February 2011
55 posts
January 2011
29 posts
“…I have often longed for a moratorium on romanticized discussions of...”
– Shaping a Southern Soundscape
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film... →
Twain, Huck and Jim →
The problematic ending of “Huckleberry Finn”
“in all Latin American writers is an influence that comes from two main lines of...”
– Roberto Bolaño
How a Gentleman Prepares Breakfast →
1. Wake up in a Georgian country house with a hangover of biblical proportions. Slide your arm from beneath the slender alabaster neck of the recumbent debutante and silently pick your way through the detritus of last night’s party to the kitchen.
2. As soft golden sunlight arcs low across the paddock and gilds the chromework of the Aga like melted butter, find a big pan.
3. Heat an...
The workers who risk their lives for honey,... →
“Being a teenage girl is not all about your fucked-up relationship with food or...”
– Teenage Blood Running in Our Veins
“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution,...”
– Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
“Many years later”, the tenor saxophonist Bradford Marsalis recalled, “a lot of younger musicians were hanging around with Elvin Jones, and they were talking about, ‘Man, you know, you guys had an intensity when you were playing with Coltrane. I mean, what was it like? How do you play with that kind of intensity?’ And Elvin Jones looks at them and says, ‘You gotta be willing to die with the...
When Insurers Put Profits Before People →
