Archive for January 20th, 2008
Martin Luther King Day
By Tom Teicholz at 20 January, 2008, 11:19 pm
If you need to be reminded of why this holiday is
so important, check out the sections on the fight for civil rights in America
in the Audio version of “The People’s
History of The United States: Highlights from The 20th Century
(Abridged) by Howard Zinn and read by Matt Damon (Why Damon? Remember the
speech Damon gives in “Good [...]
Reading through the stack
By Tom Teicholz at 20 January, 2008, 11:13 pm
The Sunday New York Times Art & Leisure had a nice piece
on Jimmy Breslin, who increasingly seems the last link to a generation of
columnists such as Murray Kempton, and others who predated him such as Joe
Mitchell and A.J. Liebling and Damon Runyon.
David Denby goes to great length in The New Yorker to
explore Otto Preminger’s famous [...]
Wham-O creator Richard Knerr dies at 82
By Tom Teicholz at 20 January, 2008, 10:00 pm
Genius comes in many forms. Richard
Knerr, is the man who brought to the world (he didn’t invent, he
marketed) such products as the Hula Hoop, the Frisbee, SuperBall, the
Slip ‘N Slide, and Silly String. Simply put: Are these not essential
artifacts of our times? Doesn’t the mere mention of them trigger happy
memories, childhood associations — don’t they [...]
French novels about the Nazi era — a trend?
By Tom Teicholz at 20 January, 2008, 9:52 pm
Sign and Sight is a website that provides a roundup of European cultural journalism. In this week’s magazine roundup there was this item:
Le Nouvel Observateur 10.01.2008 (France)
“What he says is scary.” With these words the magazine introduces its interview with Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, whose new novel
“Le Village de l’Allemand ou le journal des freres [...]