Elderism #67
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"I think of the days we were gods and goddesses, playing ball with planets. We were larger than dinosaurs. But now we sit like good girls and boys and watch the tennis ball going left and right, forgetting the days ...
McSweeney’s
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I have a fairly nutty humor piece on the website of Dave Eggers's journal, McSweeney's, today (it is here.) It's called, "Fall Fashion Report from a Local Correctional Facility." It could not be gayer.
Elderism #66
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Wheelchair-bound after a 1990 car accident that cost him the use of both his legs, Bard professor Chinua Achebe, the author of the brutal and awesome Things Fall Apart, is releasing his first book in more than 20 years. An ...
Rewriting the Classics
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Writers and artists, take note: the publishing house Scribner recently published a "restored version" of Ernest Hemingway's memoir, A Moveable Feast, "restored" by Hemingway's grandson in such a way as to make the grandson's grandmother--Mrs. Hemingway #2--more sympathetic in the ...
Elderism #65
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Gore Vidal, in a recent interview in the Times of London: "My usual answer to 'What am I proudest of?' is my novels, but really I am most proud that, despite enormous temptation, I have never killed anybody."
Incoming: New Lipsyte
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Sam Lipsyte's scaldingly dark comic novel, Home Land, caused me to vomit with laughter (laughter, as the saying goes, is the best emetic.) So it was with grabby, snortling glee that I recently received a galley of his new slab ...
Elderism #64
Friday, September 25th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"Beautifully done." -The last words of English poet A.E. Housman in 1936, to his doctor, who was giving him a final injection of morphine.
Man on Fire
Friday, September 25th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »O, James Ellroy! Such a loveable nutjob are you! In his interview on public radio's Studio 360 last week, the author of L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia managed to 1) chastise his interviewer for interrupting him at one point, ...
Ring Nuts
Saturday, September 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Was it the gentleman seated next to me at the symposium who told me that he had six subscriptions to New York's Metropolitan Opera? Was it the gentleman who told me about how his seatmate at the Ring Cycle in Bayreuth, ...
Elderism #63
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"[Y]ou can't expect bras necessarily on a clothesline. You have to go to Target to see bras hanging nobly out for the public gaze." From Nicholson Baker's new novel, The Anthologist
