June 2011
19 posts
A Different Stripe: Félix Fénéon and Jane Austen →
nyrbclassics:
Ever wonder what art critic, anarchist, and feuilletonist Félix Fénéon was getting up to while he was in prison under suspicion of having been involved in a terrorist bombing? Well, as it turns out, he was busy translating Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey into French. Some thoughts from…
Edinburgh Book Festival
From The Scotsman:
LEADING actors and authors from Scotland will take to the stage for the most ambitious event in the history of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, organisers have revealed. The world premiere performance of Alasdair Gray’s latest play Fleck will be staged before about 500 fans in what is billed as a one-off occasion, to be narrated by Scotland’s poet...
this time i’m awake for keeps and the day is for real starting. i’m dressed in the clothing of a real human bean and going out to get this man his necessaries.
more from my evening:
john waters loved miss gulch. he thinks the sound of a dog barking is annoying too. he is super mad that the winged monkeys just abandoned post after the witch died, and didn’t go through with...
guess what guys. i’m awake again, alright? i’m thinking about how it is weird that 2 bizarre gay dudes separately hit on me in odd and explicit ways last night, and neither is the bizarre gay dude that i am in love with and went to see speak at the music box LOL ISN’T THAT JUST ALWAYS THE WAY MURPHS LAW TIMES A MILL
i have to leave this house and get some potatoes for this...
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don’t feel well. but here is what happened: i saw john waters introduce the wizard of oz. he talked about his love of the wicked witch as a child, how much he wanted to be her. the movie was gorgeous on the big screen. somebody asked him after in the Q&A what he thinks happened to the ruby slippers. he was like “some shoe fetishist bought them for a huge amount of money and is...
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Alexie!
“When some cultural critics fret about the “ever-more-appalling” YA books, they aren’t trying to protect African-American teens forced to walk through metal detectors on their way into school. Or Mexican-American teens enduring the culturally schizophrenic life of being American citizens and the children of illegal immigrants. Or Native American teens growing up on Third World reservations....
“Right now, for me, my favorite song is “Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)” [from In Your Dreams]. But part of that song was written in the mid-’70s, so that — it’s kind of an ancient song that travels down through time between Lindsay and Stevie and Edward and Bella. So for right now that’s my favorite.” —Stevie Nicks to afterellen on her favorite song that...
“In 2009, a 17-year-old Utah girl known in court filings as J.M.S. found herself pregnant by an older man who is now facing charges of using her in child pornography. J.M.S. lived in house without electricity or running water in a remote part of the state, several hours’ drive from the nearest clinic, which was in Salt Lake City. Getting there would have required not just a car—her area...
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