Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt and Norman Mailer
Hitchens Watch (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
While we await to see if The Great Man will give us a hat trick with another Slate column telling us that Major Hasan was a Muslim, let's take a smoke break with the more interesting (even as a corpse) Norman Mailer.
LinkMachineGo (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
[books] In Cold Blood, Half A Century On … revisiting the senseless murder of four people, Kansas and Truman Capote … For Truman Capote the outcome of his sojourn in west Kansas was decidedly mixed. In Cold Blood, which he immodestly heralded as a new form of non-fiction novel, was received with delirious approval; Norman [...]
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Paul Auster with Michael Wood: Writers At Work Live Interview on September 3, 2002 at the 92nd Street Y.
Bill Kerr (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
This has been out for a couple of years but I only saw it recently on late night SBS documentaries. It's a very smooth rendition of the Chicago 1968 Hoffman / Yippie / Black Panthers (Bobby Seale) trial 1968. I live through that time and the anti Vietnam war street demos. It was a historical hinge point. This documentary perturbed me because I lived through somewhat similar events in Australia - the...
jourANAL (journal) (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
woke up. did painting. ate cheese sandwich. more painting. had curry with naan bread. then probably hit the hay. sweet. and that ladies and germs is today's blog. eat your heart out norman mailer.
Californiality (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
California's largest city is more than just freeways, palm trees and plastic surgeons. Los Angeles is an Alpha City, a global mecca, and a symbol of opportunity for billions of ambitious dreamers. Everyone has a perspective on L.A., so there are many profound quotations about the City Of Angels. Here are some of the best quotes about La La Land --- the good, the bad, and the funky: "People
What's Left in the Church (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
N.B.: This is a far more thoughtful response to Feodor's complaint about my remarks concerning Marcel Proust. If this doesn't satisfy him, well, I'll buy him a subscription to Dissent. One point George Scialabba made last evening with which I profoundly disagree (for obvious reasons) is the effect of the internet on literacy . I find this odd, in particular, since so much of what happens on the internet...
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Death of the Cool : Cool was once associated with reticence, savoir-faire, and irony, none of which is much practiced or regarded these days. (Robert McHenry, November 20, 2009, American) Who and what was cool? Cary Grant was cool, and of course Steve McQueen . Thelonious S. Monk (anybody remember when Time captioned a picture of him “Melodious Thunk”?) and Horace Silver, Fairfield...
SPD TODAY (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
SADNESS AT LEAVING: AN ESPIONAGE ROMANCE Erje Ayden $7 | paper | 256 pp. Semiotext(e) ISBN: 0936756578 Fiction. Friend of Frank O'Hara and "bodyguard" to Willem DeKooning, Turkish expatriate Erje Ayden was the house novelist of the New York School poets and painters during the early and mid-1960s. Ayden boasts of a background in espionage, so this genre-spy thriller could be a veiled autobiographical...
Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
A couple of different clips (from the 1980s? Not sure.) are compiled in this 5 minute video of Paul Krassner interviews. From the Film Archive description, a bio of Mr. Krassner: Paul Krassner (born April 9, 1932) is an author, journalist, stand-up comedian, and the founder, editor and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958. The Realist, edited and published...
NYC Parks Daily Plant (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
On November 16, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and Council Member James Gennaro broke ground on renovations to the Boathouse on Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Representatives of the Boathouse's users, TASCA, Hong Dragon Boat, Row NY and community members also attended. "The Boathouse at Flushing Meadows Corona Park has provided visitors...
Poet Mom (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
This has been a really nice weekend. Not only was I able to be a bit of a social butterfly around the Boston area, it has been an amazingly productive weekend (read: no kids!). The rain has finally given way to 60 degree weather and a bit of sun. Hurray! I'm wrote this at Starbucks. Unfortunately, Wifi was down so I'm posting after the fact. **** I should mention that I had a rotten night of sleep...
Brooklyn Heights Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Brooklyn Heights resident, former NYC mayoral candidate and world renown author Norman Mailer died two years ago today from acute renal failure. We thought it appropriate to remember the cantankerous writer with this clip from his 1968 appearance on Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. Also, today’s Brooklyn Eagle has an interesting retrospective on Mailer. Amazon.com [...]
Church of the Acronym (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
I think I've spotted what might be ELCA's problem. Have you looked through (Akaloo) Questions for life: Matthew's View ? It's Augsburg Fortress published in cooperation with Presbyterian Church USA (2006) and the cover says it's for grades 9-12. Akaloo means "follow." I don't know if UALC is using the series; checking the internet, I see many churches use this series for Sunday school. I...
Quigley (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Barney Frank is a pig by Bernie Quigley - for The Hill on 11/08/09 Speaking of self esteem issues, only an overweight career buffoon who proudly and conspicuously talks like a duck to display his endemic contempt for the world west of Boston would say that some of the people at the rally “ . . . appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?'" Thinking...
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