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apiece apart spring 2024 | looks (from top) 37 and 45

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BAD NEWS BLAIR

She May Be Llanview’s Resident Bad Girl, But ONE LIFE TO LIVE’s Blair Just Wants To Be Loved

In 1991, a conniving woman by the name of Blair Daimler (now Cramer) blew into Llanview. Mia Korf originated the role but when the Amerasian left the show in 1993, blonde-haired, green-eyed Kassie DePaiva took over. “Blair is perfectly dysfunctional,” laughs DePaiva. “She feels everything deeply, whether it’s happiness, anger, lust, jealousy, fear… I love that she’s a bitch with a lot of heart.” Here, in character, DePaiva remembers the ups and (mostly) downs of Blair’s life.

1993

“Viki and Sloan hunted me down because they needed me to verify something for his book on Victor Lord - they wanted to know if Dorian had admitted killing Victor,” recalls DePaiva. “They found me down in Miami with my boys.” Blair had kids? “I was hanging out with some young boy toys,” she laughs.

1994

As soon as Blair returned to Llanview, she began blackmailing Dorian (again) and hitting on Max (again). “I pursued Max in every way I could,” she grins.

Around this time, The Wild Rose Club casino opened, and Max became addicted to gambling. While Cord and Luna tried to break his bad habit, Blair encouraged it. “It was a way for me to spend time with him,” she explains. “Max was addicted to gambling and I was addicted to him.” One night, Luna kicked Max out. Feeling rejected, Max turned to Blair. “We went to Atlantic City and hooked up with RJ, who was a loan shark,” she explains. “Everything tailspinned from there. I became more obsessive and possessive as Max’s gambling addiction became worse.”

After their escapade, Max took his son, Al, to his ranch in Texas and Blair tagged along. But soon after, Luna arrived to patch things up. Cord kidnapped Blair and took her to Asa’s nearby ranch so that his friends could reconcile. With Blair out of the picture, Max, Luna and Al went to the local fair, but Blair escaped from Cord and took off in his truck. “I was driving to the fair to find Max,” explains the actress. “I swerved to miss Al and accidentally hit Luna instead.” Luna was paralyzed and Max broke things off with a distraught Blair.

“I attempted suicide by turning up the gas stove in my apartment,” she explains. Luckily, Cord found her passed out and stood by her while she recovered. “I finally realized that I was addicted to Max and started up a relationship with Cord because he was nice and safe.” Unfortunately, Blair found herself playing second fiddle to Tina and finally got fed up. “Around this time, I ran into Todd at Rodi’s,” she remembers. “Initially, I didn’t know who he was. We commiserated about what losers we were.”

That is, until Blair dropped her purse and spotted the prison I.D. bracelet that Todd was wearing around his ankle. “At that point, I thought, ‘Stay away from me.’” But the two lost souls kept running into one another, and Blair finally realized that Cord was never going to put her first. “On Christmas, I went over to Todd’s and offered myself to him as a Christmas gift,” she chuckles. The couple had sex and it was the beginning of what seemed to be a beautiful relationship.

1995

When Blair figured out that Todd was the heir to the Lord fortune, the money-hungry vixen set out to land him. “I tricked Todd into getting married by faking a pregnancy,” she admits. The couple wed on a beach in Key West.

Several weeks after the nuptials, Tina revealed to Todd that he was her brother and Todd inherited 27.8 million. “After Tina warned Todd that I was a gold digger, he made me take a pregnancy test,” the actress says. “I thought for sure I wasn’t pregnant but I was. It was hilarious!”

Sadly, when Blair was mugged a few weeks later, she lost the baby. “Those were really tough scenes,” DePaiva reveals. “Blair wanted a baby; so did Todd. It was the first thing that she would have had on her own.”

When Max informed Todd that Blair had originally lied about being pregnant, Todd lost it. “He almost raped me,” says DePaiva. Blair stopped Todd by reminding him of his past rape of Marty but the marriage was over. “We had lost the baby and that was a reason for us not to be together.” Todd filed for a divorce.

But Blair soon discovered that she was pregnant - again. “Everybody thought I was lying this time for sure,” laughs DePaiva. “But I really was pregnant. I contemplated not having the baby, until it brought Todd and me back together.” The couple remarried at St. James church. “We were really, really happy,” she smiles. Before they could go on a honeymoon, Todd decided that he wanted to make amends with Marty and flew to Ireland. “It was always about Marty,” DePaiva sighs. “I thought the only reason that Todd loved me was because I looked like her.” In Ireland, Todd was mistaken for Patrick, shot and presumed dead. A bitter Blair blamed Marty for Todd’s “death.”

1996

Luckily, baby Starr filled the void in Blair’s life. After a run-in with Marty, an enraged Blair cut off her hair (because she didn’t want to look like Marty), then went into labor - but gave birth prematurely.

Soon afterward, Blair began chasing Patrick. “Marty took my man away so I wanted to take away hers,” she says. “At first, I just wanted to get back at Marty. Then, I really started to like Patrick.” When Blair finally got the poet to sleep with her, Todd “returned from the dead” and spied their sexual encounter. Figuring that Blair never mourned his death, Todd kidnapped Starr. Eventually, he returned the baby, and Blair and Todd were about to reconcile. But Blair learned that she was pregnant - yet again - this time, with Patrick’s child. “That ruined everything,” the actress groans.

