We shouldn’t assume too much but the fact that two women made Oscar’s best director field for the first time ever in 2021 suggests that Hollywood is realizing that the low number of female directors in the biz (still just 20 percent) is ridiculous. So, now that Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell are in the club, who’s next? My money is on Sarah Polley.
How history forgot a 20th century pandemic
How could these times ever be forgotten? Historian Esyllt Jones explains why we don’t know more stories from an even more devastating global health catastrophe the Great Influenza of 1918 but how its complex toll is captured in a moving short story by Alice Munro.
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Historian and lecturer Esyllt Jones explains why so many stories from the Great Influenza of 1918 disappeared
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Posted: May 04, 2021 4:48 PM ET | Last Updated: May 4
Nurses and teachers acting as volunteer nurses at isolation hospitals in Alberta and Saskatchewan during the influenza epidemic in 1918. (Courtesy of Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary)
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Bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe will discuss her new book in the Beach House series, The Summer of Lost and Found, in an online conversation on May 11.Coastal Point ⢠Submitted
The Lewes Public Library and Browseabout Books will host bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe for a discussion of her new book âThe Summer of Lost and Foundâ in a live, online conversation Tuesday, May 11, at 5 p.m. She will be joined in conversation by No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Wingate.
Monroeâs new release in the Beach House series follows the historic Rutledge family of Charleston, S.C., during a summer of upheaval and change. In a story set against the backdrop of the 2020 pandemic, Linnea Rutledge faces a layoff from her beloved aquarium job and the return of an old flame from California, who is quarantining next door. She finds that for her â and her family â finances, emotions and health teeter at the brink.
Francesca Ekwuyasi, Billy-Ray Belcourt & Anne Carson among 2020 Governor General s Literary Awards finalists
The $25,000 prizes, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, are awarded in seven English-language categories. The winners will be announced on June 1, 2021.
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