“They both discuss their memories first hearing the song ‘Blue Velvet,’ and Smith’s reflexive lyricism brings out something allied in Lynch.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Found! The Letter That Inspired Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’
“Kerouac told The Paris Review in 1968 that poet Allen Ginsberg loaned the letter to a friend who lived on a houseboat in Northern California. Kerouac believed the friend then dropped it overboard.”
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Whose Side – OK, Apart From The Movie Studio’s – Is The Hunger Games Series On?
In Thailand, “protesters showed up at the movie’s premiere in Bangkok and flashed the salute – only to be carted off by the police on the grounds that the Thai government has banned it. It’s an extraordinary blending of art and life that, although moving, possibly takes art a little too literally.”
How Can Thousand-Page Biographies Possibly Survive The Digital Era?
“I feel sorry for the biographers of the future. The questions we used to ask with such fervor — Where’s the archive? Do you have access? Are there letters? — will be irrelevant to our successors.”
Will The Literary Town Of Sag Harbor Lose All Of Its Bookstores?
“‘People say to me that they couldn’t move to a place without a great bookstore,’ Ms. Szoka said. ‘The community would be diminished if there wasn’t a place like this.'”
What It Means To Live In A ‘Museum City’
“Governments coddle these cities the same way nursing homes care for Alzheimer’s patients; everything is planned, nothing happens organically. Those splendid skylines are so fraught with symbolism and national pride that a misplaced roof tile could cause panic. The only future these cities will ever know is their own past.”
A Portrait Of A Dead Woman, Told Through The Auction Of Her Art
“Visitors seemed drawn by the romance of Mrs. Mellon’s legacy. A devoted horticulturalist, she was credited with developing the White House Rose Garden, and inspiring a green thumb in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.”
Is Classical Music In The Middle Of A ‘New Movement’?
“Of course, venues like this attract a huge clubbing audience, who are enjoying music and listening to amazing artists from different genres, so it’s a natural place for us to be.”
‘Gone Girl’ Author Gillian Flynn Doesn’t Give A Hoot For Likable Women In Literature
“I had about 24 hours where I hovered under my covers and was like: ‘I killed feminism. Why did I do that? Rats. I did not mean to do that.’ And then I very quickly kind of felt comfortable with what I had written.”