1997

Blair and Todd remained at odds. Though Todd filed for custody of Starr, the judge awarded temporary custody to Blair. Starr became ill with aplastic anemia and was in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. Of course, Starr’s best bone marrow match would have been Blair and Patrick’s unborn child.

“Then we had the car accident,” says DePaiva. On a rainy night, Blair and Patrick were on their way home from the hospital when a sobbing Kelly (who had just been dumped by Joey) ran their car off the road. “I lost the baby and thought I had lost Starr too because of the accident. Those scenes were very difficult because I was pregnant in real life,” she confides. “Looking back, I wish I’d never had to play it.” After the accident, Alex donated bone marrow to save Starr’s life. Meanwhile, Blair was hospitalized.

“I was in a coma and Todd hooked up with Téa to betray me yet again!” she exclaims. “While I was in a coma, he divorced me and took custody of my daughter.” But Blair fought back and after a speedy recovery, vowed to win Starr. Unfortunately, on the night before the custody hearing, something went terribly wrong. “Téa provoked me to the point that I pushed her out a window so I lost custody because of that,” DePaiva says.

1998

Mel and Cassie began looking into the Cramer family’s history of mental illness. DePaiva notes that Blair and her mentally ill mother, Addie, have a very loving relationship. “Starr and Addie are the two people who Blair would do anything for.”

While working to sink her claws into billionaire Ian Armitage - she thought his money would help in her fight to win Starr back - Blair hooked up with Max as part of a plan to double-cross Todd and give Ian control of The Sun. “My relationship with Max since then has continued as a love-hate relationship,” explains DePaiva, adding that she loves working with her real life hubby.

Blair also found herself working with Todd again when he re-hired her as a reporter for The Sun. “I think the Todd/Blair relationship is my favorite storyline because it’s so multifaceted,” she says.

Slowly, Blair and Max started to fall in love again, until she discovered that Max was working for Asa and using her to obtain incriminating information about Todd. Max apologized profusely and even proposed, but Sam entered the picture. “I just want to be loved - but honestly!” DePaiva cries, in character.

Today, Blair is torn between two men: she cares for Sam but is being blackmailed by Max, who knows that Blair knows Todd is faking his alternate personalities. And if the truth comes out about Todd, Starr will lose her father because Todd will be sent to jail. “I think Blair wants to choose the high road, but I don’t think she’ll ever be able to do it,” says DePaiva. “Blair will probably be the ultimate loser and get screwed over like she always does.”

Soap Opera Digest (1998)

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15 Highly Anticipated Book-to-Screen Adaptations Coming in 2023 

[via BookBub Blog]

Get your popcorn ready for a wealth of exciting book-to-screen adaptations coming in 2023!

The Mayfair Witches Series by Anne Rice (on AMC starting Jan. 5)

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay (in theaters Feb. 5)

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (in theaters Apr. 28)

Text for You by Sofie Cramer (in theaters May 12)

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (in theaters May 2023)

American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (in theaters July 21)

Dune: Part Two by Frank Herbert (in theaters November 3)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (Nov. 17)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (December 20)

Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn (on Netflix, release date TBA)

The Three-Body Problem Series by Cixin Liu (on Netflix, release date TBA)

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (on Amazon Prime, release date TBA)

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (on Apple TV+, release date TBA)

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave (on Amazon Prime, release date TBA)

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo (on Showtime, release date TBA)

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Birthdays 7.3

Beer Birthdays

Tom Kehoe (1964)

Christian Ettinger (1973)

Max Finance (1985)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Dave Barry; writer, humorist (1947)

M.F.K. Fisher; writer (1908)

Mississippi John Hurt; blues singer (1893)

Franz Kafka; Czech writer (1883)

Tom Stoppard; playwright (1937)

Famous Birthdays

Robert Adam; Scottish architect (1728)

Amalia Aguilar; Cuban-Mexican film actress and dancer (1924)

Rae Allen; actress, singer, and director (1926)

Evelyn Anthony; English author (1928)

Paul Barrere; rock guitarist (1948)

Sándor Bortnyik; Hungarian painter (1893)

Laura Branigan; rock singer (1957)

Betty Buckley; actor (1947)

Vince Clarke; English singer-songwriter, keyboard player (1960)

George M. Cohan; actor, singer, songwriter (1878)

Michael Cole; actor (1945)

Johnny Coles, American trumpeter (1926)

John Singleton Copley; artist (1738)

Richard Cramer; actor (1889)

Tom Cruise; actor (1962)

William Henry Davies; Welsh poet and writer (1871)

Lisa De Leeuw; adult actress (1958)

Jesse Douglas; mathematician (1897)

Pete Fountain; clarinetist (1930)

Andy Fraser; English singer-songwriter and bass player (1952)

Thomas Gibson; actor (1962)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman; sociologist, writer, feminist (1860)

Ramón Gómez de la Serna; Spanish author and playwright (1888)

Albert Gottschalk; Danish painter (1866)

Larry "Bozo the Clown" Harmon; clown (1925)

Charlie Higson; English actor, singer (1958)

Philip Jamison; artist (1925)

