“He puts his ear to my chest and listens to my heart and counts the beats. ‘Sixty-two,’ he says with a satisfied smile, and I can’t imagine anything more intimate.” Bill Hayes, partner of the late neurologist and author, shares snippets from the diary of their life together that Sacks convinced him to keep.
Tag: 02.14.17
Why Great Critics Are Sometimes Wildly Wrong
“So how does it happen — how can someone on the order of Voltaire (we can insert many other illustrious names here) end up missing the mark so completely? We first need to dispense with the most obvious and least savory explanation, that the nasty judgment is directed more toward the writer than his or her work.”
How A Writer Can Be Harrowing Without Giving Her Soul Away
Finding essays outside one’s personal experience “would be work that was harrowing in another sense of the word, which originally referred to preparing fields for planting by breaking up the soil. A true harrowing essay would dig deeper, ultimately performing a generative function.”
Buy A Discounted Ticket To Leave For A Stranger, Says Venue In Rome
“The initiative will run for just over two weeks at the Teatro delle Muse, where people buying tickets for a variety show will be able to purchase an extra seat at a reduced price to leave at the box office for someone else.” It’s based on the old Naples tradition of “caffe sospeso.”
The Very Messy Story Of The ‘Apocalypse Now’ Video Game
Three weeks ago, a Kickstarter campaign started for crowdfunding a game version of the Francis Ford Coppola Vietnam epic, blessed by Coppola himself. But the project started about eight years ago at a video game studio called Killspace, which one former employee told reporter Adi Robertson was “the worst-run company you could possibly imagine.”
Painters In Search Of The Perfect “Red” Formula
“On walls, canvas, wood, or parchment, the música of reds was always more pregnant, more cadenced, and more resonant than others. Moreover, painting treatises and manuals are not mistaken; it is always with regard to red that they are most long-winded and offer the greatest number of recipes. For a long time, it was also the chapter on reds that began the exposition on pigments useful to painters.”
How Do You Edit Animation? The Opposite Of The Way You Do Live-Action
“Animated films have editors just like live-action films. But how do you edit an animated film? In live action, you shoot first and edit later. In animation, you edit first and shoot later.” Andrew Saladino explains in a video essay.
Ballet Training Really Can Harm Your Mental Health: Study
“While the advantages – including physical conditioning and the instillment of such welcome habits as discipline and cooperation – are clear, so are the dangers.” (For instance, the increased risk of eating disorders.) “That suggests dance training may produce or exacerbate some less-than-healthy psychological pressures. New research from Portugal finds evidence of just such a dynamic among young ballet students.”
A New App Hopes To Get Readers Hooked On Serialized Fiction
Radish “calls its [business] model ‘episodic freemium,’ which is basically a fancy way for saying the first chapter is free, and bookworms pay a small fee for each additional installment or chapter they choose to read.” And the authors will actually get a decent cut of those fees.
How Matt Haimovitz Broke His Antique Cello’s Neck (And What Happened Next)
He says he’ll never think of the Poulenc Sonata in the same way again.