“Celebrity profiles are infamous, at this point, for their distinctive combination of erudition and ennui. Their adjective-happy explorations of hot-lady celebrities … treat their subjects like ‘irreducible mysteries, floating so high above the mortal (male) writers that they can only be described in terms of their effects.’ … Celebritized food profiles – celebrations of, among other things, actual rump roasts – treat their own subjects with a similar mingling of mysticism and frustrated desire.”
Tag: 04.15.15
John Cameron Mitchell – He And Hedwig Have Both Changed A Lot Over 20 Years
“Sitting on his upholstered couch in his rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan’s West Village, we talk about being an openly gay actor in the ’80s, the healing that comes with watching parents age and why he says [his late ex-boyfriend] Jack was the best man he ever knew.” (podcast)
It Had To Happen: Author Of ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’ Gets Twitter-Shamed
And it was over a passage that didn’t even make it into the published version of the book. Laura Miller explains the what and how.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.15.15
Overserved
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-04-15
‘One-Way Ticket’s’ Missed Connection: Lawrence’s ‘Migration’ Show at MoMA Bypasses a Crucial Stop
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-04-15
Not Since Robbins
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-04-15
Just Because: Dave Frishberg And Friends
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-04-15
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Study: Creativity Can Be Boosted By Artificial Stimulation
Artificially activating “cortical oscillations in the alpha frequency band”—a type of brain wave that has previously been linked with creativity—leads to higher scores on a standard test measuring innovative thinking, according to researchers from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Artists To NYC: We Want Our Bust Of Edward Snowden Back
The 4-foot-high, 100-pound, fiberglass-reinforced cement bust of Snowden, who is living in exile in Russia after divulging secret U.S. government collection of phone records, turned up on a monument that honors American captives who died on British prison ships during the Revolutionary War. The three artists say they considered the bust “a gift to the city” that could spur discussion about American ideals, values and heroes. Parks officials and police didn’t see it that way.
What Can Book Marketers Learn From Satanists?
“Anton Szandor LaVey’s founding text of the Church of Satan, The Satanic Bible, survives in the broad popular consciousness, in part thanks to regular challenges by groups seeking to ban it … Very little effort needs to be expended by the Church to market itself, because it can piggyback on the defensiveness of the Christian American majority.”