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1939: not much to dance about
What was America like in 1939? Between then and today, there was a tremendous anatomy of change, and a good many conditions that prevailed then seem odd today. The United States was on the threshold of a new era, but … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Amos 'n' Andy radio show, Anti-Defamation League, Anti-Semitism America 1930's, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Charles Lindbergh, David Turner JPost blog, Fritz Kuhn Bund, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, NAACP 1930's, Philip Roth, Roosevelt New Deal, The Scottsboro Boys
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like a bone in the throat
Coincidence. She is in a room beside Adolf Hitler…. Anne Frank is about our current struggle to engage the past shorn from nostalgia, disavowal and kitsch. Stuck in the throat. A chicken bone stuck in the throat. A wish bone … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Frank, Anne Frank Madame Tussaud Berlin, Anne Frank Museum, Diary of Anne Frank, eva schloss, Francine Prose, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, meyer levin, Otto Frank, Pablo Picasso, Philip Roth, Primo Levi
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goodbye columbus
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J. ) Goodbye Columbus and Five Short Stories Meridian Fiction, 1960 Design: Paul Rand Rand’s lyrical, playful cover for the paperback version of Roth’s first bookâmaybe the last time one … Continue reading
color and the language of second nature
The power of color. Is color more a presence than a sign, a force, ” the most sacred element of all visible things.” Is color primary and not secondary to form? Is color fundamentally involved in the making of culture … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Goethe, John Ruskin, John Verelst, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Proust, Paul Kane, Philip Roth, Philip Whalen, Primo Levi, sidney nolan art, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs
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writing for love or money? or rank?
Writing for love or money. Obviously, not everyone is Franz Kafka who leaves instructions to have their manuscripts torched after their demise. Given the current legal wrangling over the cache of Kafka papers, maybe Max Brod should have been a … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Art Spiegelman, Arthur Miller, carmen calil, cormac McCarthy, danielle steele, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, Harold Bloom, Harry Potter, j.k. rowling, joseph heath, Max Brod, Philip Roth, stephen king, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas pynchon
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the horse has already vaulted
The unfettered experience. Its the zipper, stupid. But, does promiscuity necessarily involve forms of immorality? Is there a value in promiscuity if it is located in the pursuit of ideals? .Promiscuity in a Western context seems to have a negative … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony weiner, charles colson, D.H. Lawrence, David Frum, elsworth baker, Hilary Clinton, Jefferson Airplane, Jonathan Kay, Kenneth Rexroth, larry flynt, larry flynt one nation under sex, Marie Antoinette, Martin Buber, michael bayles, michael walzer, paul langford, Philip Roth, political pornography, Sir Robert Walpole, Wilhelm Reich, William James
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Doin’ the right thing. the white stuff
Simple. A simple government.Common Sense. “Family Values” Its a common refrain that wraps up a political agenda into a wider context of right wing reactionary politics in which the apparent simplicity of the message is not detachable from a politics … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Spillius, Alexis de Tocqueville, Charlie Rose, Chuck Norris, John Edwards, Keanu Reeves, Michael Medved, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Natalie Portman, Pat Buchanan, Philip Roth, Ron Paul GOP, Sarah Palin, Steve malzberg, tabatha Southey, Tyra Banks, Tyra Banks Show, Yamina Benguigui
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