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A blurb is a short promotional piece accompanying a piece of creative work. It may be written by the author or publisher or quote praise from others. It may be written by the author or publisher or quote praise from others.
The word "blurb", meaning a short description of a book, film, or other product written for promotional purposes, was coined by Burgess in 1906, in attributing the dust jacket of his book, Are You a Bromide?, to a "Miss Belinda Blurb" depicted "in the act of blurbing". His definition of "blurb" is "a flamboyant advertisement; an inspired ...
Article: Blurb: One person is killed and seven others are injured when a Tesla Cybertruck explodes (pictured) outside of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada, United States. ( Post ) News source(s): The New York Times BBC ABC News Credits:
The short blurb that accompanies each of Weebl's toons simply reads "aaaaaaaaaahahaha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. ahahahaaah ahhhh aaaah." aaaaaaaaaaaaahaha features what appears to be an anthropomorphic strip of bacon dancing along with a naked humanoid creature lacking the top part of a skull with a spoon embedded in its brain.
Sabrina Carpenter wrapped the North American leg of her Short n' Sweet Tour earlier this week, but people are still chatting over some of the most exciting moments of her live shows — including ...
[4] [48] [49] Others again define it as a book with a square-bound spine, even if it is a collection of short strips. [50] Still others have used the term to distance their work from the negative connotations the terms "comic" or "comic book" have for the public, or to give their work an elevated air.
Towards the end of autumn in 1965, he goes to her house to meet up for a date. He is met instead by her older brother of four years, who suffers from memory loss. Waiting for his girlfriend to arrive, the narrator reads aloud to her brother from the final part of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's final short story, "Spinning Gears".
Small Town Horror, by Ronald Malfi. The title of Malfi’s latest novel sets expectations of Stephen King or Norman Rockwell’s Americana. It turns out to be much stranger than that.