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Obama: I Learned About Complexity From Reading Novels
“When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I’ve learned I think I’ve learned from novels”.
It Don’t Come Easy: David Lynch’s Relationship With Language
“Affable despite his elusiveness, Lynch seems [in an early interview] less to be stonewalling than striving to verbalize daunting concepts with a vocabulary that might politely be termed basic. … It’s clear from the 1979 footage – and from almost every interview he has done since – that words do not come easily to him. … Lynch has said, more than once, that he had to ‘learn to talk,’ and his very particular, somewhat limited vocabulary seems in many ways an outgrowth of his aesthetic.”
The ADD Arts Philanthropist
Perhaps no one has given more money to Northwest arts organizations. But Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s arts philanthropy is changing in a big way. And the region is wondering what is in store.
Pianist’s Blasphemy Conviction Annulled By Turkish High Court
“The 8th Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals ruled by a majority vote that [Fazil] Say’s Twitter posts, which had led to his sentence on grounds of ‘insulting religious beliefs held by a section of society,’ should be regarded as freedom of thought and expression and thus should not be punished.”
Jazz Vocalist Mark Murphy, 83
“Celebrated for his interpretations of songs by Cole Porter, Antônio Carlos Jobim and other great songwriters, … he ranged from bebop to ballads, torch songs to scat singing, from vocalizing Kerouac’s poetry to experimenting with rhythms inspired by the whistle that summoned his neighbors in upstate New York to the local wool mill.”
Philip French, 82 – Was The Observer Film Critic For 50 Years
“During his five decades as a critic, French watched more than 2,500 movies, published several books and received an OBE for his services to film in 2013.”
Delusions Of Candor: How Gore Vidal Fooled Us (And Himself)
“In the course of more than half a century, his quips, aphorisms, insults, and punch lines amounted to a self-portrait, airbrushed so as to highlight his favorite warts: Olympian detachment, patrician hauteur. It was an act, a put-on – perhaps the most effective double bluff in the history of literary P.R.”
There Are Those Who Think Snoopy Ruined ‘Peanuts’ – Here’s Why They’re Wrong
Yes, it seems Charlie Brown’s beagle really irked some folks. (Daniel Mendelsohn: “[He’s] so self-involved, he doesn’t even realize he’s not human.” Sarah Boxer begs to differ: “Snoopy may be shallow in his way, but he’s also deep, and in the end deeply alone, as deeply alone as Charlie Brown is. Grand though his flights are, many of them end with his realizing that he’s tired and cold and lonely and that it’s suppertime.”
John Cameron Mitchell’s Journey From Reaganite To Punk Queen
“As Hedwig prepares a national tour, its creator talks with our editors about the show’s genesis, ’90s New York, and socialist project management.”