Leos Janacek; Czech composer (1854)

Elle King; singer, songwriter, and actress (1989)

Alfred Korzybski; Polish-American mathematician (1879)

Johnny Lee; singer and guitarist (1946)

Doris Lloyd; English actress (1896)

Nicholas Maxwell; English philosopher (1937)

Didier Mouron; Swiss-Canadian painter (1958)

Olivia Munn; actor, comedian (1980)

Connie Nielsen; Danish-American actor (1965)

Tim O'Connor; actor (1927)

Carla Olson; singer-songwriter (1952)

Baard Owe; Norwegian-Danish actor (1936)

Eddy Paape, Belgian illustrator (1920)

Susan Penhaligon; English actress (1949)

Stephen Pearcy; singer-songwriter, and guitarist (1959)

Ralph Barton Perry; philosopher (1876)

Susan Peters; actress (1921)

Jethro Pugh; Dallas Cowboys DT (1944)

François Reichenbach; French film director (1921)

Ken Russell; English film director (1927)

George Sanders; Russian-born British actor (1906)

Richard Mellon Scaife; businessman (1932)

Harrison Schmitt; geologist, astronaut (1935)

Ruth Crawford Seeger; composer (1901)

Michael Shea; author (1946)

Kurtwood Smith; actor (1943)

Yeardley Smith; actor (1964)

Jan Smithers; actor (1949)

Poly Styrene; British musician (1957)

Kenzie Taylor; adult actress (1990)

Tommy Tedesco; guitarist (1930)

Norman E. Thagard; astronaut (1943)

Aaron Tippin; singer-songwriter, guitarist (1958)

Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo; Belgian artist (1922)

John Verity,; English guitarist (1949)

Johnnie Wilder, Jr.; R&B/funk singer (1949)

Montel Williams; television host (1956)

Patrick Wilson; actor (1973)

Edward Young; English poet, dramatist (1683)

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Antonio Velardo shares: Judge Rebukes New York City on Handling of Jails as Mayor Protests by Jonah E. Bromwich, Benjamin Weiser and Maria Cramer

By Jonah E. Bromwich, Benjamin Weiser and Maria Cramer The comments from Judge Laura Taylor Swain came after the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan called for the jails to be taken over by an outside authority. Published: July 18, 2023 at 03:36PM from NYT New York https://ift.tt/z1GmL3H via IFTTT

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EXISTEM CRIANÇAS VIVENDO EM MARTE AGORA!

EXISTEM CRIANÇAS VIVENDO EM MARTE AGORA!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SSQyHL8Y3MA A PROVA QUE SUA VIDA É UMA MENTIRA! EXISTEM CRIANÇAS VIVENDO EM MARTE AGORA! – Carol Capel Conheça a história de Laura Eisenhower (bisneta do ex-presidente americano Eisenhower) e Randy Cramer, duas crianças recrutadas para trabalhar em programas espaciais secretos! Marteze-se: Eles Vivem, Brincadeiras ao ar livre, O Mundo Vegetal e as constelações,…

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Hai! I know no one probably asked for this but I feel like doing it. A list of Victoria grandkids (order: line of succession)

Crown Princess Laura

2nd - Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Henford

3rd - Princess Alyssa

4th - Prince Oliver, Duke of Ward

5th - Prince Arthur, Duke of Borne

Princess Juliette, Duchess of Kensington

7th - Princess Colette, Marchioness of Kensington

8th - Prince Christopher, Earl of Kensington

9th - Prince Benjiman, Viscount of Kensington

10th Princess Chloe

Princess Anastasia

12th - Prince Javier

13th - Prince Desmond

14th - Princess Alexandra

Princess Lilly, The Princess Royal

16th - Prince Eric

17th - Prince Anthony

18th - Princess Anastasia

Prince Charles, Duke of Warborough

20th - Princess Anne

21st - Prince Charles

22nd - Princess Hannah

23rd - Princess Victoria

Prince Maurice, Duke of Lessex & Morrelson

25th - Princess Aurora

26th - Princess Anne

27th - Prince James

28th - Prince Noah

Prince Leo, Duke of Arlington

30th - Princess Eleanor

31th - Princess Tracy

32nd - Princes Victoria

33rd - Prince Leo

Lord Addison, Duke of Cramer

35th - Lady Grace

36th - Lady Victoria

37th - Lady Isabella

38th - Lord Adolfo

Prince Seth, Earl of Ludgrove

40th - Lady Eleanor

41st - Lady Helena

42nd - Lord Maximillian

43rd - Lady Margot

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it’s hard for me to talk about her before rambling a bit so here i go! her name is audrey cramer which is 1). a reference to my favorite actress ( audrey hepburn ) and 2). a reference to one of my favorite families ( the cramer women ) in my favorite soap opera, one life to live. i love ( love ) soaps; passions, all my children, and one life to live were my biggest favs even though passions was stupid most of the time looking back. the deaths of AMC / OLTL still hurt. but hey, general hospital, days, and the cbs soaps are still kicking even if i don’t watch them. the point of bringing this up is that the mini-story in my head with these characters in the sims is basically kind of a...love letter to soaps and the tropes they have ( the romance, the cheating, scandals, the star crossed lovers, the people who die but never stay dead, etc. ) but with a fantasy twist since the town is occupied by fairies, wizards, werewolves, etc.

