My friend Tyler is starting a new radio show and you should all listen to it, as his blurb makes absolutely clear:
This show features a combination of field recordings and experimental sound art (Glenn Gould, John Cage, Janet Cardiff, Max Neuhaus), home-recorded folk and pop songs (Charlie Mcalister, Simon Joyner, Wio), as well as [...]
There is an excellent article in the latest Harper’s by Alec Wilkinson, a veteran staff writer at The New Yorker, describing the work of a husband and wife team who spend nearly two hundred days a year travelling America with a boat to search for the drowned. This is Wilkinson’s first piece published with [...]
Last night I was very fortunate to see a performance of work by Ha-Yang Kim at Roulette.
The first piece, Metasmatter, was performed by a mixed sextet comprised of piano, flute, violin, cello, bass clarinet and percussion. This is a wonderful eclectic piece clearly influenced by jazz and Balinese music, and was performed with [...]
The long bare corridor was brightly lighted and empty, until a young man with a thin face, a slightly crooked nose, and a weary expression which embraced his whole appearance, passed them. —There, there’s the guy who was working on this, he’s one of the writers. Hey, Willie… But the weary figure went on. He [...]
Their breath came short and their pulses raced, but they were within those limits that had been predicted and considered safe.
Richard D. Lyons, “Apollo Doctors Pleased At Astronauts’ Reactions”, in New York Times, 21 July 1969, p. 5.
According to the publisher, Beckett is in good health and went swimming over the weekend.
“Beckett Accepts Nobel; Refuses [...]
I was lucky enough to come by the last ticket to the last performance of the Peter Weiss play Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade—or The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum [...]
From a Times article about Jonathan Littel’s Les Bienveillantes, the 900-page debut novel which just won the Prix Goncourt—
Gallimard, which received the manuscript under a French pseudonym and planned to publish only 12,000 copies, has used paper reserved for the new Harry Potter book to print thousands more.
(Time to write the first draft: 112 days).
[...]I have moved to the greatest city in the world.