“[He] helped introduce British readers to continental writers including Eugene Ionesco, Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet, and also championed edgy Americans, publishing Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and William S. Burroughs’ The Naked Lunch.” In 1966 he was convicted of obscenity for publishing Hubert Selby’s gritty novel “Last Exit to Brooklyn. The conviction was overturned on appeal, in a landmark free-speech case.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Heatwaves And History: Britain’s Broiling Weather Has Revealed Centuries’ Worth Of Archaeological Evidence
“The drought has had [a] surprising effect: All over the country, ghosts have been rising up out of the earth. In the fields of England, Wales and Ireland, the lost lines of houses and settlements, barrows and henges, the street plans of ancient towns from Roman times to the Paleolithic and the Middle Ages — everywhere the past is returning, written on the landscape. These phenomena are known as cropmarks.”
Chile’s New Culture Minister Dissed Country’s Human Rights Museum, And Now He’s No Longer Culture Minister
“Mauricio Rojas, a Chilean-Swedish political economist and member of [president Sebastián] Piñera’s center-right coalition, questioned the validity of the Museum of History and Human Rights, which opened in 2010 and documents abuses during the 1973-1990 military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.”
The U.S. Poetry Establishment Is Finally Becoming Diverse – And Audiences Are Responding
“Skim the table of contents of the major literary journals, … and even general-interest weeklies with vast reach such as The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. Scan the recipients of the prestigious and sometimes lucrative fellowships, awards, and lectureships … The face of poetry in the United States looks very different today than it did even a decade ago, and far more like the demographics of Millennial America. … These outsiders find themselves, at the very start of their careers, on the inside — and not just of a hermetic realm of poetry … At literary festivals, many of these poets are drawing big crowds.”
Guldoza live at WOMEX 2016
Uzbek song is not well known here (even the pop music is obscure), but it is well worth investigating. Here’s a sample from the singer Gulzoda, recorded at the WOMEX festival in Santiago de Compostela.
The Old Catchup Game: Daan Kleijn And Charles Lloyd Reviewed
Daan Kleijn, Passages, (daankleijn)
Charles Lloyd And The Marvels + Lucinda Williams, Vanished Gardens (Blue Note)
How Susan Sontag Staged ‘Waiting For Godot’ In War-Torn Sarajevo
Twenty-five years ago this Friday, Sontag’s production of Beckett’s play premiered in the besieged, hungry, surrounded-by-snipers Bosnian capital. Two actors who participated and a local journalist who was there recall how it happened.
What’s The Most Important Idea Ever To Come From India? Nothing
Which is to say, zero. “The invention of the zero was a hugely significant mathematical development, one that is fundamental to calculus, which made physics, engineering and much of modern technology possible. But what was it about Indian culture that gave rise to this creation that’s so important to … the modern world?”
A ‘Spotify For Cookbooks’ Is Coming
“Like Spotify, for a fixed monthly fee ($8.99 in the U.S.), users can browse CKBK’s collection of more than 500 cookbooks and 100,000 recipes, which [co-founder Matthew] Cockerill said was just a starting point. ‘We have a huge pipeline of content that we will add to the service as it grows,’ he said.”
MoviePass Is Re-Enrolling Customers Who Cancelled – Without Asking Them
August 15 is the effective date for the troubled company’s revised subscription plan, which limits customers to seeing three movies per month and excludes certain hit films. “Some fed-up users who decided to cancel their MoviePass subscriptions are receiving confusing emails that suggest the company has enrolled them in its new, modified plan without their consent.”