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undergroundrockpress · 2 years

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#woodstock #award books #vintage book cover #hippies #1969 #1971 #richard hubbard #hippixploitation

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basicallyanotherwitchesthing · 2 months

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Daoma Winston - The Wakefield Witches - Award - 1966 (cover illustration by Irv Docktor)

#witches #wakefield #occult #vintage #the wakefield witches #award books #first book publication #daoma winston #irv docktor #irving seidmon docktor #1966 #daoma winston strasberg #dee

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thehauntedrocket · 10 months

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Vintage Paperback - Battle For The Planet Of The Apes by David Gerrold

Award (1975)

#Paperback Art #Paperback Cover #David Gerrold #Planet Of The Apes #Battle For The Planet Of The Apes #POTA #Science Fiction #Film #Vintage #Art #Paperback #Paperbacks #Award #Award Books #1975 #1970s #70s

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ebookporn · 5 months

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LeVar Burton Is Still Fighting For Your Right to Read

In an age of unprecedented book bans, the actor and literacy advocate is going to the mat for the freedom to read. "America loves to live in the shadows," he says, "but we're living in an age when the truth wants to come out."

by Adrienne Westenfeld

Nearly two decades after PBS’s long-running series went off the air, the Reading Rainbow generation is all grown up. Their love of reading and knowledge is an enduring gift, courtesy of host LeVar Burton and the show’s producers—but in an age of unprecedented assaults on the freedom to read, what’s to become of today’s young readers in the making? As ever, Burton is looking out for them. The actor and literacy advocate recently served as the honorary chair of Banned Books Week, an annual October event dedicated to raising awareness about attempts to remove reading materials from libraries, schools, and bookstores. Now, he’s making his second appearance as the host of the National Book Awards, where “censorship” will no doubt be the word on every honoree’s lips. “I've put in work in this field; I've put in time on these issues,” Burton told Esquire. “I'm happy to be the face of it and represent it, because these are matters that I care deeply about.”

Great interview, worth the read.

"The whole idea of Americans being in control of their own bodies, their own minds, and their own destinies is a political issue, which is weird, given the fundamental underpinnings of the creation of this nation. But here we are, having this conversation about bodily autonomy, what kids should read, and what we should think. For me, it's a fight worth fighting. It's not only a conversation worth having. It's a fight worth fighting... The fight for reproductive freedom is tied to the effort to ban books. They're definitely linked. What we're looking at is authoritarian control, and that's just not part of the charter."

#levar burton #book bans #banned books #literacy #censorship #librarians #national book awards

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my-wife-doesnt-approve · 3 months

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Huge congratulations to @neil-gaiman for sweeping the ComicScene Awards of 2024!

Best Comic of All Time (at a crushing 47.5%)

Best Adaptation (at 40.9%, beating Into the Spiderverse)

And, I cannot agree with this one more

Best Writer of All Time (55.1%)

If you haven't read the Sandman, this is ComicScene and me telling you you really should.

Congratulations Neil!

https://comicscene.org/2024/02/01/comicscene-award-winners-2024-to-be-announced-here-07-02-24-7am/

#neil gaiman #the sandman #ComicScene #ComicScene Awards 2024 #graphic novel #the sandman is still one of the best books I've ever read #if Neil was in a category he crushed it #did i vote in this? you bet i did

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betterthanapokeintheeye · 3 months

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Good Omens is up for an Award and YOU can vote for it!

The Comedy.co.uk Awards are an annual poll of tens of thousands of British comedy fans in which the best TV and radio comedy programmes of the last year are named.

Running since 2006, the awards provide an accurate gauge of the most loved modern British TV and radio comedies as every single programme is included in the nominations list (for our 2022 vote it was 379 different shows!), and the results are 100% based on the public vote. There is no biased jury or naive judging panel involved here - just comedy fans.

Good Omens is up for a TV Comedy Drama 2023 Award in the Comedy.co.uk Awards !

The other nominees are :

Boat Story

Brassic

Inside No 9

Sex Education (which is excellent and also deserves to win)

There She Goes

Good Omens won this category back in 2019, it also won the Comedy of the Year for 2019 too!

