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Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey (Free Course) | Open Culture

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:03:12 -0500

Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey (Free Course) | Open Culture

Kinder Eggs and Codeine Cough Syrup: Contraband across the Canadian border - Canada travel eh | Ask MetaFilter

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:38:51 -0400

Kinder Eggs and Codeine Cough Syrup: Contraband across the Canadian border - Canada travel eh | Ask MetaFilter

Audrey Hepburn grocery shopping with her deer, photographed by...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:12:42 -0400

Audrey Hepburn grocery shopping with her deer, photographed by Bob Willoughby, 1958.

This is your brain on Jane Austen, and researchers at Stanford...

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:26:43 -0400

This is your brain on Jane Austen, and researchers at Stanford are taking notes

The Believer Logger: Interview with Rebecca Lindenberg

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:27:09 -0400

The Believer Logger: Interview with Rebecca Lindenberg:

believermag:

I suppose the two poets who most help me here are Frank O’Hara and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Coleridge’s “conversation” poems, like “Frost at Midnight” and “The Nightingale” and “This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison,” are intimate poems written on specific occasions. They are meditative and personal and candid. The reader gets a sense, above all, of the friendliness of the enterprise, even when Coleridge feels blue.
In his beautiful, tough little essay “Personism,” O’Hara talks about the poem as a thing held between two people rather than two pages. These poets give me permission to write to a beloved interlocutor—someone intelligent, discriminating, permissive, tender, and interested. Fortunately for me, Craig (to whom most of the poems of this collection are addressed) was all of these things. But Craig is certainly not the only person to whom (and for whom) I write. I just want to feel like I’m conversing with a witty, observant friend.

Paris Review – Checking Out, Avi Steinberg

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:53:23 -0400

Paris Review – Checking Out, Avi Steinberg

newdirectionspublishing: At Quebec’s Garden of Decaying...

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:47:46 -0400

newdirectionspublishing:

At Quebec’s Garden of Decaying Books ”culture is fading back into nature.”

Paris Review – A Partial Inventory of Gustave Flaubert’s...

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:04:10 -0400

Paris Review – A Partial Inventory of Gustave Flaubert’s Personal Effects, Joanna Neborsky

The Millions : Bring it Back! Literature In the Olympics by 2016!

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:09:49 -0400

The Millions : Bring it Back! Literature In the Olympics by 2016!:

Fun Fact: “Literature” was an Olympic event until 1948. In fact, several other events were also listed under the umbrella of “Sporting Art,” as Olympic historian John MacAloon points out to NPR. For example, W. B. Yeats’ brother, Jack Butler Yeats, won the “Mixed Painting” silver in 1924; some people even won “Medals for Making Medals!”

“A difficult novel, let’s say, “The Brothers Karamazov,” will take most readers a matter of...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:25:00 -0400

“A difficult novel, let’s say, “The Brothers Karamazov,” will take most readers a matter of weeks to “read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest” (as “The Book of Common Prayer” has it). You can go faster if you just want to be told a story. You can also go faster if you already know a lot about nineteenth-century Russia. But curiosity might easily lead the ordinary reader to look into all kinds of subjects related to the novel—to search out a photograph or a painting of a Russian Orthodox monastery—or to learn something more about the aspects of Christianity (redemption, sin, expiation) that are addressed in the book. These things take time.

How many serious books can even a dedicated reader conquer in a year? No more than forty, I should think. Twice that, maybe, for a professional critic, academic, or journalist who is going at it hammer and tongs.”

— What To Read Next : The New Yorker

In 1999, Benson was interviewed by Salon.com. When asked,...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:01:43 -0400

In 1999, Benson was interviewed by Salon.com. When asked, “How did you feel about being Carolyn Keene?,” she answered, “I didn’t analyze it. It was just a job to do. Some things I liked and some things I did not like. It was a day’s work. I did it just like I did my newspaper work. I wrote from early morning to late night for a good many years. One year I wrote 13 full-length books and held down a job besides. That takes a good deal of work.”

— Happy birthday, Carolyn Keene! - latimes.com

La Evolución Silenciosa (The Silent Evolution)

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:38:59 -0400

La Evolución Silenciosa (The Silent Evolution)

“Simon Armitage has walked the 256 mile Pennine Way as a ‘modern troubadour’,...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:12:58 -0400

“Simon Armitage has walked the 256 mile Pennine Way as a ‘modern troubadour’, earning food and accommodation by reading poetry. Armitage charts his journey in his new book, Walking Home. He told BBC Breakfast that he undertook the project to “test” the reputation of poetry and his own reputation as a poet, but that the book became “about other people and their relationship to the land.”

— BBC News - Poet Simon Armitage ‘the modern troubadour’

Gallery of Lost Art | Tate

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:51:53 -0400

Gallery of Lost Art | Tate

Where Wal-Mart failed, a library succeeds - latimes.com

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:28:29 -0400

Where Wal-Mart failed, a library succeeds - latimes.com

Bourdieu’s Food Space - Gastronomica

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:55:36 -0400

Bourdieu’s Food Space - Gastronomica

“The journals span 1952 to 2007. No date has been set for the publication of the first volume,...

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:50:51 -0400

“The journals span 1952 to 2007. No date has been set for the publication of the first volume, expected to cover 1952 to 1969, but it could be fall, 2013, more likely in 2014. […] Meanwhile, this summer, The New Yorker is scheduled to run an excerpt of about 13 pages from Gallant’s 1952 entries when she was living in Franco-era Barcelona and Madrid. […] In a note to newspapers, Barclay described the journals, which run to thousands of pages, “all pretty much handwritten,” as ‘representing an amazing witness to the second half of the 20th century and the migrations of people in Europe since the Second World War. Mavis Gallant is the last of a generation.’”

— Gallant’s private journals to be published in Canada, U.S. - The Globe and Mail

ruineshumaines: Fireflies on the Water (2002), by Yayoi...

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:42:35 -0400

ruineshumaines:

Fireflies on the Water (2002), by Yayoi Kusama.

Fireflies on the Water isan installation made of 150 lights, mirrors and water.
It offers an out-of-this-world experience from the confines of a modest room paneled with mirrors and adorned with 150 tiny beads of light deliberately suspended throughout the compact space. Upon entering the room, there’s an illusionary effect that gives the impression of infinite space reflected on all sides and in the two inches of water that flows below.

July 12 - September 30, Whitney Museum.

(Previously blogged: Infinity Mirror Room)

RSA Animate - Language as a Window into Human Nature (by...

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:09:49 -0400

RSA Animate - Language as a Window into Human Nature (by theRSAorg)

annadevries: —from I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron You’ll be...

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:33:00 -0400

annadevries:

—from I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron

You’ll be missed.

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