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£50,000 Reader-Led Writing Prize launched | books

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Awards and prizes,Culture,UK news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Publishing platform Libraro, in partnership with Hachette UK, has launched a new £50,000 writing prize that allows readers to choose a shortlist of manuscripts submitted – and rewards them with cash prizes for their participation.The Liberaro Prize aims to "overcome the traditional barriers of the book industry," according to organizers. Writers upload full manuscripts to the Libraro platform, where readers support their favorite entries to create a shortlist of six books.It is open to adult and teen novels written…

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Matt Damon is right: phones + Netflix mean we’re now in the age of cinema film

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Matt Damon,Netflix ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MAt Damon has a new movie, a $100 million cop thriller co-starring Ben Affleck called The Rip. It's currently the most watched movie on Netflix, because it's a Netflix movie. So how does Damon choose to promote his new movie on Netflix? By putting in Netflix.During an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience, Damon went to great lengths to describe the differences between going to see a movie in theaters and watching it on TV. "I always say it's like…

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‘He’s a little bit paranoid’: Stellan Skarsgård slams Trump’s ‘criminal’ actions in Greenland | film

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Stellan Skarsgård,Culture,Donald Trump,Greenland,Björk,Denmark 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Actor Stellan Skarsgård criticized the US President's attempts to annex Greenland, describing him as "a megalomaniacal little man."Speaking at the European Film Awards over the weekend, the actor - who is the favorite to win a supporting actor Oscar for his role in Sentimental Value - described Donald Trump's actions as "ridiculous"."It's ridiculous, isn't it?" He told Artur Zaborski, of Polish outlet Interia. “He's a little man who's gone crazy, trying to take over the world,” said Skarsgård, who cited…

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Sex, Death, and Parrots: Julian Barnes’ Best Novels – Ranked! | books

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💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Julian Barnes,Culture,Fiction 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 10 Duffy (1980)Duffy is the first in a series of crime novels about a bisexual private eye that Barnes published under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. It was published in the same year as Barnes' first novel, Metroland, but when it took seven years to write, it took 10 days. This is not what it appears: this "refreshingly sordid" (as Barnes' friend Martin Amis put it) crime story is deceptively well-written, with passages that display all of Barnes' perceptiveness and wit.…

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How a Norwegian weather missile almost sparked a nuclear war

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🚀 Read this trending post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: As we all know by now, this alarming series of events did not end in disaster. For all the mounting tension, the story ended as a lighthearted feature at the end of that evening's late news program, complete with Tom Lehrer's darkly comic song "We'll All Go Together When We Go" ("...all saturated with a bright glow").Global currency markets stumbled as politicians, military leaders and journalists spent a frantic hour searching for information.Jeremy Paxman, presenter of BBC Newsnight, noted: “Before we go, we should announce…

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How Stevie Wonder’s uplifting song changed the United States

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: “Stevie Wonder can write almost any kind of song,” music critic and documentary filmmaker Nelson George tells the BBC. “As part of his mix of songs and melodies, he was always able to write songs about social injustice, especially happy string melodies that were easy to sing,” he adds. George compares Happy Birthday - a big, cheerful song - to another of Wonder's songs, Ain't It Lovely. "For a whole bunch of people who grew up in the last 40 years, Merry Christmas has…

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Be More Bird review by Candida Meyrick – Self-help that’s less for birds than parroting tired clichés | Science and nature books

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Science and nature books,Autobiography and memoir,Books,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn July 2020, Candida Merrick, known as novelist Candida Clarke, became the owner of Sophia Houdini's Whitewing, known as Bird. Bird is a Harris's hawk, a feathered killing machine that hunts the rich Dorset fields on the edge of the New Forest. She can take down a rabbit but much prefers a pheasant. She recently was observing the peacocks the Merricks keep on their property.Merrick's starting point in this bewildering book is that Bird has a…

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Remember the hedgehog flavour? Moon cheese? The strangest, coolest and most amazing crunchy packet designs ever | art

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Snacks,Art and design,Culture,Food 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WCan you eat Smoked Spider Flavor Monster Munch? How about a crispy Bovril cake baked to celebrate the release of Back to the Future? Then there's the hedgehog flavor — and even a Wallace and Gromit corn snack designed to capture the unique taste of moon cheese, which the duo set out to collect on their "big day out."All of these salty, crunchy and perhaps even delicious snacks are celebrated in UK Crisp Packets 1970-2000, a 140-page compendium that…

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New Golf Ball Finder Army Tricks: Best Podcasts of the Week | TV and radio

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Podcasting 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Choose the weekExplosive liesAlice Levine tells this story of fraud in her usual sarcastic way. We meet Steve, a former copper man who helps his childhood best friend sell his advanced bomb detector, only to end up being arrested by detectives. It's a brilliantly produced story of a hoax that fooled governments and armies, with the action moving from questionable Hong Kong banks to the Iraqi airports where it was installed as a security measure - with potentially deadly…

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TV Tonight: The Game of Thrones Prequel Is Actually a Lot of Fun | television

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Game of Thrones 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Knight of the Seven Kingdoms9pm, Sky AtlanticIf you loved the unexpected pairing of the Hound and Arya in Game of Thrones, this lighter, funnier remake is a lot more fun than the dreary drama of the House of the Dragon. Set 100 years before the events of GoT, and based on a novella by George R.R. Martin, the story follows the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey), a kind and brave fence knight (“like a…

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