anyway, audrey. while soaps are an ensemble, pretty much every single one has that one female character that ‘leads’ the show ( all my children had erica kane, one life to live had victora / vicki lord, general hospital still has laura spencer, days of our lives also still has its female lead, marlena evens, etc, etc. ) audrey is the ‘lead’ of [fictional town i haven’t fully decided the name of].

audrey is well... me. her name was literally my middle name back when i first created her back when my brother got me the sims 1 ( side note: i love my big bro. he’s great ). she’s always been black, she’s aways been a writer, and a hopeless romantic who just so happens to be good at things i’m not ( i hate cooking -> audrey ended up going into the professional chef career lmao ). she was basically built off the things young summer liked and did or either aspired to do or get better at. she is, quite literally, my idealized self i guess. ( i think her love interest may or may not have originally been based off this cute hispanic boy i spent all day at the pool with once one summer. did we dramatically look at each other through the gates when he finally had to go home? maybe. i was in love ya’ll!!! )

i literally had a journal in middle school were i wrote out stories between the characters - although looking back on it now, i would probably cringe since most of it would read like a trashy reality show to me ( for context, stuff like flavor of love / i love new york was at its peak back then ) rather than the well crafted soap that 13 year old me envisioned. however, instead of just...throwing all that away, i recently started to build this storyline in my head ( mostly b/c i’m not very fond of the sims 4 and want to find ways to keep myself invested in it ) and revamp parts i didn’t like. basically i asked: how can i make this interesting to me - even if it is, admittedly, self indulgent to my tastes? the answer was to start building a world which is...something i’ve never done before? and it’s still in like super, super infant phases b/c i haven’t been playing ts4 at all but it is something i want to work for my own enjoyment / challenge to myself.

SO. the beginning of the story has always started with audrey returning home for a funeral - her mother’s funeral to be exact. there’s a lot of baggage here due to the fact that 1). her mom is/was easily the most important in town, 2). the cramers, who are also witches, are seen as the ‘pillars’ of the community and thus someone needs to step up and take her mother’s place (i’m still debating on her mom’s new name  / whether i want it to be a soap character reference or not so that’s why i’m not saying a name), and 3). her mother’s death slowly begins to look more and more like a murder than a natural cause of death.

on top of all of this, audrey hasn’t been back home since graduating high school and leaving her HS sweetheart behind due to conflicting desires ( she wants to escape what she is - a witch / half faye via her father - and wants to leave it behind while he takes pride in his family and what he is - a werewolf. ( we all know they’re going to fall in love again but...slow burn baby ). 

audrey vc: can i catch a break here?

there’s also the fact that well...the cramers like all families are dysfunctional. before i touch on her sisters, however, i also have to mention another trope within soap operas. if a character (doesn’t matter if they’re a man or a woman) has multiple children then each child is basically guaranteed to have a different mom / dad  ( if a brother and sister on a soap have the same mom and dad, that’s actually a miracle lol ). that’s how it is with audrey and her sisters, serena and alexendra.

serena. the oldest who was originally the baby - although audrey tends to act more like it. literally gives not a single fuck(tm) about having magical powers and constantly leaves the council on read about becoming the new head now that her mother is dead. she’s single, constantly ready to mingle - in bed. basically fulfills the hot / steamy part of the ‘love in the afternoon’ part of soaps + is a person whose life is a mess and is always into something they probably shouldn’t be in.

alexenda. the baby who, at least back during the ts1 and ts2, was actually the oldest but things change!!! her personality has changed a lot because she used to be the oldest that was a nerd - i admittedly wasn’t invested in her back then as much as i am now. is more of a modern day hipster now who is an artist more than anything else. i’m still fleshing her new personality out so there’s not much here yet.

the momma without a name yet ( might just be marlena b/c while i’ve never been super into days of our lives, the character marlena literally got possessed by the devil twice and that should be honored tbh ). anyway, she dead. has had an antagonist relationship with esperanza kane since forever and may or may not have been sleeping around with her husband. oops. ( esperanza is the mother of christian, audrey’s ex. :))) )

anyway, this isn’t like....a deep plot. i’m very self aware about it. it’s messy and drama filled b/c that’s well...soaps lol.

bonus: they also have pets. the dog is named carly after a character from general hospital that’s always yelling and in people’s faces lol. the brownish cat is the mom’s cat, vicki (named after the ever wise victoria lord), who can speak and acts as an ‘advisor’. audrey’s cat is...victor manning who doesn’t think he’s a cat and would probably try to fight you in the street if he could - that’s what you can expect from a cat named that lol. he loves belly rubs though!!!!

[simple-pretty]

apiece apart fall 2023, look 2

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Save Writing NSW

An open letter to Create NSW and the NSW Minister for the Arts

We, as writers and active members of the literary community, were dismayed by Create NSW’s decision not to grant Writing NSW Multi-Year Organisations Funding in their latest round, despite the fact that Writing NSW was recommended for funding.

This decision demonstrates the ongoing devaluation of literature within the Australian arts funding landscape. We know literature is the most popular artform in the country, with 87% of Australian reading some form of literary work in any given year, yet in this round Create NSW offered only 5.7% of their ongoing funding to literature organisations.

