Manuel Betancourt

1 week ago | latimes.com | Manuel Betancourt

In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d attended the Assn. of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Denver that year and felt like he was the only Black poet in attendance. “I wasn’t,” he assures me, all these decades later. “But it felt that way. I was on an island. I felt like I was the only person there. I couldn’t stand it.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Manuel Betancourt

In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d attended the Assn. of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Denver that year and felt like he was the only Black poet in attendance. “I wasn’t,” he assures me, all these decades later. “But it felt that way. I was on an island. I felt like I was the only person there. I couldn’t stand it.

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Manuel Betancourt

This article contains spoilers for the finale of FX’s “Dying for Sex.”Jenny Slate hasn’t quite figured out how to respond when people tell her they found themselves sobbing at the end of “Dying for Sex,” the new FX show she stars in alongside Michelle Williams. It’s an understandable reaction. The limited series, which began streaming on Hulu on Friday, follows Molly (Williams) as she upends her life when she gets a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Manuel Betancourt

Jenny Slate, star of "Dying for Sex," in New York last week. She plays Nikki, an actor who becomes her best friend's caregiver. (Justin Jun Lee / For The Times)This article contains spoilers for the finale of FX’s “Dying for Sex.”Jenny Slate hasn’t quite figured out how to respond when people tell her they found themselves sobbing at the end of “Dying for Sex,” the new FX show she stars in alongside Michelle Williams. It’s an understandable reaction.

2 weeks ago | avclub.com | Manuel Betancourt

So another deadly stay at the White Lotus comes to an end—and not with a whimper but with a bunch of really loud bangs, the very same ones we heard in the first episode of this third, Thailand-set season. As it happens, writer-creator-director Mike White was not shy when it came to foreshadowing, but that didn’t make the shootout at the end of the episode any less thrilling (or heartbreaking, of course). But before that bloodied fate, “Amor Fati” begins with a new day.