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.
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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.