You can cast your vote to help ensure that your favourite duo has an angelic shot at winning by casting your vote !

To cast your vote for this and other categories (Our favourite Ghosts are up for a couple of Awards too)

Vote here https://www.comedy.co.uk/awards/2023/

Voting closes on Sunday 21st January 2024 at 23:59 GMT.

#books #terry pratchett #good omens #neil gaiman #david tennant #michael sheen #sex education #comedy awards #tv comedy drama #boat story #brassic #inside no 9 #there she goes

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randimason · 1 year

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EDITED TO ADD: St. Louis University posted the 2023 St. Louis Literary Award ceremony; Neil’s talk starts about 40 minutes in. (Thanks DanGuyF)

In an interview before the event [Neil] Gaiman said that when he started writing comics, he “wasn’t even in the gutter.”

He said: “I used to look up and admire the people in the gutter. The science-fiction people were in the gutter, the children’s literature people were in the gutter, too, and I was so far down, I was in the storm drain.”

Great writeup by Jane Henderson from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sharing highlights of Neil’s talk at the St. Louis Literary Award!

#neil gaiman #comics #st louis #st louis literary award #it does look like a fountain pen #writing #genre #quotes #book talk #fantasy #with love from florida #Youtube

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green-receive-let · 7 days

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#cheryl blossom #comic books #critics choice awards #tyler seguin #french #earthquake #simon riley #anime layouts #jock bulge #chen #sans #kageyama x reader

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no-where-new-hero · 4 months

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omg I need your thoughts on the terminally o line author culture bc ngl it makes my eye TWITCH, there are authors I deliberately avoid even tho I've heard their stuff is good bc they're like that 🙈

HHHHH oh good lord, okay, from how I see it, there are two angles on this, both aggravating and sad: the official decree one and the spontaneous ecosystem one.

The officious one is that the nature of publishing nowadays demands an author have an online presence. You need Twitter/X. You need to let every potential reader know your book is coming out. You need engagement through reviews and pre-orders incentives (if you buy now you’ll get a special keychain!!) and word of mouth assurances from your peers that yes your book is as cool as you say it is. You need a newsletter with links (more buying! more voting on lists that are simply popularity contests!) and promises you’re still working on the next thing, don’t forget about me in the morass of everyone else doing the same thing. You need an Instagram and TikTok now to post pretty pictures and videos because one or two authors made it big off this kind of promotion and now everyone thinks it’s the ticket to the bestseller list (sadly, it seems to be working). You need an OnlyFans (a joke but I do recall a twt spat that was a joke/not joke about how rupi kaur will always be more beautiful than her critics and people who took issue with the conflation of beauty with talent). At the end of all this, you’re basically an influencer, a content creator creating content for the content you should be focusing on creating, the finished novel. And the novel itself seems to be disappearing behind the masks used to promote it (fanfic-style tropes, moodboards, playlists, memes) until I now no longer trust the book that I’ll pick up to have any resemblance to the enticements that brought me here. I’ve seen an author or two complain about the stress all this self-promotion generates, but it’s become such an entrenched part of the industry, I think people just accept it. And thus spend too much time online hoping that if they tweet just a little more, produce just one more reel, maybe that’ll be the difference between a sale and no sale.

The other side of this, distinct but obviously connected, is the ecosystem created by this panic of being perpetually visible coupled with the fact that so many of the new authors came of age during the rise of internet fandom culture. That opinionated community mindset that blurs the line between anonymity and friendship is the lens they bring to their own work. I mean, it makes sense I suppose—if you love yelling about characters and words, why wouldn’t you do that once you start to produce your own? This really came home to me hearing about that reviewbombgate “scandal” and how people involved were in reylo circles and that was used to provide receipts. You’re interacting with your readers and peers about your intimate work but they are also all strangers. They will not always give you the benefit of the doubt, and now—as opposed to the past when maybe the worst that could happen was a handful of bad reviews in newspapers—you will either be tagged in hate reviews, sub-tweeted, explicitly called out, demanded to atone for your sins. It’s no longer the morality of consumption but the morality of production. Of course, the easy answer is just log-off, touch some grass. But that can work only when you and everyone else are separated by anonymous accounts or when you have no platform to maintain. As an author trying to make your livelihood from this, suddenly it’s do or die. We’re in a strange moment of authorship bringing the Internet’s echo-chamber and claustrophobic into the real world (this is a lie: publishing now is no longer the real world. But it looks like it) and thus you can kind of no longer escape things.