The decision to defund Writing NSW carries a particular sting. Writing NSW is the leading organisation representing writers in a state with a long literary history and one that is home to many of Australia’s leading publishers, writers, literary agents and other core participants in the Australian literary industry.

Writing NSW is an important stepping-stone for writers at the beginning of their careers, providing high quality professional development programs, and it also employs emerging and established writers to deliver and lead these programs. For decades the organisation has provided high-quality courses, seminars, workshops, festivals, events, grants and literary prizes. In putting such programs at risk, Create NSW is jeopardising both an entry point and an ongoing support system for writers.

Macquarie University research shows that the average income of an Australian author from their practice is $12,900. The current economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic makes the situation of writers even more precarious. Writing NSW offers key employment opportunities to writers, through teaching, publication, speaking engagements and both curatorial and judging positions. The removal of these opportunities will mean many writers will not be able to maintain the other income streams that support their writing careers.

The removal of $175,000 from a single source would be catastrophic for any business – not-for-profit or otherwise. For a government funding body to enact such a blunt economic withdrawal in the midst of a global pandemic and without concern for the economic flow-on effect to hundreds of industry professionals is deeply distressing.

We call on Create NSW to reverse this decision and ask them to reveal their future strategies for arts funding and how they plan to rectify the disparity in funding between other funded artforms and literature.

As writers, we will never accept the loss of a vibrant, essential cultural network such as Writing NSW.

What you can do We invite anyone affected by Create NSW’s decision – writers, publishers, literary agents, illustrators, readers alike – to co-sign this letter. You can copy and customise this letter to draft a version from your own point of view on this matter to send to a Member of Parliament.

