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3 weeks ago | 
bookandfilmglobe.com | Katie Smith
Time is, indeed, a flat circle, and so a week may never pass without someone becoming Literary Twitter’s main character. Last week, it was writer Alex Perez, whose earlier tweets on the Literary Man became a Substack post, a reading list, and the topic of many, many conversations online about Raymond Carver. Let’s dive in. Young men should be reading Ray Carver, Richard Ford, and Denis Johnson. They should become regulars at a bar that attracts working class dudes and disaffected lawyers.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
bookandfilmglobe.com | Katie Smith
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the literary online love to complain, and the objects of their ire this week are these heinous young adult covers of Jane Austen classics. Puffin, Penguin UK’s children’s imprint, has released a series of brightly colored Austen covers, featuring Gen-Z renderings of her famous protagonists. They’re calling the series “First Impressions” and purposefully gearing it toward young readers with forewords by famous BookTok romance authors like Ali Hazelwood.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
bookandfilmglobe.com | Katie Smith
Your alarm clock goes off, awaking you from a fitful sleep. The red, old fashioned numbers read, “6:00,” as a Sonny and Cher song plays on the radio.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
bookandfilmglobe.com | Katie Smith
Gormer President Donald Trump announced that his vice presidential running mate would be ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author JD Vance, whose divisive book describes his upbringing in rural Ohio.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
bookandfilmglobe.com | Katie Smith
A Former Survivor player facing off against a former Bachelor for $250,000? Alan Cumming parading around a Scottish castle? Cumming buries them alive, covers them in bugs, and forces them to scour for shields to protect from “murder” in this 10-episode series. I would sum up Peacock’s The Traitors in one word: absurd — and obviously, it hooked me immediately. Based on the Danish show of the same name, The Traitors pits reality TV stars against each other in a game show version of Mafia.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
bookandfilmglobe.com | Katie Smith
When we first meet the Golden Bachelor on screen, he’s getting ready to welcome the 22 contestants on the show’s opening night. He’s got the fitted suit, the pressed shirt, and in a close-up shot we see… a hearing aid. Production drives home immediately — and beats us over the head for the subsequent nine episodes — that this is a show by and for older people. Adorable quotes about each contestant’s “second chance at love” and recognizing “we don’t know how much time we have left” abound.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
bookandfilmglobe.com | Katie Smith
Britney Spears’ new memoir, out last week, debuted as “the highest selling celebrity memoir“ — and for good reason. In it, the pop star reveals a number of juicy truths from her lifetime in the spotlight, including the abortion she had while dating Justin Timberlake and that her infamous head shaving was the result of postpartum depression.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
savingseafood.org | Alex Sen Gupta |Katie Smith
August 24, 2023 — Marine heat waves are becoming more frequent under global warming and this is having a significant impact on species’ ability to recover. Since April, the world has seen record high ocean temperatures and that’s bad news for the plants and animals that call the ocean home. Longer and more frequent bouts of extreme temperatures can cause the exodus of some species and the invasion of others, with potentially devastating impacts on the resident ecosystem.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
phys.org | Alex Sen Gupta |Katie Smith
Marine heat waves are becoming more frequent under global warming and this is having a significant impact on species' ability to recover. Since April, the world has seen record high ocean temperatures and that's bad news for the plants and animals that call the ocean home.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
sheknows.com | Katie Smith
Do you remember that almost loopy feeling of spending the night with a new partner for the first time? If only we could bottle up that emotion of the post-sex cuddle, we would. But what exactly is it that happens to our brains after sex? Is it possible to be not that into someone emotionally, and then after having sex with them feel a strong sense of attachment? There may be times where we confuse feelings of lust or love in the heat of the moment.
