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A Canto A Day (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Time to start putting down some of my own thoughts on questions of criticism and translation. I fully expect that the points I'm raising here will have been dealt with by someone else already, but at least I'll know what I'm looking for. I've mentioned earlier Susan Sontag's appeal to common sense: there is such a thing as an "original" text . Appeals to common sense always worry me. You've...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Tod Papageorge on his series American Sports 1970 and Central Park; Garry Winogrand's juxtapositions and Susan Sontag's misplaced expectations.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
What, apart from being dead and, in their different ways, remarkable, do the following authors have in common: Kingsley Amis, Saul Bellow, Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Luis Borges, William Burroughs, Italo Calvino, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Janet Frame, Allen Ginsberg, Czeslaw Milosz, Yukio Mishima, Edward Said, Susan Sontag, Hunter S Thompson, John Updike, Evelyn Waugh... and Vladimir Nabokov?...
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Circle Of Life (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
I heard about the Great Interview Experiment hosted by Citzen of the Month via my hubby, SciFi Dad . I thought it would be fun to participate. If anything, it would give me a chance to get to know two more bloggers! I interviewed Veach from Snapperhead . MTM: How did you come up with the blog name "Snapperhead"? Veach: The term was a neologism I fabricated in the mid-1990's to be used—derogatorily—when...
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LOFT965 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag Posted in Jet Set, quote Tagged: travel quote
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A Canto A Day (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
First, a thought about the crazy economics of book publishing. Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag is a collection of essays and speeches from the last 20 or so years of her life. As I've noted earlier, it's a beautiful looking book, and the production inside is just as clean and stylish as the cover. But at about 350 pages, and with no new content, the cover price of £12 is ridiculous. Waterstone's...
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Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
I would love to hear what Errol Morris or the late Susan Sontag would have to say about the contrast between these two photographs: Number One Number Two What do you make of them? I think, "We captured a criminal...and manufactured a martyr."
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core77.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I'm a huge fan of Rob Giampietro , having discovered him first through his piece entitled "On Memphis, Pattern, and MacPaint." Completely convinced that Memphis is coming back, I, of course, loved this. Now, I want to point you to a new piece by Giampietro, entitled "Public Notice," which explores the unadorned informational poster, its contemporary expressions and the "issues...
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Light reading (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
At the Rumpus, Jeremy Hatch provides wonderful excerpts from Sigrid Nunez's memoir about Susan Sontag . Nunez's thoughts on Sontag's contempt for teaching strike me as very perceptive (I come at it, of course, from quite a different point of view!). (NB I was teaching Sontag's "Notes on Camp" in class this week, together with the demented style miscellany - it is truly a bravura performance...)...
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements This witty and heavily illustrated volume features more than 300 vintage book advertisements—startling and strange, beautiful and funny—that together reveal a kind of secret history of American literature over the last century. New York Times book critic Dwight Garner brings together original ads for some of the most acclaimed...
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The Indypendent (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Artists install exhibition at laundromat dealing with NYC housing struggles Posters for the People, WPA posters Susan Sontag on Claude Levi Strauss, 1963 Fake AP Stylebook You can contribute to the UK Guardian’s collection of the world’s worst bicycle lanes Justice Denied: Voices from Guantanamo Local washing is the new greenwashing Make Your Own Academic Sentence Video: Why I Stopped Going...
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PM (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
You can read more about Jay Winter here . "In the ranks of the men who served in the Great War, the men who collectively constituted the Lost Generation, there were many who had lost their limbs, their eyes, their minds. Others were less severely wounded, but still woke up every morning for years after the war accompanied by painful reminders of their injuries. Some war wounds healed by themselves,...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
"Good writers are roaring egotists, even to the point of fatuity." So wrote the superbly self-obsessed Susan Sontag in Paris in 1957.
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The Hardball Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I'd like to think that the announcement by Bugs & Cranks' Dave Chalk that he is quitting the baseball blogging business is dry humor, and that his leaving B&C is occasioned by another offer or a lack of free time or something as opposed to truly being disgusted with the sport. If not, it's simply baffling. He's been blogging about baseball for less than three years. None of the factors he cites...
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