But there’s a pretty strong reason to read – or attempt to read, or annotate – difficult works. “So is it an indecipherable ruse or a harbinger of hypertext? Could it even be … therapeutic?” – LitHub
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If You Call A Series Of Movies About Fierce Women ‘Playing The Bitch,’ Does That Subvert Anything?
Well, British Film Institute, you wanted to “start a conversation,” and you sure have. – BBC
Harper Lee Started A True Crime Book, But Never Finished It – Why?
What a heartbreak her life was after To Kill a Mockingbird, and her attempted true-crime book turned out similarly: “Despite amassing more than enough Maxwelliana for a book, she could not get traction in the prose. That’s a common enough problem, of course; nothing writes itself, and no matter how many pages a reporting trip yields, the one that matters most always starts out blank. Everyone told Lee that the story she had found was destined to be a brilliant book. But no one could tell her how to write it.” – The Guardian (UK)
Latinx People Are A Deeply Reliable Movie Audience, But Where Are The Latinx Movie Stars?
There’s some massive underrepresentation, and certainly underfunding. For the new El Chicano, for instance, the filmmaker says, “It took a bunch of Canadian hockey fans to get behind an all-Latino movie set in East L.A.” He also “remembers one studio note in particular: ‘If you could figure out a Caucasian influence, that will help its prospects.'” – The Hollywood Reporter
The Faces (And Words) Of This Year’s Tony Nominees
Vulture somehow found time to photograph and interview a lot of people on the list: “The nominees spoke about their shows, their collaborators, their group texts, and their reactions to being nominated, before heading off to their Wednesday matinees.” – Vulture
This Sacred Greek Island Hasn’t Had New Art For 5,000 Years, But That’s About To Change
The Delos experiment: “In the absence of human contact – only guards and archaeologists have inhabited Delos in more recent times – the remains of a sanctuary and entire city have survived like nowhere else in Greece. It is in this unspoilt idyll that Greek authorities have undertaken an experiment as exciting as it is ambitious. At its centre is Sir Antony Gormley. The British sculptor has created 29 iron ‘bodyforms,’ several cast from his own body, that are to be the first artworks to be installed here since the outpost was inhabited more than 5,000 years ago.” – The Observer (UK)
A Transgressive Manifesto from ‘A Void’
The seductive intelligence of a manifesto. – Jan Herman
Doreen Spooner, Who Blazed A Trail On Fleet Street, Has Died At 91
Spooner made her name with a photo of the woman at the center of the John Profumo scandal, but she did much more. “‘Who’d ever imagine a woman might be a photographer on a national newspaper?’ she wrote in a 2016 memoir. ‘A woman might be a tart or a monarch, but a press photographer?'” – The New York Times
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At Rosmersholm, “there is a slight problem with damp.” – David Jays
The Architectural Problem Of Abandoned Malls
Are abandoned malls a special category, or are they more like abandoned warehouses, boarded-up downtowns, left-behind elementary schools? Right now, they seem to be bleak – and a growing issue. – The Atlantic