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A blurb on a book can be any combination of quotes from the work, the author, the publisher, reviews or fans, a summary of the plot, a biography of the author or simply claims about the importance of the work. In the 1980s, Spy ran a regular feature called " Logrolling in Our Time" which exposed writers who wrote blurbs for one another's books.
The Anthropocene Reviewed is the shared name for a podcast and 2021 nonfiction book by John Green. The podcast started in January 2018, with each episode featuring Green reviewing "different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale ". The name comes from the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch that includes significant ...
Serial is an investigative journalism podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, narrating a nonfiction story over multiple episodes. The series was co-created and is co-produced by Koenig and Julie Snyder and developed by This American Life; as of July 2020, it is owned by The New York Times. Season 1 investigated the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee (Hangul ...
A lead paragraph (sometimes shortened to lead; in the United States sometimes spelled lede) is the opening paragraph of an article, book chapter, or other written work that summarizes its main ideas. [1] Styles vary widely among the different types and genres of publications, from journalistic news-style leads to a more encyclopaedic variety.
The Times ' s longest-running podcast is The Book Review Podcast, [296] debuting as Inside The New York Times Book Review in April 2006. [297] The New York Times ' s defining podcast is The Daily, [295] a daily news podcast hosted by Michael Barbaro and, since March 2022, Sabrina Tavernise. [298] The podcast debuted on February 1, 2017. [299]
Ferlinghetti was born on March 24, 1919, in Yonkers, New York. [5] Shortly before his birth, his father, Carlo, a native of Brescia, died of a heart attack; [2] and his mother, Clemence Albertine (née Mendes-Monsanto), of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish descent, was committed to a mental hospital shortly after.
Doctor Who. 1974. [6] "The Chase is on!" Bradley Walsh. The Chase. 2009. "Is that your final answer?" Chris Tarrant.
Robert Madison Evans (born March 22, 1988) [1] is an American author, journalist, and podcast host who has reported on global conflicts and online extremism.A former editor at the humor website Cracked.com, Evans now writes for the investigative journalism outlet Bellingcat while working on several podcasts, including Behind the Bastards, Behind the Police, Behind the Insurrections, It Could ...