“Sarah Thornton took legal action over Lynn Barber’s 2008 review of her book Seven Days in the Art World. Ruling in London’s High Court, Mr Justice Tugendhat said the Daily Telegraph review was “spiteful” and contained serious factual errors.”
Tag: 07.26.11
Growing Inequality In America – It’s A Cultural Issue
“The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly available government data from 2009.”
I Miss Bonding Over Books
“I kind of miss the days when we had less perfect information, and when it could feel really exciting to see someone buying or reading or browsing something you knew was just going to rock their world, and to risk a conversation with them on the basis of that.”
Understanding A Play When You Don’t Speak The Language
Laura Barnett on watching Miss Julie in French at the Avignon Festival: “I was much more aware of the production as a whole – the white-box set, the dancers writhing away in the background – and of the actors’ incredible physicality. In shifting my attention away from the language, the experience of watching the play became even more intense.”
Man Booker Prize Longlist Includes Four Debut Novels
“A debut novel chronicling gang warfare in Peckham has joined efforts by a former Man Booker winner, Alan Hollinghurst, and Julian Barnes … on this year’s longlist for the prestigious prize. Stephen Kelman, who was a warehouseman, care worker and local government administrator before taking up writing in 2005, was … one of the more eye-catching additions to a lineup that includes four first-time novelists.”
Addiction, Amy Winehouse And The Tabloid Press
It is said that an addict must hit “rock bottom” in order to be willing to recover. But when the addict is a celebrity, her “lowest, loneliest moments are populated by exactly what a performer craves most: an audience. It stops looking like rock bottom, which leads the victim to believe there are still depths to plumb. Unfortunately, the next level down is usually a notice in Obit magazine.”
Listen To William Faulkner Teach And Lecture
“William Faulkner arrived at the University of Virginia’s Charlottesville campus in 1957 and served two terms as UVa’s first writer-in-residence. Many of his classes, readings, addresses, and Q&A sessions were recorded, and a treasure trove – 28 hours of tape – survived. Every invaluable minute is now available online.”
How Do You Tell Who Are The Most Popular Pop Musicians?
“In an era of iTunes and Amazon, Spotify and Pandora, album sales don’t tell you what they used to. With so many routes to our eardrums, how do we measure the actual popularity of pop music? It’s something various companies are scrambling to figure out.”
Historians Build Their Histories In Digital 3D
“Historians, literary theorists, archaeologists and others are using Geographic Information Systems — software that displays and analyzes information related to a physical location — to re-examine real and fictional places like the villages around Salem, Mass., at the time of the witch trials; the Dust Bowl region devastated during the Great Depression; and the Eastcheap taverns where Shakespeare’s Falstaff and Prince Hal caroused.”
Seventeen Pianos On The Streets Of Denver
“And then there are the regulars, the men and women, many homeless, who plant a cup and hope their songs persuade passers-by to open their wallets.”