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The One Episode of Season 3 of Good Omens Is Here, and I Want to Know Why
I mean, I know why. It’s because of money, but I still want to know why. I say that as someone who literally watched the first season of Good Omens once a year since its 2019 release, up until the second season came out. Just to catch you up, season three of the popular show has been released as a single, 90-minute episode as a compromising response to Neil Gaiman being accused of sexual misconduct by several women. On the one hand, I understand there had already been a lot of work put into the third season by the cast and crew by the time the allegations came out. On the other hand, Gaiman has been a part of each season’s screenwriting, including the third season, even though he and his production company are no longer involved with the show. I don’t believe “separating the art from the artist” is a real thing, and I seriously doubt an entire season condensed into 1.5 hours will be good. Sounds like a hot mess all around.
New GODFATHER Book to Be Published by Random House
Looks like Random House made Adriana Trigiani an offer she couldn’t refuse. The author of 2025’s bestselling The View From Lake Como and 19 other books is the author of Connie, a new Godfather novel. Trigiani collaborated with the Mario Puzo estate to write Connie, a reimagining of Puzo’s 1969 classic The Godfather that centers the perspective of Don Vito Corleone’s daughter. Mario Puzo’s son and executor of his estate revealed that Vito Corleone’s character was actually based on his grandmother, which makes me view this new book as an opportunity to sort of course correct and offer a more balanced and true-to-life representation of women. It reminds me of how there have been a lot of books, especially mythology retellings, that have come out in the last few years that have given voice to previously voiceless or maligned women.
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Rebecca Yarros’s Empyrean Box Set Is on Sale Following News of the Series Adaptation
The upcoming Empyrean series, which boasts Michael B. Jordan as one of its producers, was just announced, and there’s already a box set sale on Amazon. The limited-time offer includes hardcover editions of all three books in the series for $73, which really is a deal considering how one hardcover will run you at least $30 these days. If you’ve been curious about the hype surrounding the dragon-filled romantasy, the sale seems like a perfect opportunity to learn about Violet Sorrengail as she fights for her life at Basgiath War College.
In an age of artificial intelligence, it has become increasingly difficult to determine which pieces of art have been artificially generated, especially when the very process that trained the technologies to generate such art involved the theft of existing work by existing artists. With the rise of AI in recent years, it’s easy to think that now is the only time that the general public has been fooled by fake art. But that is far from the case. Hoaxes, more specifically literary hoaxes, have been around for centuries. And no such hoax was more influential in Australian literary culture than that of Ern Malley.
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