January 2012
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“There is, of course, a place for noise, as there is for daily lives. There is a...”
– Pico Iyer for Time Magazine. Iyer will be here to speak about his new book on Tuesday, February 7th. Get your tickets here!
The entry deadline for the PEN/E. O. Wilson... →
Click above to apply for the award. It was founded by the biologist, E. O. Wilson, who will be at LIVE on April 10. Past winner, Siddhartha Mukherjee, came to LIVE in 2010. Click here to watch the short!
Jennifer Egan's Favorite Books of All Time
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All time favorites: The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison Middlemarch, George Elliot David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
More recent favorites: Underworld, Don DeLillo A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
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There’s been this idea floating around the LIVE office (mainly...
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It’s tough being the last surviving member of your species. Sometimes it helps to sing about it.
(This video is from a theater company called the Civilians, who do a cool thing they call investigative theater. Check out more from their current project here.)
This is so strangely charming. E. O. Wilson may have a few things to say…
WatchIf you caught last night’s episode of 30 Rock, Steve Earle made a cameo at the end with Kenneth Ellen Parcell’s Ballad. Earle joined Wesley Stace and Josh Ritter on stage this past December! Watch the above video from the event, and catch Earle performing some more tunes.
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Northern Lights over Norwegian Laplands
This is beautiful. A little off-topic from our usual posts, but watch this while listening to St. Vincent’s appropriately titled “Northern Lights”.
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“This is proof of intelligence and courage…It is an historical event....”
– Claude Lanzmann discussing Turkish television station TRT’s airing of Shoah today. Shoah is Lanzmann’s 10 hour documentary about the Holocaust, where he talks to survivors, witnesses and Nazi officers and documents their first-hand accounts. The film was translated by the Aladdin project...
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“I would love, and I mean LOVE, to do a graphic novel à la Marjane Satrapi, whose...”
– Edwidge Danticat in a recent interview with Wild River Review.
It seems like she’s pretty busy, but all of you cartoonists out there, take note!
Celebrate Virginia Woolf’s birthday by enjoying her life’s work! Click here to read a selection of the novels that made her one of the most important modernist literary figures of the twentieth century!
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“Her questions testified to a wholesome and comprehensive human curiosity, and...”
– Edith Wharton, The Reef
Happy Birthday, Edith Wharton! Make sure to celebrate by reading, or listening, to her work for the rest of the day! Take your pick at Project Gutenberg.
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“We can’t change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the...”
– Pico Iyer, “The Doctor is Within”
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WatchHaunting clip for Werner Herzog’s upcoming documentary series, On Death Row.
“I am not an advocate of the death penalty. I do not even have an argument; I only have a story, the history of the barbarism of Nazi Germany. The argument that innocent men and women have been executed is, in my opinion, only a secondary one. A State should not be allowed—under any circumstance—to execute anyone...
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“When I go to the monastery that I’ve been going to for 20 years, I’ll take a...”
– Pico Iyer in the Boston Globe.
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WatchWatch LIVE’s Fall 2011 program with Robert Wilson, Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed & Lucinda Childs!
This Sunday at 7:30PM, stream the sold out Works & Process performance of The New York City Opera’s Prima Donna by Rufus Wainwright. NYCO’s George Steel will moderate a discussion with Wainwright and members of the creative team.
Watch the live broadcast of this performance...
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“Tariq is a man who has seen much of the worst, he sees what happens in the power...”
– Oliver Stone on Tariq Ali and American history from Rock Cellar Magazine.
Tariq Ali will take on the interviewing role TONIGHT! and ask Stone some more tough questions about the forgotten moments of American history, and what goes into making a documentary about them. Tickets are still available...
“Once you can recognize fear and paranoia then you begin to have the methods and...”
– Oliver Stone via Rock Cellar Magazine interview with Ed Rampell. Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali are coming to LIVE on January 19!
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"In these bad times when the fashion is to worship... →
Click the above link to read Tariq Ali’s “Remembering Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955)”. An account of a recent forgotten history that can somewhat prepare you for Ali’s arrival at LIVE along with Oliver Stone this Thursday. Along with the conversation, we’ll also be screening exclusive video clips at the event, so make sure to book your tickets now!
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WatchEdwidge Danticat speaking with Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman last year on the one year anniversary of Haiti’s devastating earthquake. Today, on the second anniversary, how are Haitians doing?
The relatively new comics journalism site, Cartoon Movement, published the first chapter of a 75-page comics journalism project that focuses on life in Haiti now, which still means camps for many....
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“His father was most touched, Iyer speculates, by the observation that the truest...”
– Liesl Schillinger, “Pico Iyer’s Kinship with Graham Greene”
Read Schillinger’s NYTimes review of Pico Iyer’s recent memoir, The Man Within My Head. She makes wonderful connections and references that can only lead you to a deeper hole of worthwhile reading. Iyer will...
“In music, the E chord is “supposed” to lead to an A chord, so when it leads to...”
– Joshua Cody, [sic] (via wwnorton)
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The Writers That Shadow Us
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PICO IYER on the ghost of Graham Greene. Iyer’s The Man Within My Head is published today. Graham Greene by Margaret Woods (2004). Courtesy of The Graham Greene Birthplace Trust
I had just arrived in Saigon — this was September 2004 — and, 15 hours out of sync after the long flight from California, I was wide-awake, adrenaline-quickened and eager to see everything as I hit...
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you...”
– E.B. White (via booksandnerds)
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“The child of tomorrow, I realized, may actually be ahead of us, in terms of...”
– Pico Iyer, “The Joy of Quiet”
Iyer will be at LIVE on February 7, and will unravel the mysterious communion he has always had with Graham Greene, which Iyer illuminates in The Man Within My Head. Iyer, at home nowhere, examines the points of contact between himself and Greene —...
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I shot Tariq Ali’s talk in Chicago for Haymarket Books this past Thursday . It’s worth a listen.
Ali will be on stage with Oliver Stone for LIVE’s opening night on January 19! They will continue their ongoing discourse about “forgotten—or deliberately buried—episodes” from American history, from the US intervention against the Russian Revolution to the...