Will the average reader who isn’t aware of all these machinations care about reviewbombgate? Would a reader browsing at Target think about the controversies around Lightlark? Very likely not. But the impression I’m getting more and more is that the average reader isn’t the one buying all the books. Or shall we say—a bestseller’s status relies on bookstore stock. Bookstore stock is only huge when they know a book will be a good investment. They’ll only know a book is a good investment if it and its author has street cred based on booktokkers, bookstagram, bloggers and reviewers (have you noticed how many books out these last maybe 1-3 years have these kinds of accounts thanked in the acknowledgments? Yeah), and THESE are also chronically online people who will Know. And decide the cast of fate.

Honestly, @batrachised, I see why you avoid these kinds of writers, though I wonder how long it’ll be before the disease becomes epidemic.

#i’m very doom and gloom about this if you couldn’t tell from my tone lmao #and of course it’s not a perfect formula; i read a decent debut this year by a writer trying to be very active on socials and idk how much #of a splash her book made because literary sff is a dying genre even with an ecological bent compared to the glut of romantasy #also this feels very timely because the goodreads choice awards were just announced and i am seething at seeing d*vine r*vals #get another accolade to its name #blake’s last braincell #blake talks shit #writing life

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giveamadeuschohisownmovie · 3 months

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gunsatthaphan · 1 year

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#a boss and a babe #a boss and a babe ep7 #Book Kasidet #mike chinnarat #gmmtv #thai bl #bl drama #STOP that was so cute 😩#jack wins a bestie award #also watching this after that prank call video 👀👀#we have no choice but to stan mike #4 life

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basicallyanotherwitchesthing · 1 year

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Luba Sevarg - The Do-It-Yourself Witchcraft Guide - Award - 1971

#witches #guides #occult #vintage #witchcraft #award books #1971 #luba sevarg

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thehauntedrocket · 2 years

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Vintage Paperback - Battle For The Planet Of The Apes by David Gerrold

Award (1973)

#Paperback #Paperbacks #Planet Of The Apes #Battle For The Planet Of The Apes #Science Fiction #Film #David Gerrold #POTA #TV #Television #Award #Award Books #Paperback Cover #Vintage #Apes #Gorillas #1973 #1970s #70s

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shineemoon · 19 days

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240405 ChannelNewsAsia K-pop group SHINee’s leader Onew and Hong Kong actress Charmaine Sheh are among some of the international stars who will take to the stage at this year’s Star Awards on Apr 21. Mediacorp unveiled the lineup of hosts, performers and award presenters for the Star Awards 2024, which will be held at the Theatre at Mediacorp, in a press release on Friday (Apr 5). K-pop idol Onew will be a guest performer and an award presenter, while Taiwanese singer Chao Chuan will also be stepping into the spotlight to perform. The SA2024 live show and Walk of Fame will air on Mediacorp Entertainment YouTube Channel. (Source)

#SHINee #onew #lee jinki #first of all HE'S SPEAKINGGGGG #WE'RE HEARING HIS VOICE AFTER SUCH A LONG TIME AND I CAN'T EXPLAIN HOW EMOTIONAL I AM RN 😭😭😭#'SHINee Onew inmida' 😭😭😭#I MISSED YOU SO MUCH 😭🫂#second HIS FIRST OFFICIAL SCHEDULE 😭 WE'RE LIVING #and third... this is his 3rd day of freedom and he's already booked on an award event presenting and performing #it's not even a full week of freedom for ontae and they're already busy left and right IKTR #video

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lgbtpopcult · 3 months

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LGBTPOPCULT BEST OF 2023 AWARDS 🏆