The culprits were The Daily Mail and The Times, whose critic called it “Hamlet for kids raised on Moulin Rouge” – prompting theatre folk to suggest that the public should be able to read and judge the first drafts of her reviews.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Blurred Lines: The Battles Over Free Speech, Hate Speech, And Online Shaming
Kelefa Sanneh: “We live in a world, evidently, where a college-town d.j. who plays a popular song can inspire a Facebook protest that will eventually cost him his gig. But we also live in a world where an undergraduate who protests at her local bar can find herself vilified around the world … And it’s not obvious that the first development should trouble us more than the second.”
When This Author Sent Out Her Manuscript Under A Male Name, She Got More Than Eight Times As Many Responses As She Did With Her Own Name
Catherine Nichols: “Total data: George sent out 50 queries, and had his manuscript requested 17 times. He is eight and a half times better than me at writing the same book.”
‘To Me, They Are Art World Royalty’ – The Guerrilla Girls, 30 Years On
“After three decades as masked crusaders for gender and racial equality in the art world – and increasingly, everywhere else – the Guerrilla Girls have lately been enjoying a victory lap. … What follows is an oral history of the Guerrilla Girls and their big-footed leaps across the cultural world, recounted by the Girls themselves, their art-world contemporaries and younger artists they inspired, as well as curators, dealers and museum directors who were witness to their insurrection.”
Refunds For ‘Go Set A Watchman’? Really?
“From the beginning, we knew that the manuscript was at best ‘recently rediscovered’, not new. It was always presented as a first draft of Mockingbird … And no buyer, even for the smallest and humblest of stores, was unaware of that when they ordered their own supply. The fact is that people wanted to read a new Harper Lee novel no matter what its provenance and no one truly wanted to get in the way of that.”
How The Brain Erases Ugly Memories
“New research has identified a neuronal circuit responsible for the brain’s ability to purge bad memories, findings that could have implications for treating PTSD and other anxiety disorders.” It’s all about the amygdala and prefrontal cortex …
All Work And No Pay: Yes, Writing Is A Serious Job, Even If It’s One You Can Rarely Make A Decent Living From
Phoebe Maltz Bovy considers the implications of the currently active hashtag #TenThingsNotToSayToAWriter.
If The Old Masters Had Had To Write Artist Statements
Jan Vermeer: “The Guitar Player constructs a Calvinist phenomenological epoché in order to systematically criticize Counter-Reformationist assumptions of irreducible and harmonious existence. Through simulation and prediction it also examines the participant’s failure to oppose the dominant cultural projection of ataraxia.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.06.15
The Ystad Festival, Part 4
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How have you engaged your staff to cultivate new leaders?
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-08-05
So you want to see a show?
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-08-06
Do Whales And Dolphins Have Culture?
Barbara J. King talks to two scientists who say the answer is definitely yes, although the way they define culture may severely irk some anthropologists.