Month: September 2022

Literary Titan Gold Book Award October 2022

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Literary Titan Gold Book Award

The Literary Titan Book Awards are awarded to books that have astounded and amazed us with unique writing styles, vivid worlds, complex characters, and original ideas. These books deserve extraordinary praise and we are proud to acknowledge the hard work, dedication, and writing talent of these brilliant authors.

Gold Award Recipients

Captive Attraction by Patricia Crumpler

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Original source: https://literarytitan.com/2022/09/30/literary-titan-gold-book-award-october-2022/

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The Specter of Our Virtual Future

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In October 2021, when Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would now be called Meta and its business interests would be pivoting to the metaverse, there was almost universal confusion: most observers had no idea what he was talking about, and for good reason. The metaverse does not exist. Born of science fiction and blending virtual […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/10/20/the-specter-of-our-virtual-future-the-metaverse-matthew-ball/

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A Fireball from the Sands

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One November day in the British Museum in London 150 years ago, a man called George Smith jumped up from the desk at which he had been working and—to the astonishment of onlookers in that hushed space of learning—“rushed about the room in a great state of excitement,” pulling off articles of clothing as he […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/10/20/a-fireball-from-the-sands-gilgamesh/

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Lucky Guy

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It’s a hallmark of countless films about the mafia: the craving for respectability, the yearning for legitimacy, the desire to go clean. The ur-scene is from The Godfather, when Don Corleone tells his youngest son and heir apparent, “I never wanted this for you,” and rattles off the jobs he’d been hoping Michael might hold […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/10/20/lucky-guy-breaking-history-jared-kushner/

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Emerson & His ‘Big Brethren’

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With the exception of Herman Melville, nineteenth-century American writers are better known for staying home than for venturing to exotic locales. Henry David Thoreau boasted that he had “travelled a good deal in Concord.” A move around the corner in Amherst, a distance of half a mile, left Emily Dickinson with “a kind of gone-to-Kansas […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/10/20/emerson-his-big-brethren-christopher-benfey/

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