To co-sign this letter, add your name here: shorturl.at/dERX6

Signatories

Pip Smith, Writer, creative writing teacher Sam Twyford-Moore, Writer and arts administrator Fiona Wright, Writer, editor, critic, reader Gabrielle Tozer, Author, writer, editor Brigid Mullane, Editor Jules Faber, Author, Illustrator Dr Christopher Richardson, Author and academic Liz Ledden, Author, podcaster, book reviewer Kate Tracy Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Writer, reviewer, reader Julie Paine, Writer Nick Tapper, Editor Belinda Castles, Writer and academic Simon Veksner, Writer Amanda Ortlepp, Writer, reader, reviewer, High School English Teacher Bronwyn Birdsall, Writer, editor Robin Riedstra, Writer, reviewer, reader, English teacher Dr Delia Falconer, Writer, critic, academic Robert McDonald, Author, writer, creative writing teacher Dr Kathryn Heyman, Author Wai Chim, Author Kirsten Krauth, Writer, editor Tricia Dearborn, Poet, writer, editor Dr Mireille Juchau, Writer Gail Jones, Writer Dr Jeff Sparrow, Writer, editor, academic Linda Jaivin, Writer, editor, translator Adara Enthaler, Poet, editor, literary arts manager Keighley Bradford, Writer, editor, arts and festival administrator Nicole Priest, Reader and aspiring writer Shamin Fernando, Writer Andrew Pippos, Writer Bianca Nogrady, Writer and journalist James Bradley, Writer Ali Jane Smith, Writer Dr Eleanor Limprecht Idan Ben-Barak, Writer Jennifer Mills, Writer Nicole Hayes, Writer, podcaster Michelle Starr, Writer/journalist Phillipa McGuinness, Writer and publisher Vanessa Berry, Writer and academic Blake Ayshford, Screenwriter Emily Maguire, Writer Sarah Lambert, Screenwriter Anwen Crawford, Writer Sarah Bassiuoni, Screenwriter Jackson Ryan, Writer, journalist, academic Simon Thomsen, Journalist, editor, other wordy stuff Ivy Shih, Writer Miro Bilbrough, Writer, filmmaker, screenwriting teacher, script editor Graham Davidson, Writer, artist, festival director Christos Tsiolkas, Writer JZ Ting, Writer, lawyer Susan Francis, Writer, teacher Suneeta Peres da Costa, Writer Dr Harriet Cunningham, Writer, critic, journalist Adele Dumont, Writer, reader Sheree Strange, Writer, book reviewer, book seller Phil Robinson, Reader Ashleigh Meikle, Reader, writer, book blogger Naomi RIddle, Writer, editor Cathal Gwatkin-Higson, Writer, book seller Hannah Carroll Chapman, Screenwriter Angela Meyer, Writer, editor Steve Blunt, Reader, supporter Ambra Sancin, Writer, arts administrator Michelle Baddiley, Writer, reader, archive producer Dinuka McKenzie, Writer, reader Catherine C. Turner, Writer, reader, freelance editor and publisher, arts worker Hilary Davidson, Writer, poet, academic, reader Dr Eleanor Hogan, Writer Nicola Robinson, Commissioning Editor Kim Wilson, Screenwriter Jane Nicholls, Freelance writer and editor Lisa Kenway, Writer Virginia Peters, Writer Sarah Sasson, Physician-writer and reader Dr Joanna Nell, Writer Laura Clarke Author / Copywriter Nicole Reddy, Screenwriter Anna Downes, Writer Sharon Livingstone, Writer, editor, reader Lily Mulholland, Writer, screenwriter, technical editor Benjamin Dodds, Poet, reviewer, teacher Markus Zusak, Writer Alexandria Burnham, Writer, screenwriter Sam Coley, Writer Marian McGuinness, Writer Selina McGrath, Artist Adeline Teoh Natasha Rai, Writer Catherine Ferrari, Reader Jessica White, Writer & academic Zoe Downing, Writer, reader, creative writing student Amanda Tink, Writer, researcher, reader Lisa Nicol, Children's author, screenwriter, copywriter Aurora Scott, Writer Gillian Polack, Writer, academic Susan Lever, Critic and writer Denise Kirby, Writer Michele Seminara, Poet & editor Meredith Curnow, Publisher, Penguin Random House David Ryding, Arts Manager Catherine Hill Genevieve Buzo, Editor Hugo Wilcken DJ Daniels, Writer Linda Vergnani, Freelance journalist, writer and editor Tony Spencer-Smith, Author, writing trainer & editor Dr Viki Cramer, Freelance writer and editor Petronella McGovern, Author, freelance writer and editor Jacqui Stone, Writer and editor Talia Horwitz, Writer, reader & writing student Sophie Ambrose, Publisher, Penguin Random House Rebecca Starford, Publishing director, KYD; editor and writer David Blumenstein, Writer, artist Rashida Tayabali, Freelance writer Sheila Ngoc Pham, Writer, editor and producer Rosalind Gustafson, Writer Alan Vaarwerk, Editor, Kill Your Darlings Gillian Handley, Editor, journalist, writer Karina Machado Isabelle Yates, Commissioning Editor, Penguin Random House Michelle Barraclough, Writer Natalie Scerra, Writer Melanie Myers, Writer, editor and Creative Writing teacher Emily Lawrence, Aspiring Writer Nicola Aken, Screenwriter Jennifer Nash, Librarian, writer Clare Millar, Writer and editor Kathryn Knight, Editor, Penguin Random House Linda Funnell, Editor, reviewer, tutor, Newtown Review of Books Stacey Clair, Editor, writer, former events/projects producer at Queensland Writers Centre Virginia Muzik, Writer, copyeditor, proofreader, aspiring author Lisa Walker, Writer Sarah Morton, Copywriter, aspiring author, Member of Writing NSW Board Laura Russo, Writer and editor Vivienne Pearson, Freelance writer Justin Ractliffe, Publishing Director, Penguin Random House Australia James Ley, Contributing Editor, Sydney Review of Books Alison Urquhart, PublisherPenguin Random House Debra Adelaide, Author and associate professor of creative writing, University of Technology Sydney Magdalena Ball, Writer, Reviewer, Compulsive Reader Anna Spargo-Ryan, Writer, writing teacher, editor, reader Charlie Hester, Social media & project officer, Queensland Writers Centre Mandy Beaumont, Writer, researcher and reviewer Chloe Barber-Hancock, Writer, reader, pre-service teacher Dr Patrick Mullins, Academic and writer Wendy Hanna, Screenwriter Chloe Warren Dianne Masri, Social Media Consultant Jane Gibian, Writer, librarian, reader Dr Airlie Lawson, Academic and writer Karen Andrews, Writer, teacher, reader Tim Coronel, General manager, Small Press Network and Industry adjunct lecturer, University of Melbourne Tommy Murphy, Playwright and screenwriter Evlin DuBose, Editor, writer, screenwriter, director, poet, UTS's Vertigo Magazine Tony Maniaty, Writer Emma Ashmere, Writer, reader, teacher Alicia Gilmore, Writer Suzanne O'Sullivan, Publisher, Hachette Australia Jacqui DentWriter, Content Strategist Rachel Smith, Writer Intan Paramaditha, Writer Cassandra Wunsch, Director TasWriters (The Tasmanian Writers Centre) Meera Atkinson Eileen Chong, Poet, Writer, Educator Debra Tidball, Author, reviewer Beth Spencer, Author, poet, reader Lou Pollard, Comedy writer, blogger Bronwyn Stuart/Tilley, Author and program coordinator, Writers SA Gemma Patience, Writer, illustrator, reviewer Amarlie Foster, Writer, teacher Dr Felicity Plunkett, writer Angela Betzien Drew Rooke, Journalist and author Michael Mazengarb, Journalist RenewEconomy Katrina Roe, Children's author, broadcaster, audiobook narrator Liz Doran, Screenwriter Arnold Zable, Writer. Tom Langshaw, Editor, Penguin Random House Brooke Maddison Monica O'Brien, ProducerAmbience Entertainment Jacinta Dimase, Literary AgentJacinta Dimase Management Jane Novak, Literary AgentJane Novak Literary Agency Sarah Hollingsworth, Arts Organisation ManagerMarketing and Communications Manager, Writers Victoria Barbara Temperton, Writer Sandra van Doorn, Publisher Red Paper Kite Alex Eldridge, Writer Karen Beilharz, Writer, editor, comic creator Esther Rivers, Writer, editor, poet Jane Pochon, Board Member, lawyer and reader Zoe Walton, Publisher, Penguin Random House Eliza Twaddell Alison Green, CEO, Board Member, Pantera Press Emma Rafferty, Editor Sarah Swarbrick, Writer Dayne Kelly, Literary Agent, RGM Léa Antigny, Head of Publicity and Communications, Pantera Press Jenny Green, Finance, Pantera Press Sarah Begg, Writer Mark Harding, Writer, Brand Manager, Social Media and Content Specialist Shanulisa Prasad, Bookseller Katy McEwen, Rights Manager, Pantera Press Olivia Fricot, Content Writer/Bookseller, Booktopia Jack Peck, Writer, Open Genre Group Convenor, Writing NSW, Retired Kathy Skantzos, Writer, Editor Serene Conneeley, Author, Editor Kerry Littrich, Writer Merran Hughes, Creative Cassie Watson, Writer Lisa Seltzer, Copywriter, Social Media Manager and Marketing Consultant Gemma Noon, Writer and Librarian Tanya Tabone, Reader Laura Franks, Reader, Editor, Writer Dani Netherclift, Writer Who to contact We urge you to join us in advocating for Writing NSW and the state of funding for Australian literature, by contacting Create NSW, your NSW Member of Parliament, and the NSW Minister for the Arts.

