The Times, They Are A-Changin’
August 27, 2010
This month: The Curator turns two and gets a new editor.
Alissa Wilkinson
Alissa Wilkinson founded The Curator in 2008 and was its editor for two years until accepting a full-time faculty position at The King's College. She is also associate editor of Comment. Her work on pop culture, philosophy, politics, and fine art has appears in a number of publications, including Paste, Christianity Today, Prism, Patrol, WORLD, and Relevant.
Alissa harbors a not-so-secret obsession with cooking, farmer’s markets, and food policy; reads a lot of books; drinks a lot of herbal tea; and watches movies with her husband, Tom, in their tiny apartment high above the Brooklyn treetops.
Ira Glass on the Wrong Stuff
June 14, 2010
From Slate: A terrific interview with This American Life‘s Ira Glass on storytelling, creativity, and being wrong. But there’s a really fascinating instance of what you’re talking about in Chuck Klosterman’s new book [Eating the Dinosaur]. I feel like this is a really weird example to bring up, but he interviews me and Errol Morris about [...]
Rebuilding Indies
April 26, 2010
From the New York Times: A Rebuilding Phase for Independent Cinema. For more than a decade, the indie film movement centered in New York flourished, at times almost eclipsing the output of the mainstream Hollywood studios in terms of impact and accolades. But the financial collapse and the credit crisis had a deep impact on [...]
Eyjafjallajokull vs. Aviation
April 21, 2010
An interesting infographic – which is emitting the most CO2 per day, planes or volcanoes? Infographic junkies who love public radio’s This American Life should also check out This American Graphic.
Bad Writing and Bad Thinking
April 19, 2010
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: Bad Writing and Bad Thinking. They were a lively group of students, and we chatted for an hour, discussing topics we were all interested in. They asked smart questions. When we were wrapping up, I asked them a question: “What is your relationship to reading and writing?” At that [...]
How do you measure success – in the theatre?
April 14, 2010
From The Guardian: How do you measure theatre success? A group of the UK theatre world’s leading industry bodies – The Society of London Theatre, Theatrical Management Association and Independent Theatre Council – have recently come up with what they believe is a completely new way of measuring the effectiveness (or otherwise) of a theatre [...]
Daily Opening of a Book
April 12, 2010
From The Millions: Every Day I Open a Book. Whatever the desire, I read so much that eventually my parents forced me to go outside and play, and they talked to each other—and I overheard—of taking me to a child specialist to see if there was anything wrong with me. And still I devoured books, [...]
What to do about graduate school?
April 7, 2010
From The Chronicle of Higher Education: A Letter from a Graduate Student in the Humanities. Benton goes on to criticize both professors who offer such encouragement to their would-be graduate students, and graduate students themselves for their “angry and incoherent” responses to his critique. While I understand that he and his ilk may be trying [...]
No fibbing: Bedside reading
April 5, 2010
From The Guardian: Bedside reading. Celebrity readers always claim to enjoy only the highbrow, but real life bedroom tastes are a little more cosmopolitan. So no fibbing, what’s on your bedside table?