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Where I Am Sampling Culture
- LA Review of Books Great selection of literary reviews, essays, and interviews.
- My Entertainment World: Theatre Theater reviews from shows in Boston, New York, and Toronto, Canada.
- New Yorker: Page-Turner “Criticism, contention, and conversation about books that matter.”
- Slate Culture Gabfest My intellectual idols discuss culture, highbrow and low.
- The Millions An untidy source of interesting literary articles.
- The New York Times Sunday Book Review Lovely assortment of weekly news on new book releases, literary reviews, and articles.
Where I Go For Fun and Smart Videos/Comics
- Cracked: After Hours YouTube Channel Entertaining, goofy, but actually quite insightful source of info on pop culture.
- Current TV: That's Gay “Humorous deconstructions of gay stereotypes in media and popular culture.”
- PhD Comics Jokes on academia sorted with informative animated videos.
- Target: Women by Sarah Haskins Hilarious examples of sexist advertisements and cultural trends. The videos are now scattered, so YouTube/Google as many as you can!!
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Culture Update 05/21/2013: Orwell, Raymond Chandler, Good Will Hunting
Here are some of the projects I’m working on now: Orwell: Homage to Catalonia George Orwell has written some of my favorite fiction and nonfiction. Top points in my book go to 1984 and Down and Out in Paris and … Continue reading
Austen Challenge: Mansfield Park
And it’s back to the Austen. I hadn’t touched an Austen novel in six months, and that was a grave mistake. My score card on my Austen travels is dreadful: Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion much loved but read years … Continue reading
A Poem a Day: Poetic Bloodline
Here’s number 30, the end of this series of poetry. I have left out so many poets: Rilke, Rumi, Rimbaud, Shakespeare, Sexton, Ashberry, Baudelaire, Goethe, Petrarch, Benedetti…and these are only poets I know and like. If you “don’t like poetry,” … Continue reading
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A Poem a Day: Brecht
I knew today’s poet wrote polemic German plays, and that there is a style of drama sometimes named after him. I learned about him from a modern drama class, and from the documentary Theater of War (2008) (which I wrote … Continue reading
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A Poem a Day: The Second Coming
Arguably the most famous modern poem written in the English language, today we have William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” endlessly quoted and referenced in our culture: “The Second Coming” Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot … Continue reading
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A Poem a Day: Excerpt from Howl
Another dose of Ginsberg: I was not terribly (read: at all) interested in the Beat poets, until I saw the film Howl (2010) and discovered Allen Ginsberg. Although I began this poetry series with his “Kaddish”, “Howl” is the poem … Continue reading
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A Poem a Day: Sappho
Sappho was a Greek lyric poet who lived somewhere between 630 BCE and 570 BCE. She was born on the island of Lesbos, and yes, that is where the word lesbian originated from. I’ve heard scholars debate whether Sappho’s relationship … Continue reading
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A Poem a Day: Emily Dickinson
Today’s selection is from Emily Dickinson. I used to not have much patience for her clipped, cryptic lines of verse. But I was forced to write a paper about today’s selection, and I’ve come to see the boulder of ice … Continue reading
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A Poem a Day: Li Bai, Boozy Chinese Poet
Drinking Alone in the Moonlight Li Po (c. 750, “translated” by Ezra Pound, 1915) Amongst the flowers is a pot of wine I pour alone but with no friend at hand So I lift the cup to invite the shining … Continue reading
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A Poem a Day: Blazing Persian Devotion
Today’s selection is from the Persian poet Sanai. Rumi acknowledged Sanai and Attar as his two primary inspirations, saying, “Attar is the soul and Sanai its two eyes, I came after Sanai and Attar.” (1) This poem is a ghazal, … Continue reading
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The Educated Procrastinator 