Chris Keely Executive Director, Create NSW Email: chris.keely@create.nsw.gov.au

The Hon. Don Harwin, MLC Phone: (02) 8574 7200 Email: office@harwin.minister.nsw.gov.au

Who to else to contact

The Hon. (Walt) Walter Secord, MLC Shadow Minister for the Arts Phone: (02) 9230 2111 Email: walt.secord@parliament.nsw.gov.au Ms. Cate Faehrmann, MLC Greens representative for Arts, Music, Night-Time Economy and Culture Phone: (02) 9230 3771 Email: cate.faehrmann@parliament.nsw.gov.au A full list of names and contact details for NSW State MPs is available here.

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Sources and acknowledgments

The author would like to thank the following for their help:

Erin Amico; Michael Amiridis; John Austin; Ed Bachrach; Carmelo Barbaro; Tom Barrett; Tim Bartik; Austin Berg; Scott Brave; Max Brickman; Sherrod Brown; Pete Buttigieg; Kendall Byram; Dan Caulkins; Hayley Child; Chris, in Assumption; Kathy Cramer; Kate Collignon; John Cranley; Rick Cruse; Art Cullen; Donald Dennis; Orphe Divounguy; Mike Duggan; Rahm Emanuel; Thea Ewing; Micah Ezekiel; Flash, in Decatur; Tony Flora; Charles Franklin; Tim Franklin; Laura Frerichs; Tim Frisbie; Jeremy Jacobs; Edward Glaeser; Anika Goss-Foster; Nathan Grawe; John Gurda; Beth Hansen; Dave Harrison; Brad Henderson; Tom Henry; Eric Herman; Walter Johnson; Aaron Jones; Robert Jones; Paul Judge; Bruce Katz; Ryan Kelly; Thomas Klier; Birgit Klohs; Paul Krugman; Bob Leonard; Lori Lightfoot; Richard Longworth; Jeffrey Lyttle; Jeremy Manier; Bert Matthews; Richard Mattoon; Sonya Mays; Kenny McDonald; Scot McLemore; Leslie McGranahan; Rick Melcher; Julie Moore; Aidan Mouat; Tom Murphy; David Oppedahl; Mark Patton; Tef Poe; Darrin Redus; Brian Reisinger; Aaron Renn; Jamala Rogers; Rafael Salmi; John Sampson; Jeff Sloan; Tom Sloan; Sloan Spalding; Ramesh Srinivasan; Diane Swonk; Lauren Underwood; John Urbanus; Mike Venerable; Jay Walder; Thomas Walstrum; Ray Waters; Ben Wikler; Bob Zemsky.

A list of books and reports used for this report follows.

Books:

“Bleeding Out; The devastating consequences of urban violence, and a bold new plan for peace in the streets”. By Thomas Abt.

“Dignity, Seeking Respect in Back Row America”. By Chris Arnade.

“The New Chicago Way; Lessons from other big cities”. By Ed Bachrach and Austin Berg.

“Shortest Way Home; One mayor’s challenge and a model for America’s future”. By Pete Buttigieg.

“The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker”. By Katherine Cramer.

“Nature’s Metropolis, Chicago and the Great West”. By William Cronon.

“Storm Lake; A chronicle of change, resilience, and hope from a Heartland Newspaper”. By Art Cullen.

“Evicted; Poverty and profit in the American city”. By Matthew Desmond.

“The Nation City; Why mayors are now running the world”. By Rahm Emanuel

“Our Towns; A 100,000 mile journey into the heart of America”. By James Fallows and Deborah Fallows.

“What’s the matter with Kansas? How conservatives won the Heart of America.” By Thomas Frank.

“Triumph of the City; How our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier and happier”. By Edward Glaeser.

“The Making of Milwaukee”. By John Gurda.

“Janesville; An American Story”. By Amy Goldstein.

“The Fall of Wisconsin; the conservative conquest of a progressive bastion and the future of American politics”. By Dan Kaufman.

“American Summer; Love and death in Chicago”. By Alex Kotlowitz.

“The Heartland, An American History”. By Kristin L Hoganson.

“The Broken Heart of America; St Louis and the Violent History of the United States”. By Walter Johnson.

