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International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist announced; Check list here
9Apr By adminNo Comments
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International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist announced; Check list here

The International Booker Prize shortlist for 2024 was announced today (April 9, 2024) and the six books selected are fabulous for sure. In an announcement on their social media page, the Booker Prize committee wrote, 'We are delighted to reveal the #InternationalBooker2024 shortlist, featuring six books ‘that interweave the intimate and political in radically original ways’.'The International Booker Prize is an annual award given to the best work of fiction translated in the English language and published in the UK and Ireland.The prestigious award acknowledges and honours the important role of translators in helping diverse literature be accessible to people across the world. The six books shortlisted for International Booker Prize 2024 are: 1. 'Mater 2-10' by Hwang Sok-yong, translated ...
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Justin Torres’s Art of Exposure and Concealment
1Jan By adminNo Comments
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Justin Torres’s Art of Exposure and Concealment

According to the author Justin Torres, “Backstory and exposition are tricks of the adult mind.” That explains why his first novel, “We the Animals,” which is told from the shared perspective of three young brothers in upstate New York, unfolds not as a narrative but as a string of vignettes. The semi-autobiographical novel describes a family with not enough money or status to satisfy its hungers for food, dignity, safety, or belonging. The boys, born to a white mother and a Puerto Rican father, are halfway feral: their father, who has an explosive temper, disappears for days at a time; their mother works the overnight shift at a brewery. Parental love is abundant but expressed complexly, through touch, hard and soft, through delirious predawn meat loaves.“We the Animals” came out in 2011,...
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The Best Photography Books of 2023
26Dec By adminNo Comments
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The Best Photography Books of 2023

It's not all words here at WIRED. Every one of our stories is brought to eye-popping life on the web and in print by our newsroom's photo desk. Each year, this award-winning team of photo editors compiles a list of their favorite photography books. What follows is a selection of their picks from 2023. (Most were released this year; there are one or two you can preorder for delivery in early 2024.)The list covers everything from intimate portraiture and human storytelling to the harsh and industrial environments of modern factories and defense-tech trade shows. We know photography books can be pricey, but they’re worth the investment. If you’re someone who can’t find the time to commit to a novel but still craves that sublime experience of being transported to a faraway country or taken on...
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AI Is Telling Bedtime Stories to Your Kids Now
24Dec By adminNo Comments
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AI Is Telling Bedtime Stories to Your Kids Now

The problem with Bluey is there's not enough of it. Even with 151 seven-minute-long episodes of the popular children's animated show out there, parents of toddlers still desperately wait for Australia’s Ludo Studio to release another season. The only way to get more Bluey more quickly is if they create their own stories starring the Brisbane-based family of blue heeler dogs.Luke Warner did this—with generative AI. The London-based developer and father used OpenAI's latest tool, customizable bots called GPTs, to create a story generator for his young daughter. The bot, which he calls Bluey-GPT, begins each session by asking people their name, age, and a bit about their day, then churns out personalized tales starring Bluey and her sister Bingo. "It names her school, the area she lives in, ...
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The Splendor of Wordless Picture Books
16Dec By adminNo Comments
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The Splendor of Wordless Picture Books

In an essay that accompanied the 2021 exhibit “Speechless: The Art of Wordless Picture Books,” at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the children’s-book author David Wiesner laid down milestones for the genre to which “Bunny & Tree” belongs. Wiesner started with “What Whiskers Did,” by Ruth Carroll, from 1932, a joyous work of black-crayon pointillism that was, according to Wiesner, “the first completely wordless picture book published in the United States”—and, oddly, the only one for some thirty years. Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are,” from 1963, was a second inflection point, owing to its “three consecutive wordless double-page spreads that encompass the Wild Rumpus and that exposed millions of readers to the idea of ‘wordlessness.’ ” A third, Wiesner wrote, was...
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