When Rivers received a surprise letter from DeLillo, it encouraged him to set the author’s one-act play in an adult-free, postapocalyptic world
Nine-year-old girls reciting the gnomic prose of Don DeL…
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6 months ago
The pub that changed me: ‘It was a refuge from teenage pressures – and a portal to excitement’ ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
At the Faversham there was thumping house music, projections of lava lamp bubbles, and bottles of K Cider. Rave culture had hit Leeds, and my friends and I plunged in
I can mark out stages in my life …
7 months ago
Brock Purdy throws career-high five touchdowns as 49ers roll over Colts ○
Purdy throws career-high five TD passes
McCaffrey stars again in versatile role
Rivers’ return can’t halt Colts’ slide
Brock Purdy threw a career-high five touchdown passes and Dee Winters returned an i…
‘Dadgummit, let’s freaking go’: 44-year-old grandfather Rivers could start for Colts ⊖⊖
Injuries have ravaged Colts quarterbacks
Rivers last played in NFL in 2020
The Indianapolis Colts have not ruled out starting Philip Rivers at quarterback after luring the grandfather out of retirement…
9 months ago
Limp Bizkit announces death of bassist Sam Rivers aged 48 ⊖⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Nu-metal group says Rivers ‘brought a light and a rhythm that could never be replaced’
Sam Rivers, the bassist and backing vocalist of the US nu-metal group Limp Bizkit, has died at the age of 48, the…
10 months ago
‘Literature can be a form of resistance’: Lea Ypi talks to Elif Shafak about writing in the age of demagogues ○
The Albanian author of Free and Turkish novelist discuss the rise of populism, censorship – and how today’s conflicts all come from the unresolved trauma of the past
Lea Ypi’s prize-winning memoir, Fr…
11 months ago
Joan Rivers convinced me to pursue stand-up two weeks before she died, comedian Cally Beaton reveals on new Mail podcast ○
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In conversation with Mail columnist Bryony Gordon, Beaton, 56, said she credits Rivers with inspiring her 'midlife reinvention', giving her the confidence to do her first ever stand-up gig.
13 months ago
Bogancloch review – the further adventures of a Scottish hermit in Ben River’s beguiling essay ○
Rivers returns to document a past subject, Jake Williams, whose reclusive Scottish forest existence is fascinating but defies explanation
Film-maker Ben Rivers, one of the doyens of Britain’s small bu…
14 months ago
Pictured: Rocker religious studies teacher, 38, who was banned from the classroom after swigging cans of cider and reeking of alcohol at school ○
Jon Downs, 38, who also is a member of a band called Rivers of Rome, has been barred from the classroom indefinitely. The decision came after he confessed to consuming alcohol at school.
15 months ago
In brief: The Homemade God; Mythica; There Are Rivers in the Sky – review ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Long-buried truths leave siblings reeling when their father dies; a fascinating reclamation of Homer’s forgotten women; and still waters run deep in a centuries-spanning novel
Rachel Joyce
Doubleday, £…