Roth: “For me, Bob’s is one of the persuasive voices I can still hear speaking. The tang of the real permeated his talk. Like all great teachers, he personified the drama of transformation through talk.”
Tag: 04.20.13
When Is It OK With The FCC To Drop An F-Bomb During Prime Time?
The FCC delivers the news by tweet: When it’s after the Boston bombings.
BitTorrent (Yes, You Heard That Right) Promotes An Indie Movie
“BitTorrent will help promote the film by inviting the 170 million users of its software — which helps facilitate the transfer of large data files — to watch the first seven minutes of the film prior to its theatrical release Friday.”
Novelists Already Are Dealing With Climate Change (It’s A New, Scary Genre)
“Over the past decade, more and more writers have begun to set their novels and short stories in worlds, not unlike our own, where the Earth’s systems are noticeably off-kilter. The genre has come to be called climate fiction — ‘cli-fi,’ for short.”
Can The World Of Dance Move Beyond Itself?
“Every night the audience is also asked to vote for its favourite work. And night after night, the audience choice did not reflect the judges’ opinions.”
Gabriel Kahane Reaches Back To The W.P.A. (Too Bad, Alaska And Hawaii)
“The piece is a travelogue geographically and historically, moving fluidly from the early explorers to the striking farm workers of the Depression, tying mythic past to political reality in the same manner as the original American Guides.”