro frequently used the …
On Oct 21, 1971 Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Chile in 1904, Neruda had a lifelong passion for poetry, publishing his debut collection, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, in 1924. He’s one of the most celebrated poets in history, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez once called him “the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language.” Here are some of the most insightful quotes from Pablo Neruda’s poetry and life! Image via NObelPrize.Org 1. Love is so short, forgetting is so long. 2. As if you were on fire from within. // The …
For better or worse, Tiger Woods has been in the spotlight quite a bit over the last decade. Back, his forthcoming memoir from HarperCollins, promises to be his “definitive story.” After the meltdown of his marriage in 2010, the media’s portrayal of Tiger fell outside his control. He sees Back as a way of taking control of his life story again: I’ve been in the spotlight for a long time, and because of that, there have been books and articles and TV shows about me, most filled with errors, speculative and wrong. This book is my definitive story. It’s in …
The Booker Prize judges “explicitly flouted” the rules of the prize, choosing two winners for the first time in more than 25 years. Margaret Atwood and Bernadine Evaristo. At 79 years old, Atwood is the oldest writer to ever receive the prize. Even more exciting, Bernadine Evaristo is the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since it began in 1969. With Bernadine Evaristo @TheBookerPrizes ., happy co-winners! pic.twitter.com/uq144cFIaN — Margaret E Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) October 14, 2019 After five hours with the prize’s jury, the judges emerged to announce they had been unable to select just one …
