Thomas Pynchon
speaks out
on the question
of plagiarism
Norman Mailer
tries to head
such charges off
at the pass
with a bibliography
§
A New York Times
editorial
on this very subject
§
The Getty has an idea:
why not try an
arts professional
to run the place
§
Do Brits
suffer for their art
needlessly?
§
Wind-powered
sculptures
that walk
§
Keeping jazz alive
§
500 jazz albums
you need to own
listed by
year of release
§
The future of writing
beyond books
§
We-think
& just maybe
we do
§
“Seeing as the rise
of the book
coincided with the rise of
humanism itself,
it is not idle
to worry
that abolishing the first
will mean
abandoning the second.”
A review of the Sony
ebook Reader
and the book as technology
§
A book contest
with serious money
§
First
”USA artist grants”
are announced
(Meredith Monk,
the Kuchar brothers
& Ali Akbar Khan
among them)
§
“The Aeneid
should have been burned”
(Why Harvard grads
can’t read)
§
Grading the critics
in NYC
§
Claudia Rankine
on Lyn Hejinian
§
Out of Character:
a video
vispo
from Geof Huth
§
Bernard Heidsieck
reading
in
(in French)
§
An article on
Rose Auslander
§
Bjork’s
Pagan Poetry
will leave you
in stitches
§
A unique poetry contest
aimed at Konkani
people
(advertised here
in English
in
§
Russell Jacoby
on
Hannah Arendt
§
The limits of
cultural imperialism
§
The difficulty
of writing well
whilst being
super rich
§
Hal Meyerson
is the best political columnist
in
& this
is the best piece
on the implications
of the November elections
I’ve read yet
