Archive for March, 2008
Crazy Men Profiled
By Tom Teicholz at 20 March, 2008, 11:43 am
Whole lotta crazy guys being profiled in the magazines.
You can start at Vanity Fair where there is a strange article by Brian McNally, the restauranter who seemed to catch the zeitgeist of the 80’s and 90’s and seems to have imploded in this century — divorced, he made his way to Vietnam where he writes [...]
Writer-in-Residence
By Tom Teicholz at 19 March, 2008, 10:26 am
This morning as I meditated on ways in which to better support TOMMYWOOD, as I do many mornings, the following words came to mind: “Writer-in-residence.”
Writer-in-residence.
I totally love the sound of that. Why not? I can imagine a cultural, not-for-profit, think tank or other institution deciding to make me their writer-in-residence. I’d certainly be willing to [...]
Report from France’s book fair
By Tom Teicholz at 18 March, 2008, 11:04 am
This year’s Salon du livre honored Israeli literature on the occasion of Israel’s 60th anniversary, a choice, that became controversial with Arab and Muslim countries threatening to boycott, with Israeli writers threatening to boycott because of the controversy and with the bookfair going off quite well, until a fake bomb threat was called in at [...]
Read More >>Report from France’s book fair
By Tom Teicholz at 18 March, 2008, 11:04 am
This year’s Salon du livre honored Israeli literature on the occasion of Israel’s 60th anniversary, a choice, that became controversial with Arab and Muslim countries threatening to boycott, with Israeli writers threatening to boycott because of the controversy and with the bookfair going off quite well, until a fake bomb threat was called in at [...]
Read More >>Report from France’s book fair
By Tom Teicholz at 18 March, 2008, 11:04 am
This year’s Salon du livre honored Israeli literature on the occasion of Israel’s 60th anniversary, a choice, that became controversial with Arab and Muslim countries threatening to boycott, with Israeli writers threatening to boycott because of the controversy and with the bookfair going off quite well, until a fake bomb threat was called in at [...]
Read More >>Report from France’s book fair
By Tom Teicholz at 18 March, 2008, 11:04 am
This year’s Salon du livre honored Israeli literature on the occasion of Israel’s 60th anniversary, a choice, that became controversial with Arab and Muslim countries threatening to boycott, with Israeli writers threatening to boycott because of the controversy and with the bookfair going off quite well, until a fake bomb threat was called in at [...]
Read More >>Readings and writings
By Tom Teicholz at 17 March, 2008, 10:13 am
Richard Price has sold movie rights to “Lush Life” to Scott Rudin/Miramax. Price will write the screenplay.
Edward Rothstein’s essay on public libraries, their past, present, and future, is worth reading and gives one a lot to think about it. Actually I found it quite inspiring. I’ve been mulling over my feelings about Dutton’s bookstore’s closing [...]
MAMET FINDS HIMSELF AS CONSERVATIVE
By Tom Teicholz at 14 March, 2008, 12:08 pm
Should we be surprised that David Mamet, a contrarian, finds himself less and less comfortable with liberal positions and more comfortable with those of conservatives? In the Village Voice, Mamet proclaims himself no longer a “brain-dead liberal”. For his full exegesis, click here. But Mamet certainly isn’t the first 60 year old to find himself [...]
Read More >>New Yorker Mag: PIcturing Auschwitz
By Tom Teicholz at 13 March, 2008, 10:13 am
Alec Wilkinson has a piece in this week’s New Yorker magazine about the recently recovered photo album of German officers at Auschwitz, including Mengele and Hoess — called “Picturing Auschwitz.” [To view the photos click here.]
There are a number of fascinating things in the article, including the tidbits about how various researchers were able to [...]
Mr. Sondheim performs for his public
By Tom Teicholz at 10 March, 2008, 12:09 pm
Well, not exactly but kind of.
My good friend Steve Roth, whom I’ve known since high school (we did the “Paul is dead” presentation together) emailed me from his Boston adjacent home to tell me he was flying in to LA and then heading up to Santa Barbara to see an on stage conversation between [...]