Bill Murray is better known for movies like Caddyshack and Ghostbusters than he is for being a big poetry fan, but the actor and comedian is actually incredibly well-read. O, The Oprah Magazine recently convinced Murray to share a few of his favorite pieces with readers. Murray’s poetry fandom goes under the radar a bit, but he’s a longtime fan of the art form. The actor once read Emily Dickinson poems for a group of construction workers at a public event, and he has financially supported Manhattan’s Poets House literary center for decades. So Murray was more than prepared when Leigh Haber, the books editor of O, …
If at first you don’t succeed… you might be like J.K. Rowling. The Harry Potter author, who is among the wealthiest and most respected writers on the planet, took to Twitter recently to share rejection letters that she’s gotten over the years. It all started when J.K. Rowling responded to an aspiring writer who had recently dealt with rejection: I pinned my 1st rejection letter to my kitchen wall because it gave me something in common with all my fave writers! https://t.co/ZmGNWDdF7x — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 25, 2016 The mention of J.K. Rowling’s rejection slips piqued other fans’ interest, and soon …
The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the winners of the organization’s 2016 literary awards. More than $500,000 in prize money was distributed to 13 talented writers. Check out the full list of winners below! The American Academy of Arts and Letters is an honor society that promotes literature and the arts. It’s quite the prestigious organization: it was founded more than a century ago by a group that included the likes of Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson. There are some familiar faces among this year’s honorees. The winners included Ta-Nehisi Coates, who has already won a National Book …
More than seven years after his death, David Foster Wallace will lend his name to a new book. String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis will collect Wallace’s non-fiction writing about his favorite sport, tennis. String Theory will collect five essays Wallace wrote about tennis, including profiles of tennis greats Roger Federer, Michael Joyce, and Tracy Austin, GalleyCat reports. The book will also include an introduction penned by John Jeremiah Sullivan of the New York Times Magazine. Book Buttons Embed ISBN: 9781598534801 David Foster Wallace was one of America’s greatest and most influential writers, and he shocked the literary world …
Disney has released a new clip from the upcoming live-action version of The Jungle Book. The one-minute clip is called “Intro to Shere Khan.” Check it out below! In the clip, we meet the story’s tiger antagonist, Shere Khan. Khan, voiced by British actor Idris Elba (The Wire, Luther), is distrustful of humans – which is bad news for human boy Mowgli (Neel Sethi). Mowgli is protected by Akela, who is voiced by Giancarlo Esposito (Once Upon a Time). The Jungle Book is an adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling book of the same name, as well as a re-make of the …
