“Facebook fan pages and Twitter accounts for dead authors may become our virtual altars. In the small act of pushing a button to ‘like’ or to ‘follow,’ we are saying these are voices we still need. We are saying ‘keep.'”
Month: January 2013
Evan Connell, Author of Mrs. Bridge and Son of the Morning Star, 88
“For most of his career, Connell had two reading publics: those folks who admired his fiction and those who admired his nonfiction. The first group scarcely kept him in supplies.”
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s CEO Resigns After Nine Days
Dare, whose history as a sex offender was under investigation, wrote that he thought “media attention to my family’s personal life will harm the organization and musicians I cherish, as well as needlessly embarrass my wife.”
Can We Finally Change Theatre Start Times?
“One of the original reasons for starting a show at 8pm was to give audiences time to go home after work to change for the theatre. Who has time to do that nowadays?”
What’s The Biggest Distributor of Children’s Books in the U.K.?
McDonald’s.
The NEA Loves Its Black Female Alien Superheroes
“HERadventure is one of nine recipients of the NEA’s maximum grant. It was created by filmmaker and digital artist Ayoka Chenzira, Ph.D., inspired by her attitude towards social issues at large.”
Will Netflix’s Original Series Change Our Relationship To TV – Or Tank?
“It’s rather like the library getting into the book-publishing business because it can tell what people like to read. Great idea, but fraught because the public’s taste is fickle and the public is so easily distracted.”
Sometimes, The White House Can Be Quite Amusing
The official response to a petition for a Star Wars-style Death Star: “We don’t have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke’s arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.”
As WWII Museum Expands, Is It Losing Its Way?
“There is something American about this view of history as cumulative individual experience. But it would be a mistake if the museum’s focus on the United States completely eclipsed other national experiences.”
Architect Renzo Piano Loves His Shard
“It is a kind of lighthouse in London. It is quite a surprising element, and providing surprise and wonder is not essential, but it is not a bad thing to do.”