Curiosities
May 9, 2013
Ray Harryhausen Dies at 92 0
by Nick Moran
Visual effects virtuoso Ray Harryhausen died this week at the age of 92. Harryhausen was first inspired to take up movie-making when he watched King Kong with his childhood friend Ray Bradbury, and his pioneering career spanned over forty years. Over at Vulture, you can check out a couple of his most well-known scenes. To [...]
May 9, 2013
PEN World Voices Festival 0
by Nick Moran
I spent last weekend as a correspondent for the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. As such, I covered two events for the organization: Friday night’s ninth annual Translation Slam and Sunday afternoon’s Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture featuring Sonia Sotomayor. (I also submitted a pretty sweet author photograph, if I do say [...]
May 8, 2013
Orlando 0
by Rhian Sasseen
“I have often thought that if I were ever a drag queen, and more specifically that if I were ever a drag queen who was a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race, I would play Virginia Woolf — or rather, Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf — in the Snatch Game episode when the contestants don their [...]
May 8, 2013
“The Threadbare Art of My Eye” 0
by Rhian Sasseen
As Robert Lowell put it: “sometimes everything I write / with the threadbare art of my eye / seems a snapshot.” Poetry and photography.
May 8, 2013
Best Title or Best Title? 0
by Rhian Sasseen
According to the New York Times, a “vigilante copy editor” has hit the sculpture park of the Pratt Institute.
May 8, 2013
The Interpretation of Dreams 0
by Rhian Sasseen
“Why, for instance, did I dream I had surged up through the lawn of Toronto’s Victoria College and clomped into the library, decomposing and covered with mud? The librarian didn’t notice a thing, which, in the dream, I found surprising. Was this an anxiety dream? If so, which anxiety?” Margaret Atwood’s dream diary.