November 2011
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"Kill the Messenger" by John Wesley Harding aka...
The messenger came with bad news from the town. Said, “The phone lines are on strike and the doormen are all down. They’ve turned your den of thieves into a temple. They need someone of stature who can set them an example.” And the people said, “Two and two is four, Don’t tell us anymore, We all know the score. We will kill the messenger.”
Wesley Stace, Steve...
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Errol Morris' The Umbrella Man for the NYTimes →
Click the link to watch Errol Morris’ short documentary to mark the 48th anniversary of JFK’s assassination. I love how he has us playing into conspiracy theory, just to show how much we want to believe the out of the ordinary. I guess you say that about everything Morris does.
NYPL Wire–The New York Public Library: It's... →
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The Hon. Powell Clayton: Union general, US senator, governor of Arkansas, and first ambassador to Mexico. Survived an assassination attempt by Ku Klux Klan members in 1868, when violence ripped through the state during the presidential election, and succeeded in creating Arkansas’…
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“…time past is not believed to have any bearing upon time present or...”
– Joan Didion, “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream”—the first essay in Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
A revisit to Didion’s essays of the 60s after our event with her and Sloane Crosley last night. In person, Didion spoke sparingly, but in a way where you can tell words are...
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Stream JOAN DIDION in conversation with Sloane... →
“When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.” —Joan Didion, Blue Nights
Joan Didion dwells on mortality throughout her most recent memoir, Blue Nights, in which she tries to cope with, or at least understand, the loss of her daughter, Quintana Roo. Didion is well-known as a fiction author, playwright and, most notably, non-fiction essayist. She is widely...
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Patti Smith to the People's Library
i am with you all from across the sea every concert, interview etc i call out to occupy and support those that do.
what you are doing is only a beginning. if it gets too tough in the winter get healthy regroup and come back. don’t be sorry about anything.
give everyone a salute from me
people have the power
patti
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WatchGilberto Gil at LIVE on Thursday! His voice is still as crisp as ever. Make sure you stick around to watch his cover of “No Woman, No Cry”.
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Christopher Hitchens' reading list for an 8 year...
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Christopher Hitchens was asked by 8-year old, Mason Crumpacker (!!!) what she should read.
He suggested Greek & Roman myths, particularly those by Robert Graves, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Richard Dawkins’ “The Magic of Reality,” Ayaan Hirsi Ali, PG Wodehouse, David Hume, and Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities.”
[via Galleycat]
We love this list, and Mason Crumpacker...
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“[The vanished are just.]
That’s how we’ll fade, too.”
– Hans Magnus Enzensberger, from “The Vanished” (via the-final-sentence)
WatchAnnemarie Jacir, the ground-breaking Palestinian filmmaker, discusses production on her next film. She’ll be here with Danny Glover and Peter Scarlet in just 3 hours!
“I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable...”
– Brian Eno (PopTech 2006) rocked this quote right on The Colbert Report last night by performing an a cappella rendition of “Lean on Me,” with Michael Stipe and Stephen Colbert.
(via AUSTIN KLEON)
He’ll also be at LIVE on Sunday!
Alice James by Jean Strouse reviewed by Dead... →
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Topics discussed include illness, failure, Freudian psychology, sexuality, biography, and the dynamics in one quite exceptional family.
Very much worth a read. And we’re not just saying that because Jean’s a friend of ours.
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Mary Beard "On Tyrants" for BBC 4's A Point of... →
“Mary suggests modern and ancient tyrant are portrayed as sharing a penchant for eccentric accommodation, like Gaddafi’s tent and Nero’s infamous ‘Golden House’. And they seem to enjoy dubious hobbies - such as Emperor Domitian’s obsession with stabbing flies and Gaddafi’s obsessive collection of pictures of Condoleeza Rice, which were stuck in a...
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Brian Eno on Sound Opinions →
He’ll be on stage this Sunday with Anish Kapoor and Peter Sellars for LIVE from the NYPL presents Rolex Arts Weekend!
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Anonymous asked: What is Paul Holdengraber's 7-word bio?
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“Curious, talkative, impulsive, impatient, forgetful am I”
– Tom Brokaw’s 7-word bio
LIVE asks each of its guests to submit one. What would be yours?
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Watch“Refazenda” by Gilberto Gil
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“Aren’t all photographs cropped? When you take a picture, you’re...”
– Errol Morris, Believing is Seeing.
Tickets still available to see him speak about his book and career tonight.
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If Tom Brokaw ran for president in 2016, what would be his campaign song?
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“It is not indispensable to read a book. It’s enough to touch it, and by a...”
– — Umberto Eco, with a twinkle in his eye, responding to a Norwegian reporter’s question about how he reads so many books. Full interview here. Hear him at LIVE from the NYPL next week! (via nypl)
Just sold out! Still tickets available to Errol Morris tomorrow, though! 