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M John Harrison, 81, has won the Booker Prize for The End of Everything, a postapocalyptic novel set on the Kent coast. He is the prize’s oldest winner and the first from the science-fiction world, after decades of arguing that good SciFi is literary fiction (The Guardian).
A Desert Storm memorial opened last month just north of the Lincoln Memorial, and a Global War on Terrorism memorial is planned next to it. Philip Kennicott, the Post’s architecture critic, says a landscape meant to symbolize reconciliation after the Civil War is filling up with war (The Washington Post).
Near Moab, Utah, someone carved “Meru” and “Craig W” into rock art about 1,500 years old. Scrubbing the names off could destroy the images underneath (Outside).
Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles’s flagship nonprofit theater, booked a nonunion tour of Music Man, and the paper’s critic called it “community-theater-level.” Artistic director Snehal Desai says union tours had mostly gone to the commercial Pantages (Los Angeles Times).
Skydance, new owner of Warner Bros., has promised investors $6 billion in cuts. CEO David Ellison also told them that “in a world of AI slop,” handcrafted storytelling will command a premium (Los Angeles Times).
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