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Mark O'Connell on Martin Amis and classic video gaming: "Invasion of the Space Invaders, then, is the madwoman in the attic of Amis’ house of nonfiction; many have heard rumors of its shameful presence, but few have seen it with their own eyes. I recently discovered a copy in the library of the university where I work, and I don’t think the librarian knew quite what to make of my obvious excitement at this coup."
Jonathan Lear on on "A Lost Conception of Irony": "My Crow friends already take themselves to be Crow [Indians], it is for each of them the most distinctive aspect of their identity, and yet, when the question arises, there is something uncanny, unfamiliar and uncomfortable about the thought of whether they (or anyone else around them) really is Crow."
Jon Baskin on coming to terms with Franzen vs. Wallace: "Then, in a highly anticipated piece for the April 18th, 2011 New Yorker — so highly anticipated that the magazine offered an advance version as online bait to reel in thousands of 'likes' on Facebook — Franzen proposed a brand new distinction, the simplest yet. The real difference between the two writers, he argued, was that whereas Franzen cares about other people, Wallace had always been a narcissistic jerk."
Bukowski live at City Lights Poets Theater, San Francisco, September 14, 1973: "Well, just let me sit here and drink beer. What was it I heard Cage one time he got up on stage and then he just stood there and he ate an apple and then he walked off. He got a thousand dollars. I'll just drink this beer and I'll leave, right?"
Roger Bellin on American Nietzsches: "In America...Nietzsche the smasher of idols has himself become an idol."
Jon Cotner on Anna Deavere-Smith's citizenship in action: "When I watch Let Me Down Easy, I'll always catch myself transcribing Deavere-Smith's transcriptions out of the desire to grow close to each subject. I want to become a better listener."
Roger Bellin on American Nietzsches: "In America...Nietzsche the smasher of idols has himself become an idol."
Jon Cotner on Anna Deavere-Smith's citizenship in action: "When I watch Let Me Down Easy, I'll always catch myself transcribing Deavere-Smith's transcriptions out of the desire to grow close to each subject. I want to become a better listener."
Mark O'Connell on Martin Amis and classic video gaming: "Invasion of the Space Invaders, then, is the madwoman in the attic of Amis’ house of nonfiction; many have heard rumors of its shameful presence, but few have seen it with their own eyes. I recently discovered a copy in the library of the university where I work, and I don’t think the librarian knew quite what to make of my obvious excitement at this coup."
Jonathan Lear on on "A Lost Conception of Irony": "My Crow friends already take themselves to be Crow [Indians], it is for each of them the most distinctive aspect of their identity, and yet, when the question arises, there is something uncanny, unfamiliar and uncomfortable about the thought of whether they (or anyone else around them) really is Crow."
Jon Baskin on coming to terms with Franzen vs. Wallace: "Then, in a highly anticipated piece for the April 18th, 2011 New Yorker — so highly anticipated that the magazine offered an advance version as online bait to reel in thousands of 'likes' on Facebook — Franzen proposed a brand new distinction, the simplest yet. The real difference between the two writers, he argued, was that whereas Franzen cares about other people, Wallace had always been a narcissistic jerk."
And, for what would have been Wallace's 50th birthday, a collection of 46 things to read and see from The Awl.
Sarah Braunstein introduces James Shea's poem-of-poem-titles:
Sarah Braunstein introduces James Shea's poem-of-poem-titles:
...Poem Before Dying. Poem
Shortly Before I Head to Dinner. Poem in Which
I Enter Drops of Dew Like a Man with Tiny Keys.
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