November 2009
35 posts
“Javier Marías is the most important intellectual figure that you’ve probably never heard of.”
Flavorpill: A lot of literature tackles unanswerable questions and subjects — what is the purpose of writing for you?
Javier Marías: I think it was Faulkner who once said that when you strike a match in a dark wilderness it is not in order to see anything better lighted, but just in order...
In September of 2002, before a reading from his...
New York City - 1970's
outerworldly:
Last night I finally caught up with my friend Ben, who I’d met in Boston some years back. He suggested that we attend 92YTribeca’s free screening of four films that captured New York City in the 1970’s. They were delightful!
Descriptions were stolen from the Y’s website.
Bowery Men’s Shelter (10 min) Bowery Men’s Shelter is the portrait of the many alcoholics, drug addicts...
Audio: Philip Levine at the 92Y Poetry Center in...
Just a reminder about tonight’s free screening at 92YTribeca (6:30pm) of four short films about and from 1970’s NYC. The films are being provided by the New York Public Library, on 16mm print.
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FREE Screening: New York on Film in the 1970s →
Perhaps you’ve seen pictures on New York City in the 1970’s? Or maybe you lived here, or know people who did, and are fascinated by their stories.
Next Wed, Nov 18 at 92YTribeca, you can further indulge your interest in 1970’s New York City by attending a free screening of four films (Bowery Men’s Shelter; Crosby Street; Huberts and Coney Island) that capture New York City in...
Hey y’all, remember MTV Cribs?
Good time, good times. What if we did that, but with refrigerators. Would you want to see that video…a 92Y Fridges, so to speak?
92YFridges - Episode 1: Jenny 8. Lee. Yah?
For any fan of Nabokov →
mzchief:
it’s a cool podcast.
When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left behind the fragments of an unfinished novel on 138 hand-written notecards. After much deliberation, his son Dmitri has now decided to have them compiled as a book under Nabokov’s original title—The Original of Laura. Next Monday, upon Laura’s publication, the 92Y Poetry Center is proud to host A Celebration of...
How Junot Diaz, Kazuo Ishiguro and Orhan Pamuk... →
(via anin)Mr. Pamuk writes by hand, in graph-paper notebooks, filling a page with prose and leaving the adjacent page blank for revisions, which he inserts with dialogue-like balloons. He sends his notebooks to a speed typist who returns them as typed manuscripts; then he marks the pages up and sends them back to be retyped. The cycle continues three or four times.Pamuk makes his first appearance...
Biologist and naturalist Jeff Corwin,reporter for MSNBC’s landmark Future Earth series, will be at 92Y this Sunday, Nov 8. Corwin will speak about the effect humans have had on our planet’s inhabitants, many which are on the brink of extinction, and conservation efforts made for endangered species and ecosystems around the globe. Use discount code “COR” at checkout to purchase a ticket...
Mos Def in Conversation with Anthony DeCurtis →
lovealesia:
casabey:
Mos Def discusses his music, his acting, his social and political perspective, and his vision of the role that artists must play in the public world.
Definitely worth a listen. It’s always refreshing to hear an artist expound on their political and social beliefs in an open forum without fear. And the voice makes it even better.
You can watch video from this talk here.
mmddyyyy:
One should never tell anyone anything or give information or pass on stories or make people remember beings who have never existed or trodden the earth or traversed the world, or who, having done so, are now almost safe in uncertain, one-eyed oblivion. Telling is almost always done as a gift, even when the story contains and injects some poison, it is also a bond, a granting of trust,...
