Percival Everett, one of America’s most imaginative living fiction writers, has put an end to these critical debates by way of rewriting Twain’s novel onto his new book, strategically and programmatically titled James.
Comics tend to skew skeptical that AI can replicate attributes including timing and presence. A general claim reigns that the best AI currently seems able to offer is lazy and outright basic joke-writing.
Peter Keepnews reports on the life of Harry Belafonte (1927-2023) whose father was Martinican, and mother was Jamaican died on April 25, 2023. He writes, “In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic. But his primary focus was civil rights.” Read the full article at The…
Harry Belafonte, who stormed the pop charts and smashed racial barriers in the 1950s with his highly personal brand of folk music, and who went on to become a dynamic force in the civil rights movement, died Tuesday at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 96.