Curating some of the best recent links across literature, philosophy, and the arts
This is the third in a new weekly series that brings together the articles, reviews, interviews and miscellany that has caught my eye over the past seven days. Including: articles commemorating the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks in 2001, news about the mythical long-lost soundtrack of David Bowie’s The Man Who Fell to Earth, and President Barack Obama’s summer reading picks. Take a look, and feel free to share!
Literature, Poetry, Theatre
- Time, space, distortion: falling towards a 9/11 literature
- Why the 9/11 novel is such a contested genre
- Re-reading Stephen King’s It on its 30th anniversary
- Margaret Atwood experiments with the superhero genre
- Margaret Atwood interview: ‘I Finally Got To Do My Cat With Wings’
- Radio dramatization of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy
- Jonathan Safran Foer’s new novel wrestles with Jewish identity
- Lisa Dwan performs an extract from Samuel Beckett‘s No’s Knife
- Gabriel García Márquez to grace the new Colombian 50,000-peso bill
- Jane Eyre manuscript tours America
- John le Carré on his love of writing on the move
- Unseen short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Did algae inspire Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?
- Virginia Woolf‘s homes destroyed by London blitz
- Virginia Woolf‘s ‘gentle advice’ on how one should read a book
- Nicholas Lezard on the power of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
- J. D. Salinger’s house: artist’s retreat
- Samuel Beckett’s regret over career choice
- CFP: Virginia Woolf and the world of books
- CFP: Literary Connections and Cultural Collaborations
- CFP: Modernisms and Modernities East, West and South: Comparing Literary and Cultural Experiences
- Napoleon: failed novelist
- James Baldwin‘s ‘Fifth Avenue, Uptown’, 1960s civil rights essay on Harlem
- Writers tell what it’s like to live James Baldwin’s words
- Revisiting Jean Rhys‘ Voyage in the Dark
- Adrienne Rich‘s feminist awakening
- Stephane Mallarmé on the unique sound of the cricket
- Shakespeare not as original as we thought
- Zadie Smith will be talking about her new book, Swing Time, at the Manchester Literary Festival
- President Barack Obama on Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad
- 14 things you probably didn’t know about Colson Whitehead
- Leopoldine Core on Nella Larsen’s radicalism
- 18hr playlist of readings by the Beats
- Raymond Chandler and totalization
- Tracy K. Smith on Race, Love, Hate, and Lucille Clifton
- The 10 Greatest Books Ever (according to 125 top authors)
- Don DeLillo and Move-In Day
Art, Design, Photography
- Artists respond to 9/11
- Commemorating 9/11 through art
- An open call from Yoko Ono to women worldwide
- Monet’s last, desperate effort to create the world’s most beautiful paintings
- Try the MET Library’s newly designed online catalogue
- Alan Moore: By the Book
- How an English professor became an art history sleuth
- Odd couples: Artists you never knew were friends
- Eric Drooker’s startling New Yorker covers
- National Gallery paintings that inspired Samuel Beckett
- Robert Crumb’s short history of America
Philosophy & Theory
- 15 best classic books of all time
- A day in the life of Arthur Schopenhauer
- 2 short films on the work of Walter Benjamin
- Nigel Warburton recommends the best books on Introductions to Philosophy
- The women behind Marx and Engels
Music
- Q&A: Brian Eno, Oblique Music
- 50th Anniversary: Ornette Coleman’s The Empty Foxhole
- Steve Reich on writing music after 9/11
- Oliver Sacks on 9/11 and the power of music
- Open Letters Monthly reviews opera based on Oliver Sacks book
- Psychedelic video for Kraftwerk’s Autobahn
- CFP: New academic collection of essays on The Velvet Underground
- 26ft Bob Dylan sculpture to welcome visitors to National Harbor casino
- Denzel Washington to narrate John Coltrane documentary
- 2 documentaries introduce Delia Derbyshire, pioneer of electronic music
- Patti Smith on loving books
- Understanding the brilliant of jazz critic, Ralph Gleason
Film & TV
- David Bowie and The Man Who Fell to Earth soundtrack
- Bowie at Birkbeck: Free one-day symposium
- What we learned about David Lynch after 3 years in his art cave
- A brief history of TV shows being compared to Twin Peaks
- Stanley Kubrick‘s Top 10 Films
- Q&A: Christopher Guest
- Chris Marker‘s studio
- The Lisa Simpson Book Club
News & Politics
- A photographic history of NYC’s Twin Towers
- Michiko Kakutani on how ordinary things changed after 9/11
- Novelists assess President Barack Obama’s legacy
- German-born V&A director Martin Roth resigns following Brexit
Miscellaneous
- Lara Pawson discusses her memoir, This Is the Place to Be
- Oxford Dictionaries abandoned “least favourite word” survey before it began
- How many hours a week should academics work?
- What stands between academics and writing?
- First map of the London tube goes on display
*snicker* The ad-space was filled with a Trump ad.
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You have got to be kidding me! Unbelievable! Well, one thing’s for sure: he’s spending his precious campaign funds in the wrong place! Thanks for your comment, Louis!
Best,
Rhys
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Thanks for all the work you do rounding these up – always excellent stuff!
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Thank you so much! 😊
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Many thanks for including a link to my post about Voyage in the Dark in your round-up. For anyone interested in Jean Rhys, we are hosting a week-long celebration of her work starting today – more information here, including details of how readers can join in if they wish, all welcome:
https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/readingrhys-jean-rhys-reading-week-begins/
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Sounds fantastic! 🙂
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