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Picture yourself in a rapid train and before your gaze, scenes waltz away, revealing mere snippets of the world outside. Falling into a trance, you attempt to get hold of your thoughts, reaching for the Rasa, yet it slips away like sand. This is exactly what Jon Olav Fosse reads like, similar to a mental battleground where thoughts fight for attention, guided by what he calls “Langsam Prosa” – a deliberate embrace of unhurried, slow prose. And in words which form an intimate and unique connection to the reader.…

The Norwegian author Jon Fosse, winner of this year’s Nobel prize in literature, has said that his first books were “quite poorly reviewed” and that if he had listened to critics, he would have stopped writing 40 years ago.Fosse, whose works include the Septology series of novels, Aliss at the Fire, Melancholy and A Shining, was awarded the Nobel prize in October “for his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable”.Delivering his laureate speech on Thursday afternoon, he also said that there were “many…

Jon Rahm of Spain celebrates making a putt for birdie on the 18th green during the final round of the 2021 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course (South Course) on June 20, 2021 in San Diego, California.Sean M. Haffey | Getty Images Sport | Getty ImagesGolf superstar Jon Rahm is gearing up to leave the PGA Tour for the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.Rahm, who won the Masters in April and is ranked no. 3 in the world, could announce the deal as soon…

Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal, Jimmy Kimmel, Tyler Perry, George Clooney, Jon Stewart, Bob Iger and Quinta Brunson are among those remembering sitcom great and TV legend Norman Lear, who died Tuesday at the age of 101. The six-time Emmy-winning writer-producer behind such classic TV shows as All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, Sanford & Son and One Day at a Time died at his home in Los Angeles surrounded by family. Crystal paid tribute to his friend of almost 50 years, sharing a…

Avatar 3 is still more than two years away, and while we do know a bit about the film, as far as where on Pandora it will be set, and a few of the new actors joining the Avatar 3 cast, we don’t know what the movie will actually be called. The third Avatar movie doesn’t have an official title, and the one title that had been previously rumored has now been unequivocally shot down, which is probably a good thing.A few years back a list of titles for all the Avatar sequels got leaked, and James Cameron eventually confirmed…

O ne has two degrees from Juilliard, and the other went straight from the streets of Atlanta to the studio, where he helped invent trap as we know it. They come from wildly different musical worlds, but Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane found plenty of common ground when they came together for an onstage discussion at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn as part of Rolling Stone’s first-ever Musicians on Musicians live event. Earlier that same day, Batiste scored five Grammy nominations for his latest album, World Music…

On November 21st, 2021, Jon Batiste found out that he had been nominated for 11 Grammys, ranging from Best Contemporary Classical Composition to Best Improvised Jazz Solo; his most recent work, the roots-to-R&B melting pot We Are, was up for the Best Album of the Year award. He was six years into his tenure as the bandleader for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, his musical collective Stay Human was gigging and touring on the regular, and he’d won an Oscar for co-writing the score for the Pixar movie Soul. The…

Julia Armfield and Jon Ransom have won this year’s Polari prizes for books that explore LGBTQ+ experiences – both with novels that look at water and the sea.Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield.Ransom won the £1,000 Polari first book prize for The Whale Tattoo, while Armfield’s Our Wives Under the Sea was named winner of the overall prize, which comes with a cash award of £2,000.Ransom and Armfield were announced as the winners at a ceremony at the British Library on Friday evening. “In their different ways, both of…

Jon Batiste has shared a stunning new ballad of enduring love, “It Never Went Away,” written for a new documentary, American Symphony, about Batiste and his partner, the author-artist, Suleika Jaoaud. The film, directed by Matthew Heineman, follows Batiste and Jaouad over a tumultuous year in their life as Batiste composes his first symphony and Jaouad undergoes treatment for lung cancer. “It Never Went Away”  — which Batiste co-wrote with Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson (who’s also collaborated with artists from…

The past month hasn’t given Jon Minadeo II much to be thankful for. But detractors of the man who bills himself as “AMERICAS #1 ANTI SEMITE” have certainly been celebrating a No-Nazi November. Minadeo, 40, runs an antisemitic hate group called the Goyim Defense League — its name and acronym serving as ugly sendups of the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL. After a headline-making summer, Minadeo has had run of bad luck. The meme-savvy neo-Nazi has spent the past month in jail on a littering charge. While he’s been in…