James Smart
Editor and Writer at Freelance
Sometimes I threaten to tweet more | Books, travel and music | Writer, editor | London | Lonely Planet, Guardian, etc
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1 week ago |
nation.africa | James Smart
An odyssey of two Kenyans, one who carted away entire wagons and one who fell off the carriages. The last passengers on the last train to be dropped off from the Lunatic Express just before the turn of the millennium rued the experience. Catching that last train ride was the very last thing both passengers and staff wanted; the services had become utterly uninspiring. The toilets were overflowing, the windows boarded up, and the carriages were filthy and infested with vermin.
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1 week ago |
econsultancy.com | James Smart
The high regulatory standards to which pharma companies are held pose a hurdle when it comes to using social media. In the UK, for example, the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) prohibits the promotion of prescription-only medicines (POMs) to the public. Many markets have similar guidelines, and even in the United States, which allows direct promotion, a ban on pharma advertising on certain channels is currently under discussion.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | James Smart
Alison Bechdel emerged in the 1980s with Dykes to Watch Out For, a groundbreaking weekly strip that featured a group of mostly lesbian friends. Since then, her acclaimed graphic novels have focused mainly on herself and her family. Fun Home in 2006 (exploring her closeted, funeral-director father’s suicide and her coming out) was followed by Are You My Mother?
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Dec 31, 2024 |
theguardian.com | James Smart
When the explosion shakes New York’s East Harlem one morning in 2008, Royal Davis is dozing in a coffin, his face itching behind a prosthetic as students film a zombie movie in his funeral parlour. Veteran detective Mary Roe is arresting a homeless man who has just presented a bank with a ransom note.
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Dec 6, 2024 |
theguardian.com | James Smart
It’s 1pm in American Fork, Utah, and the author of one of the biggest books of the year – in physical size and sales potential – is in his bedroom, having just woken up. This, it turns out, is typical. “I usually write until about 4am, then get up around noon,” Brandon Sanderson tells me over video call, leaning forward in a large chair.
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I got to spend ages whittling down a list of great graphic novels and comics again! Here are some splendid books from this year https://t.co/MRhT24JtFn
RT @MattSingh_: Dumfries and Galloway both had a bad week
So the new My Favorite Thing is Monsters is great. Start with volume 1, if you've not already... https://t.co/RK7L3kGgK2
