Sam McCarthy accompanied his father on the Camino de Santiago and is featured in his father’s new memoir, but what did he think of it? The pair discuss their achievement.
Category: Writing and Writers
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Writers on Strike Make Time for Romance at Picket Lines
In Los Angeles, movie and TV writers on strike are eyeing one another with more than solidarity on their minds.
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Striking Hollywood Writers Disrupt TV’s Major Ad Event
Dozens of protesters greeted marketers as they entered the first major event of the upfronts, an annual showcase for advertisers in which media companies stage lavish gatherings to promote their lineups.
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Striking Writers’ Union Denies Waiver, Imperiling Tony Awards Telecast
The Writers Guild of America indicated it would not grant a waiver to allow a live telecast of the Tonys on June 11, threatening one of Broadway’s biggest marketing moments.
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When Connie Converse, the ‘Female Bob Dylan,’ Lived in N.Y.C.
There’s a resurgence of interest in the pioneering singer-songwriter who disappeared when she was 50.
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Drew Barrymore Drops Out of Hosting MTV Awards Show Over Writers’ Strike
Just days before the show was scheduled to air, the actress and talk-show host said she would pick up her hosting duties next year.
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Late Shows Go Dark in First Fallout From Strike
How long they stay off the air is an open question. During the last strike, they gradually returned after a couple of months.
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A ‘Greenwich Village’ on the Prairie
When Mari Sandoz, chronicler of frontier life, fled the Sandhills of Nebraska, she found fertile creative ground among the poets and artists of Lincoln. Exploring her world.
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Hollywood Writers Go on Strike, Halting TV and Film Production
The dispute, which pits 11,500 television and screenwriters against the major studios, has shattered 15 years of labor peace in the entertainment business.
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Will a Chatbot Write the Next ‘Succession’?
As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing writers and actors seek limits on artificial intelligence.