Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
At Terry Teachout's urging I've been periodically reading the “Parker” novels of Richard Stark, one of the pen names used by the prolific, 75-year-old Donald Westlake. I wrote about the experience here , and was pleased to learn the University of Chicago Press is reissuing the Parker series starting with the first, The Hunter , from 1962. They’re unlike any other novels I know. The prose...
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... on the internet. Target individual blogs or topics in the ArtsJournal ad network. AJ Blogs | Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture rock culture approximately Rebuilding Gulf Culture after KatrinaRichard Kessler on arts education Douglas McLennan's blog Art from the American OutbackFor immediate release: the arts are marketable...
Tynan's Anger (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Terry Teachout, describing a night in Cleveland with his wife: As I mentioned the other day, Mrs. T and I are spending the week in Cleveland, seeing shows and hitting museums. We are, amazingly enough, quartered in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, about which much more later. Unfortunately--or not--the house in question is Web-unfriendly, so any blogging I do this week beyond the...
A Different Stripe (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
John Self's review of Monsieur Monde Vanishes sparks a debate about which of Simenon's thousands of books to read next. Terry Teachout makes us wish we were in Chicago to see this revival of Karel Capek's R.U.R. (which introduced the...
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... on the internet. Target individual blogs or topics in the ArtsJournal ad network. AJ Blogs | Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture rock culture approximately Rebuilding Gulf Culture after KatrinaRichard Kessler on arts education Douglas McLennan's blog Art from the American OutbackFor immediate release: the arts are marketable...
Orbitcast (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... of "Theme Time Radio Hour" will include "Money," "War," "Presidents," "Cats" and "Famous People." Terry Teachout in The Wall Street Journal said this of Bob Dylan's show: "To listen to 'Theme Time Radio Hour' is to rediscover the sense of musical adventure that old-fashioned disc jockeys with strongly individual personalities offered in the days before big-money stations pinned their...
