Actually, the writer Raymond Carver never cared for the word “Minimalism” as the way to describe his taut, tight-lipped short stories. But that was the term they came to be known by in the late 1970s and ’80s, when he was at the height of his influence in American fiction. In this week’s Time I took a detour from my art and architecture …
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Corporate Press Release Theater: NBC to Get Emmys Out of the Way Early
NBC has set the date for next year’s Emmy Awards early, in more ways than one. Nine months in advance, it’s announcing a date—of Sunday, August 29. NBC (which airs football on Sundays during the NFL season) notes, a bit defensively, that when it aired the Emmys in August 2006, it “was the highest-rated entertainment program of that …
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The Prisoner Finale: Now It Can Be Told
Spoilers for the finale of AMC’s The Prisoner, which if you cared enough about you have already watched but remain spoilers nonetheless, after the jump:
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The Morning After: Turn This Mothership Out
Watching the abbreviated launch of V is a strange experience: the show will air only four episodes (one more is left) before vanishing to reappear in midseason, and when it returns, it will have a new showrunner, so it’s anyone’s guess how the series will be retooled. It’s less like a TV series than notes toward a TV series, with the …
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Sons of Anarchy Watch: Getting the Gang Back Together
Quick spoilers for last night’s Sons of Anarchy coming up after the jump: