Stanley Kubrick (right) plays chess with George C. Scott on the set of Dr Strangelove: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Stephen King, Salem’s Lot

The weekly round-up brings together the articles, reviews, interviews and miscellany that has caught my eye over the past seven days. Including: Zadie Smith on Trump and multiculturalism; photographer John Minihan on spending a day with Francis Bacon and William Burroughs; and a look at the house where H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds. Take a look, and feel free to share!

Literature, Poetry, Theatre

• Three Days with Thomas Bernhard
• Returning to Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot
• Examining Brooklyn’s Fictions
• Carl Jung Writes a Review of James Joyce’s Ulysses
• On the romanticization – and the realities – of mental illness and art
• New site for the Angela Carter celebrations in Bristol
• Jack Kerouac, Ralph Ellison, Ray Bradbury, John Updike, Saul Bellow, & Norman Mailer respond to a symbolism survey
• The house where H.G. Wells wrote The War of The Worlds
• To Kill a Mockingbird removed from Virginia schools for racist language
• “After Sherlock Holmes, I stopped reading until my early twenties.” —Kazuo Ishiguro
• Zadie Smith on optimism and despair
• “The job of writers is to carry on defying the normalization of what is happening” – Zadie Smith
• Fresh Air Weekend: Novelist Zadie Smith and ‘Daily Show’ Host Trevor Noah
• On the enduring appeal of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, half a century after its first publication
• Endpapers to original first German edition of W. G. Sebald’s Die Ringe des Saturn
• Moby Dick rejection letter asks Herman Melville: “Does it have to be a whale?”
• The Digital Literary Atlas of Wales project
• J.G. Ballard’s house – the perfect place to crash
• Did you know the Sex Pistols’ debut album cover was inspired by the modernist magazine Blast?
• What’s changed, and what hasn’t, in the town that inspired To Kill a Mockingbird
• Hear 23 hours of H.P. Lovecraft stories
• “I never write anything that I don’t think will be paid for.” —Truman Capote
• Edward Bawden illustration for Jonathan Swift’s The Voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput and Brobdingnag (Folio Society, 1948)
• Philip K. Dick’s favorite classical music: A free, 11-hour playlist
• John Minihan on a day in London with Francis Bacon and William S. Burroughs
• Hear what Homer’s Odyssey sounded like when sung in the original Ancient Greek
• A CUNY video discussion on Reiner Stach’s Kafka biography
• Hunter S. Thompson‘s widow wants to get you high on his personal supply
• A new Eugene O’Neill biography is a juicy volume that brims with offstage theatrics
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test at 50
• An inside look at Philipp Preuss’ new stage adaptation of Albert Camus‘ 1942 novel L’Étranger in Berlin

Art, Design, Photography

• A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde, a MoMA exhibition with 260 major works from 1912 to 1935
• See Harlem at the height of the Great Migration through the eyes of a young Black girl, Mildred Harris
• New exhibition foregrounds the forgotten work of modern photographer Kati Horna
• At Night – Andrea Levers
• John Minihan on a day in London with Francis Bacon and William S. Burroughs
• Legal fight over the $127 million sale of a Leonardo da Vinci painting entangles Sotheby’s
• Read The New Yorker‘s critical take on the new Francis Picabia retrospective at MoMA
• Are utopian ideas good for architecture?

Philosophy & Theory

• Boredom gets a bad rap, but its defenders include Bertrand Russell, Nietzsche, Sontag
• An inside look at Philipp Preuss’ new stage adaptation of Albert Camus‘ 1942 novel L’Étranger in Berlin
• Carl Jung Writes a Review of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Music

• David Bowie Talks and Sings on The Dick Cavett Show (1974)
• Did you know the Sex Pistols’ debut album cover was inspired by the modernist magazine Blast?
• Philip K. Dick’s favorite classical music: A free, 11-hour playlist
• Can You Hear Agnes Martin’s Serenity in John Zorn’s Frenzied Music?
• Disputed Beethoven manuscript fails to sell at auction. Sotheby’s blames a music professor
• From Kanye to Public Enemy: 10 key musical moments in Spike Lee movies
• Reading Albert Murray in the Age of Trump

Film & TV

• Hear Stanley Kubrick’s rare 1965 interview with The New Yorker
• How Stanley Kubrick made his masterpieces: an introduction to his obsessive approach to filmmaking
• The films of Fritz Lang include the first examples of sci-fi film, serial killer movies & film noir
• Sculpting in Time by Andrey Tarkovsky
• After being cancelled by Comedy Central, Larry Wilmore has a new home with ABC
• Ridley Scott: five essential films
• Get the inside story on the opening titles of David Fincher’s Panic Room
• From Kanye to Public Enemy: 10 key musical moments in Spike Lee movies

News & Politics

• Stephanie Boland launches a Twitter thread asking women: ‘best time you’ve had your own topic explained to you?’
• To Kill a Mockingbird removed from Virginia schools for racist language
• Zadie Smith on optimism and despair
• “The job of writers is to carry on defying the normalization of what is happening” – Zadie Smith
• What’s changed, and what hasn’t, in the town that inspired To Kill a Mockingbird
• Reading Albert Murray in the Age of Trump

Miscellaneous

• CFP: Ted Hughes & Place, University of Huddersfield, June 2017
• Interested in learning about World War I through war diaries, visual art, & trauma theories? Check out MLC practicum opps