From the Atlantic Wire – a steadily growing list of articles by writers and thinkers on their media diet. Completely fascinating.
From the New York Times: Ballet Stars Now Twitter as Well as Flutter. “Hi, I’m Devin and I’m an MRI-aholic.” “Once again I took 2 days off this week. My body is wrecked. At the chiropractor now getting fixed.” “What you didn’t know- fell in my dress reh. Fri, tweaked my foot, and couldn’t finish! [...]
Books for the gainfully, but grudgingly, employed.
Whether you agree with Cary Wolfe or not, it would be wise to understand posthumanism.
Being a mother has changed how I spend my time and how I see the world, but it hasn’t changed who I have always been.
From Wunderkammer: The Anxiety of Influence. Literature won’t die out. In fact, it’s indispensable.
From the Boston Globe: How to start an art revolution. The wishful thinking and the practical solutions both tend to focus on New York, the center of the American art world, whose high-rent lifestyle and fast-paced market can be as deflating as they are seductive. Artists talk optimistically of changing the city, and they talk [...]
What it tells us about work, and five beers that will make you say, “It is good.”
In both style and content, Scibona takes risks that elevate The End from a mainstream Italian-American novel to a work of art.
It would be easy for a film like this to veer off into an utter condemnation of love, but it clings to the hope that love might just be right around the corner.