Linda Svendsen (she/her)

‘Heated Rivalry’ Creator Jacob Tierney Sets Netflix Drama About Alexander the Great and Aristotle With Jason Bateman as EP Netflix has given a series order to 'Alexander,' a drama series from 'Heated Rivalry' creator Jacob Tierney about Alexander the Great.

variety.com/2026/tv/news... congratulations, Annabel @ubccrwr.bsky.social

Frederick Wiseman: “…it comes out in the fiddle.”

Film at Lincoln Center | Watch Frederick Wiseman discuss (and work on) his editing process in this insightful clip from Peter Wintonick's 1999 documentary CINÉMA... | Instagram 523 likes, 9 comments - filmlinc on February 13, 2025: "Watch Frederick Wiseman discuss (and work on) his editing process in this insightful clip from Peter Wintonick's 1999 documentary CINÉMA...

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Ezra Klein, NY Times quotes Anand Giridharadas:

Prime time, eh?

Germany has declared war on Russia. Swimming in the afternoon.

—Franz Kafka’s diary, August 2, 1914

Feeling this in Mpls: Teaching poems to H.S. students in the afternoon, delivering food to housebound immigrants in the evening, then coming home to watch “The Office” before bedtime. Surreal.

B.C. billionaire Jim Pattison's Virginia warehouse could become ICE facility | CBC News The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is in talks to buy a Virginia warehouse owned by British Columbia billionaire Jim Pattison and plans to turn it into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC...

🎵Boy-cott Save-On🎵 *Clap clap clapclapclap*

‘A different philosophy of things’: how Solvej Balle got ahead of Groundhog Day’s time Solvej Balle had been planning her time-loop novel for a decade when the Bill Murray comedy beat her to it. Thirty years and five volumes later, it is longlisted for the International Booker

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

A big budget is great but on its own will never produce anything near the entertainment value of a strong creative vision left the fuck alone

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Illustration with a rabbit in a blue jacket pulling a sledge on which another rabbit sits in a pink blanket in a snowy rural scene

"Two Rabbits with a Sled' (1894) illustration by celebrated English author Beatrix Potter
#Womensart ❄️

What is Rob Taylor Reading? - The New Quarterly Digital Edition Rob Taylor talks about his favourite book of 2025 and why it made such an impact. Read More!

In which I talk a little about my favourite book of the year, @jobitek.bsky.social's "We, the Kindling."

Thank you to @thenewquarterly.bsky.social for the opportunity:

Want to write a half-hour TV series titled Therapy Dog Hotel and then go live in it 🐶

PLUR1BUS is something we haven't seen in some time on TV: dangerous science fiction. A real think piece. Takes the question played around with in Asmov's GREEN PATCHES, ANNIHILATION, and even SEA OF RUST, to its most interesting conclusion: What if individualism is the biggest threat to world peace?

Vancouver’s Historic Park Theatre To Reopen With New Owners & High-Profile Financial Investors Including Sean Baker, Finn Wolfhard, Osgood Perkins & Mike Flanagan Sean Baker, Finn Wolfhard, Osgood Perkins, and Mike Flanagan are among the financial backers.

This is awesome!!! deadline.com/2025/10/park...

A monthly movie gathering at UBC curated by Nalo Hopkinson and Whitney French launches its first film “Slash/Back” on OCT 31 at 2 PM. 🎬🍿Free popcorn & drinks. All are welcome.

🗓 Friday, October 31
⏰ 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
📍Buchanan Tower, Room 225
🎟 Free

RSVP: creativewriting.ubc.ca/events/event...

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Mazel Tov! How wonderful❤️❤️

Noted

Venezuelan makeup artist returns home, describes torture during El Salvador detention A makeup artist who became the face of more than 250 Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison arrived home to his family on Wednesday after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death."

Andry & the 252 other men sent, without due process, to a torture prison in El Salvador feels like the epitome—the soul, moral center, & quintessence—of this administration. I will never forget it or him.

Also, if you don’t know the definition of grace, now you do.

www.reuters.com/business/med...

Thank you to the corporations who support Vancouver Pride ❤️

The Toronto Star has a superb and complex article by Linda Svendsen reflecting on Alice Monro reacting to her fiction. It's fascinating reading but, alas, behind a pay wall. If you already subscribe to the Star, or don't mind subscribing, you might look it up.

Thank you, Keith. I’ve posted it on my site along with the powerful essay by @sydhegele.bsky.social

My fiction left Alice Munro shaking. Her daughter’s reality did the same to me I wasn't able to confront my abusers — until now.

www.thestar.com/opinion/my-f... Thank you Andrea Robin Skinner and siblings for your candour.Thank you @debdundas.bsky.social and the Star team for your guidance. And @sydhegele.bsky.social let’s talk

Andrea Skinner’s story helped me transform shame into solidarity I have witnessed the power of storytelling to save lives

Thank you, Sydney and Andrea www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The UBC School of Creative Writing invites applications for a full-time Lecturer position in Writing for Screen, with a likely start date of September 1, 2025. Apply by July 15, 2025. Read the full job description: creativewriting.ubc.ca/about/job-op...

What is happening in Gaza is an injury to our collective conscience. We must be allowed to speak out Silence means we can neither confront nor mourn what is going on.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Hundreds rallying at Supreme Court demand Trump return disappeared gay asylum-seeker Andry Hernández Romero They rallied to bring the 31-year-old makeup artist back from CECOT in El Salvador.

Andry Hernãndez Romero. Proof of life. Due process www.advocate.com/news/hundred...

Opinion | My Daughter Was at the Center of the Supreme Court Case on Trans Care. Our Hearts Are Broken.

My Daughter Was at the Center of the Supreme Court Case on Trans Care. Our Hearts Are Broken. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...