“The New Localism, How Cities can Thrive in the age of Populism”. By Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak.

“The Promised Land; the great black migration and how it changed America”. By Nicholas Lemann.

“Sundown Towns, A Hidden Dimension of American Racism”. By James W Loewen.

“Caught in the Middle; America’s heartland in the age of Globalism”. By Richard Longworth.

“The South Side; A portrait of Chicago and American Segregation”. By Natalie Y. Moore.

“Cahokia; Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi”. By Timothy Pauketat.

“Great American City; Chicago and the enduring neighbourhood effect”. By Robert Sampson.

“North America”. By Anthony Trollope.

“The Warmth of Other Suns; the epic story of America’s great migration”. By Isabel Wilkerson.

Reports:

“A Vital Midwest; the path to a new prosperity”. By John Austin and Alexander Hitch; The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. 2020.

“Between the Great Migration and Growing Exodus: the future of black Chicago?” By William Scarborough, Iván Arenas, and Amanda E. Lewis. Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago. 2020.

“How stagnating cities can prepare for the future”. Aaron Renn. Manhattan Institute. 2019.

“Jobs for the Heartland: Place-based policies in 21 st century America”. By Benjamin Austin, Edward Glaeser, Lawrence Summers. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. 2018.

“Midwest success stories, these 10 cities are blooming not rusting”. Aaron Renn. Manhattan Institute. 2019.

“The State of the Heartland”. Mark Muro, Jacob Whiton, Robert Maxim, Ross De Vol. Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings. 2018

“Why the Garden Club couldn’t save Youngstown; Civic infrastructure and mobilization in economic crises”. Sean Safford. 2004

The Midwest an outsized punch

This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline "Sources and acknowledgments"

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Birthdays 7.3

Beer Birthdays

Tom Kehoe (1964)

Christian Ettinger (1973)

Max Finance (1985)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Dave Barry; writer, humorist (1947)

M.F.K. Fisher; writer (1908)

Mississippi John Hurt; blues singer (1893)

Franz Kafka; Czech writer (1883)

Tom Stoppard; playwright (1937)

Famous Birthdays

Robert Adam; Scottish architect (1728)

Amalia Aguilar; Cuban-Mexican film actress and dancer (1924)

Rae Allen; actress, singer, and director (1926)

Evelyn Anthony; English author (1928)

Paul Barrere; rock guitarist (1948)

Sándor Bortnyik; Hungarian painter (1893)

Laura Branigan; rock singer (1957)

Betty Buckley; actor (1947) Vince Clarke; English singer-songwriter, keyboard player (1960)

George M. Cohan; actor, singer, songwriter (1878)

Michael Cole; actor (1945)

Johnny Coles, American trumpeter (1926)

John Singleton Copley; artist (1738)

Richard Cramer; actor (1889)

Tom Cruise; actor (1962)

William Henry Davies; Welsh poet and writer (1871)

Lisa De Leeuw; porn actor (1958)

Jesse Douglas; mathematician (1897)

Pete Fountain; clarinetist (1930)

Andy Fraser; English singer-songwriter and bass player (1952)

Thomas Gibson; actor (1962)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman; sociologist, writer, feminist (1860)

Ramón Gómez de la Serna; Spanish author and playwright (1888)

Albert Gottschalk; Danish painter (1866)

Larry "Bozo the Clown" Harmon; clown (1925)

Charlie Higson; English actor, singer (1958)

Philip Jamison; artist (1925)

Leos Janacek; Czech composer (1854)

Elle King; singer, songwriter, and actress (1989)

Alfred Korzybski; Polish-American mathematician (1879)

Johnny Lee; singer and guitarist (1946)

Doris Lloyd; English actress (1896)

Nicholas Maxwell; English philosopher (1937)

Didier Mouron; Swiss-Canadian painter (1958)

Olivia Munn; actor, comedian (1980)

Connie Nielsen; Danish-American actor (1965)

Tim O'Connor; actor (1927)

Carla Olson; singer-songwriter (1952)

Baard Owe; Norwegian-Danish actor (1936)

Eddy Paape, Belgian illustrator (1920)

Susan Penhaligon; English actress (1949)

Stephen Pearcy; singer-songwriter, and guitarist (1959)

Ralph Barton Perry; philosopher (1876)

Susan Peters; actress (1921)

Jethro Pugh; Dallas Cowboys DT (1944)

François Reichenbach; French film director (1921)

Ken Russell; English film director (1927)

George Sanders; Russian-born British actor (1906)

Richard Mellon Scaife; businessman (1932)

Harrison Schmitt; geologist, astronaut (1935)

Ruth Crawford Seeger; composer (1901)

Michael Shea; author (1946)

Kurtwood Smith; actor (1943)

Yeardley Smith; actor (1964)

Jan Smithers; actor (1949)

Poly Styrene; British musician (1957)

Tommy Tedesco; guitarist (1930)

Norman E. Thagard; astronaut (1943)

Aaron Tippin; singer-songwriter, guitarist (1958)

Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo; Belgian artist (1922)

John Verity,; English guitarist (1949)

Johnnie Wilder, Jr.; R&B/funk singer (1949)

Montel Williams; television host (1956)

Patrick Wilson; actor (1973)

Edward Young; English poet, dramatist (1683)