The Art of the Obituary: Janet Frame
Janet Frame (August 28, 1924 – January 29, 2004) She needed ‘treatment’— electro-convulsive therapy at the Seacliff hospital in Dunedin. Every part of this therapy…
Humanity and Suffering on Craigslist
pp. 26-27 Carson McCullers, “The Ballad of the Sad Café” First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons—but the fact that it…
“What editors do for writers is mysterious, and does not, contrary to general belief, have much to do with titles and sentences and ‘changes.’…
The Art of Obituary: Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Nicole Smith (November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007) She acted too, though it was the Breasts that stole every scene, full in Leslie Nielsen’s…
The Critic in Culture
The role of the critic in culture: guardian/gatekeeper of the gift
She cuts like a knife with the eyes of her words.
The quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be life hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
Excerpts from a Conversation with David Foster Wallace
There are four trillion bits coming at you, 99 percent of them are shit, and it’s too much work to do triage to decide.
The Art of Promotion (1)
We here at James Brown Enterprises are deeply concerned about our youth. We are not only concerned with them doing the right things but also making the right decisions in life.
An Exile from the Real World
An exile from the real world, Elvis Presley built his own world
The Art of the Interview (3): Harvey Pekar
Harvey Pekar cramps David Letterman’s style in 1988.
Why Some People Do Not Read Poetry
Because they already know that it means stopping and without stopping they know that beyond stopping it will mean listening listening without hearing and maybe…
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Hopper on Art, Commerce, Death & Legacy
Andy Warhol, Dennis Hopper, (1971) Anticipating the premier of Hopper’s follow-up to Easy Rider, The Last Movie (1971), James Stevenson profiled the young director in…
The Search
Bedrich Grunzweig, Times Square Movie Theatre Marquee (New York City, c. 1950) Walker Percy, The Moviegoer Then it is that the idea of the search…
The Gift
Leopoldo Lugones Argüello (13 June 1874 – 18 February 1938) Jorge Luis Borges, August 9, 1960: The sounds of the plaza fall behind, and I…