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Lawrence Wrights The End of October is a thriller for our times By Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times © Penguin Random House/Tampa Bay Times/TNS "The End of October" by Lawrence Wright “The End of October” by Lawrence Wright; Knopf (400 pages, $27.95) ——— Timely books are often described as “ripped from the headlines.” But Lawrence Wright’s new novel, “The End of October,” scooped the headlines with its tense tale of a fast-moving pandemic and the cascade ...

Can speculative fiction teach us anything in a world this crazy? There’s an old saw from Mark Twain about how truth is stranger than fiction, and I think it’s fair to say we’ve lived through a very strange reality this past year. With all the chaos and change, we’re led to a foundational question: what’s the purpose of speculative fiction and its adjacent genres of science fiction and fantasy when so much of our world seems to already embody the fantastical worlds these works depict? ...

Illustrations by Jeremy Leung "The Means of Getting Someone in the Door": An Inside Look at Scientologys Lavish Production Facilities and Actor Recruitment Strategy by Kirsten Chuba April 29, 2021, 6:00am PDT Ex-members offer a rare look at the organizations multiple studios and allege that Scientology used the audition process to recruit outside actors: "Its an in-house film and no ones going to see it." Ten years ago this month, the Church of Scientology purchased Hollywoods historic KCET lo...

Austin Monthly presents Instagram Live with Lawrence Wright All events are subject to change due to weather or other concerns. Please check with the venue or organization to ensure an event is taking place as scheduled. Courtesy photo Austin Monthly will present an Instagram Live with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright. Viewers can learn more about Lawrence’s upcoming book, The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid, and his recent blockbuster novel, The End of October. Th...

The Children of Men, from 1992, shows society’s vulnerability ; the clones created in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The 2010 film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Photograph: AP But as a writer of speculative fiction, I never expected to gauge the distance between my novel and the world I was living in. Some things I wrote about, for instance how characters would feel after years of a pandemic, now feel unnerving. I imagined Dawn – a character who rises quickly up the hi...

Jacobs: What’s the matter with Minnesota? We’ve got to move away from the complacent self-satisfaction that hides the reality and fuels the division that threatens all of us, not Minnesotans only, not Midwesterners only, but all Americans together. Written By: Mike Jacobs | × Mike Jacobs, Grand Forks Herald columnist. GRAND FORKS — Here’s the headline that confronted me on Sunday morning, when I opened my computer screen and clicked the icon for The New York Times: “M...

Jacobs: What’s the matter with Minnesota? We’ve got to move away from the complacent self-satisfaction that hides the reality and fuels the division that threatens all of us, not Minnesotans only, not Midwesterners only, but all Americans together. Written By: Mike Jacobs | × Mike Jacobs, Grand Forks Herald columnist. GRAND FORKS — Here’s the headline that confronted me on Sunday morning, when I opened my computer screen and clicked the icon for The New York Times: “M...

Jacobs: What’s the matter with Minnesota? We’ve got to move away from the complacent self-satisfaction that hides the reality and fuels the division that threatens all of us, not Minnesotans only, not Midwesterners only, but all Americans together. Written By: Mike Jacobs | × Mike Jacobs, Grand Forks Herald columnist. GRAND FORKS — Here’s the headline that confronted me on Sunday morning, when I opened my computer screen and clicked the icon for The New York Times: “M...

Mike Jacobs: What’s the matter with Minnesota? We’ve got to move away from the complacent self-satisfaction that hides the reality and fuels the division that threatens all of us, not Minnesotans only, not Midwesterners only, but all Americans together. Written By: Mike Jacobs | × Mike Jacobs, Grand Forks Herald columnist. Here’s the headline that confronted me on Sunday morning, when I opened my computer screen and clicked the icon for the New York Times: “Minnesota is...

Jacobs: What’s the matter with Minnesota? We’ve got to move away from the complacent self-satisfaction that hides the reality and fuels the division that threatens all of us, not Minnesotans only, not Midwesterners only, but all Americans together. Written By: Mike Jacobs | × Mike Jacobs, Grand Forks Herald columnist. GRAND FORKS — Here’s the headline that confronted me on Sunday morning, when I opened my computer screen and clicked the icon for The New York Times: “M...