J.G. Ballard on the paintings of Francis Bacon
From the British writer’s memoir, Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton Francis Bacon, Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) In 1955 there was a modest retrospective of Francis...
View ArticleBird Lives!
Charlie 'Bird' Parker, bebop saxophonist and composer, died 61 years ago today. He was 34. #music #jazz #birdlives pic.twitter.com/PsCNaIncRs — Rhys Tranter (@RhysTranter) March 12, 2016 Filed under:...
View ArticleRead Orwell’s War Diaries Online
George Orwell’s war diaries, spanning 1938-1942, are freely available to read online. Open Culture has the details.Filed under: Biography & Memoir, History, Links, Literature, Politics Tagged: 20th...
View ArticleJennifer Bartlett on Originality
'Do something that attacks the notion of originality'— Jennifer Bartlett, 75 today. #art #quotes #motivationmonday pic.twitter.com/9Q1qHgFULH — Rhys Tranter (@RhysTranter) March 14, 2016 Filed under:...
View ArticleDid Kafka Invent the Answering Machine?
The Paris Review shares two excerpts from Reiner Stach’s Is That Kafka? 99 Finds that reveal a new side to Kafka “The invention of a cross between a telephone and a parlograph, it really can’t be that...
View ArticleSamuel Beckett Summer School 2016
Trinity College Dublin • 7-13 August 2016 About the School Now in its sixth year, the Samuel Beckett Summer School provides a unique experience for students, scholars and lovers of Beckett’s works....
View ArticleJ.G. Ballard on William S. Burroughs
From an 1984 interview with British novelist J. G. Ballard, relating his admiration for Beat writer William S. Burroughs I have met Burroughs quite a few times over the last fifteen years, and he...
View ArticleThe State That I Am In: Hannah Arendt in America
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft takes a look for the Los Angeles Review of Books.Filed under: Biography & Memoir, Critical Theory, Essays, Ethics, History, Links, Philosophy, Reviews Tagged: 20th Century,...
View ArticleKnausgaard’s My Struggle: A Lengthy Excerpt
The New Yorker has released an edited excerpt from My Struggle: Book Five, which will be published by Archipelago Books in April. [Read More]Filed under: Biography & Memoir, Links, Literature,...
View ArticleMarilyn Monroe reading James Joyce
Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce's modernist masterpiece, Ulysses. #stpatricksday #throwbackthursday #books pic.twitter.com/UMoYIvyPka — Rhys Tranter (@RhysTranter) March 17, 2016 Filed under:...
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