Articles by Emily Colette Wilkinson
April 20, 2010
The Modest Proposal Cookbook 0
Also at The Guardian, Penguin’s typo/Freudian slip heard round the world: a recipe for tagliatelli with “salt and freshly ground black people.”
April 20, 2010
The Historian, His Wife, Her Venom, His Rivals 0
At The Guardian, the intriguing case of historian Orlando Figes and his wife’s savage Amazon reviews of her husband’s rivals’ books. The case begs the question: should Amazon allow anonymous reviews?
April 19, 2010
Coeur de Pirate: Quebecoise Charm School 1
If you haven’t already, meet Coeur de Pirate, the beautiful and charming Quebec singer-songwriter Béatrice Martin. Her sound’s somewhere between Françoise Hardy and Icelandic band Seabear. Here’s the video for “Comme des Enfants” and here’s a fan-made video for “Printemps” (my favorite C de P song).
April 18, 2010
LDS Superstar: Parker & Stone’s The Book of Mormon 0
Some Mormons are excited about the recent news of Trey Parker and Matt Stone‘s forthcoming musical, The Book of Mormon: “How can they call us a cult once we’re headlining 52nd Street? The Jews got ‘Fiddler.’ The Catholics got ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘Doubt.’ It’s our time to shine.” Read more at the Salt [...]
April 18, 2010
Antony Gormley, Suicide Artist 0
According to the New York Post, a new installation by British artist Antony Gormley–life-sized, cast iron sculptures of men placed on rooftops and building ledges around the city–has caused some New Yorkers and NYPD officers to take the sculptures for live jumpers. Oh, the price of art!
April 18, 2010
The Humanities Ph.D.: Less Than Useless 0
Despair, debt, frustration, a decade in school rewarded with guaranteed joblessness. If this cocktail of woe sounds good to you, consider getting a Ph.D. in English, History, or any other humanities discipline. At the New York Times, yet another of the recent spate of articles explaining how utterly dismal the prospects of recent humanities Ph.D.s [...]
