I’m tired of seeing fantasy ghettoized. Genre was made to be transcended, and Jeffrey Overstreet’s The Auralia Thread seems to be doing just that.
David Foster Wallace was one of the few creative nonfiction writers who really captured the whole postmodern messiness of today. I haven’t read anyone else who can accomplish the pat-your-head-while-rubbing-your-belly feat of creating work that is both hip and packed with moral insight. I am afraid that the new space he created will be like a room after a party, deserted and echoey, now that Wallace is gone.
I watch Grey’s Anatomy for the fast-paced gore and the overblown personal dramas. I watch its spin-off, Private Practice, for all that along with its thoughtful treatment of bioethical dramas – the same dramas we’re seeing in real-life hospitals and public debate. The bioethics debate isn’t just a clinical and scientific debate or an abstract [...]
So you might be thinking to yourself, “didn’t he do caramel last time?” and you’d be right, gentle reader, quite right.
Sandra McCracken:A Red Balloon of Hope(Part 1) By Jenni Simmons Part one of a two-part interview with singer/songwriter Sandra McCracken. Playing God on Private Practice By Alisa Harris Bioethics makes an appearance on prime-time television. Sugar By Daniel Nayeri Sugar will kill you, right?
Sandra McCracken’s songs remind us of the fundamentals of goodness, the hopeful truth of restoration, and our part in this healing.
It is a fantastic mixture of confidence and humbleness that allows us to dream of the image of our own bodies suspended in air, confident that anything is possible, humble to the inspiration.
A Human Art:Sound and Spectacle in “La Gioconda” By Linnea Kickasola Audience and performer interaction through the lens of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “La Gioconda”. Thoughts on Watching “Man on Wire” By Sarah Hanssen High-wire art and the best documentary you’ll see this year.
The Venetian system for denouncingyour enemies, it plays an importantpart in the plot of "La Gioconda" Opera in current American culture is passionately loved by a few and generally misunderstood, feared or even reviled by most others. Its complexities can require specialized knowledge or a willingness to set aside certain expectations to wholly appreciate the [...]