The Boom Is Over. Long Live the Art! from the Art & Design section of the NY Times online, February 12, 2009. By Holland Carter. The New Republic features a review entitled: Crime and Passion. The film is called Gomorroh, by IFC films, and the review is by Stanley Kauffmann, posted Wednesday, March 04, 2009. Saving Federal Arts Funds: Selling Culture as an Economic Force, by Robin Pogrebin in the NY Times online Arts section, published: February 15, 2009.
Dennis Cooper Presents: Six Guro Fairytales by the Chinese Paper Doll Artist Known as ‘On’.
February 23, 2009
Monday Reading List: February 23, 2009
February 9, 2009
Monday Reading List 2.09.09
Seeing Eye to Eye by William T. Vollman, my favorite writer, for Bookforum’s print issue. In Which George Bush Enters History by David Warsh at Economic Principals. Ten Greenest Buildings in the World over at Easy Ways to Go Green. The Wrestler: The Redemption of Mickey Rourke by Eli S. Evans over at The Fanzine. “Break it Down” by Lydia Davis as read by actor Matt Malloy from an episode (Episode #88: Numbers) of This American Life, available in podcast form for download. This is an excerpted short story from Lydia Davis’s book titled, Break It Down, available for purchase through this link. The Islamic Republic of Lashes in the New Yorker by George Packer. This Won’t Hurt a Bit by Jonathan Cohn, about health care reform for dummies in The New Republic online.
January 26, 2009
Monday Reading List 1.26.09
Old Godard blog posting with tons of great material, in word and video, at the New Yorker online from October, 2008.
The End of White America by Hua Hsu in the Atlantic, current issue (January-February).
The Things They Carried, scenes from the Gaza border, by Yossi Klein Halevi in The New Republic online.
“No Signs Kim Has Eased Control in North Korea,” an interview from the Council on Foreign Relations and Foreign Affairs Magazine. Interviewee:Don Oberdorfer, Chairman, U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies; Interviewer:Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor, CFR.org.
Hal Ashby by Darren Hughes, from Senses of Cinema.
William T. Vollman’s author page from McSweeny’s Internet Tendency.
Lydia Davis’s story (abstract from) “Thyroid Diary” from the New Yorker.
January 19, 2009
Monday Reading List 1.19.09
Things to Read Around the Web:
The Man in the Middle, on New York Senior Senator Chuck Schumer, by Joshua Green in the Atlantic Monthly. Should Obama’s Inaugural Address Be Bleak, by Eve Fairbanks for The New Republic.
McSweeny’s features a selection of children’s letters to newly elected President Obama, from what I believe is a forthcoming book. Between The Ritz and the Gutter: Francis Bacon’s Life in London, by Amabel Barraclough for The Fanzine. Interview with Benjamin Weissman from an older issue of The Believer, in part (subscribe for the entire feature). Also pick up Benjamin Weissman’s two awesome collections of short stories here, by clicking either Headless or Dear Dead Person.
Analysis of The Seventh Seal, a film by Bergman, written by Dennis DeNitto and William Herman for Winona State University.
They Are It, and article about The Strokes by Gerald Marzorati from the NY Times, originally published October 6, 2002.
History and Information on Niagara Falls from Info Niagara. Inaugural Galleries: Gilbert Stuart at the NGA, from Modern Art Notes by Tyler Green. Interview with Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra Grant from ArtSlant LA, September 2008.
December 22, 2008
Monday Reading List 12.22.08
Things to Read Around the Web:
New Fanzine review of the film Frost/Nixon by Adam Underhill; Ron Howard’s distinguished adaptation of the stage production by the same name. Between Obama and the Press by Mark Leibovich for the New York Times Magazine details Robert Gibbs and the president-elect’s communications team and strategy.
Metro Station Under Construction, Culver City
Beyond Iraq: A New U.S. Strategy for the Middle East by Richard N. Haass and Martin Indyk, in the January/February Issue of Foreign Affairs. Summary: To be successful in the Middle East, the Obama administration will need to move beyond Iraq, find ways to deal constructively with Iran, and forge a final-status Israeli-Palestinian agreement. Obama and Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg from Project Syndicate.
From Project Syndicate/Institute for Human Sciences in the New Republic online, A Lasting Poison by Norman Manea: A great writer’s complicity in the face of Stalinism. Vasectomia, and Other Cures for the Sloth by Christopher Turner in Cabinet Magazine online. From the San Diego Weekly Reader, a quick review of Darker My Love by William Crain.
Slavoj Zizek Meets Bernard-Henri Levy at the New York Public Library by Levi Asher from Literary Kicks: Opinions, Observations and Research. And find the New York Public Library’s podcast here.
