January 2012
25 posts
Literary Lushes: Our 10 Favorite Book (and... →
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For many authors over the years, alcohol has been nearly as important a writing tool as pen, paper, poverty, and loneliness. Some have speculated that hard drinking and prolific writing might have similar genetic roots. Another theory is that the sauce, inhibition eliminator extraordinaire, might just make the very exhibitionist writing process easier, Time reports. Whatever the case,...
“I made orange juice from concentrate and showed her the trick of squeezing the...”
– Miranda July (via crocket)
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December 2011
47 posts
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on Frankenthaler's neo-con cuts to the arts
Comprising Joseph Epstein, Jacob Neusner, New Criterion publisher Samuel Lipman, and painter Helen (nary-a-good-review-since-‘62) Frankenthaler, the council’s neo-con cabal killed what it regarded as the left-leaning-critic’s fellowships in 1983. (Some have suggested that the council’s assault on critics was a dress rehearsal for the contemplated dismantling of the entire...
Frankenthaler, lest we forget,
Frankenthaler did take a highly public stance during the late 1980s “culture wars” that eventually led to deep budget cuts for the National Endowment for the Arts and a ban on grants to individual artists that still persists. At the time, she was a presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts, which advises the NEA’s chairman.
In a 1989 commentary for the New...
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Automatism, Causality and Realism: Foundational Problems in the Philosophy of Photography. (Link)
Young, Black and Frisked by the N.Y.P.D. -... →
The late Christopher Hitchens
Don’t take this the wrong way, but the glowing tributes to Christopher Hitchens are both tasteless and incorrect. Have some decency. The boring wisdom has it that Hitchens broke the mould intellectually. He did not. For all the unique saleability of the Hitchensian idiolect (or intertext), he was a very conventional thinker, in addition to being a provincial. He also had a reputation...
Johnny Case in Wonderland: Mr. Hitchens and Me →
johnnycaseinwonderland:
Many years ago Christopher Hitchens gave a lecture at Bedford Falls U. The Politics Department brought him to campus for our annual Scoop Jackson Lecture, for which he gave a presentation based on what he argued were the war crimes of Henry Kissinger. After his presentation, which was amazing, he took Q & A, and he was as forthcoming a speaker as I’ve ever...