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Dylan wins Pulitzer (and I don’t)
By Tom Teicholz at 8 April, 2008, 9:29 am
The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday. A special citation was given for Bob Dylan. He didn’t even submit, but they decided to give him an award anyhow.
In the meantime, I must confess that for the first time in my life, an article of mine was submitted for consideration for the Pulitzer Prize in feature [...]
Dylan wins Pulitzer (and I don’t)
By Tom Teicholz at 8 April, 2008, 9:29 am
The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday. A special citation was given for Bob Dylan. He didn’t even submit, but they decided to give him an award anyhow.
In the meantime, I must confess that for the first time in my life, an article of mine was submitted for consideration for the Pulitzer Prize in feature [...]
My “Smoke” Problem
By Tom Teicholz at 24 March, 2008, 10:53 am
There’s something that’s been bothering me while reading the reviews about Nicholson Baker’s new book “Human Smoke.” I couldn’t put my finger on it, but it basically boiled down to the question, “Are you saying we shouldn’t have gone to war against Hitler? That doing so was not worth doing?” But I hadn’t quite articulated [...]
Read More >>My “Smoke” Problem
By Tom Teicholz at 24 March, 2008, 10:53 am
There’s something that’s been bothering me while reading the reviews about Nicholson Baker’s new book “Human Smoke.” I couldn’t put my finger on it, but it basically boiled down to the question, “Are you saying we shouldn’t have gone to war against Hitler? That doing so was not worth doing?” But I hadn’t quite articulated [...]
Read More >>My “Smoke” Problem
By Tom Teicholz at 24 March, 2008, 10:53 am
There’s something that’s been bothering me while reading the reviews about Nicholson Baker’s new book “Human Smoke.” I couldn’t put my finger on it, but it basically boiled down to the question, “Are you saying we shouldn’t have gone to war against Hitler? That doing so was not worth doing?” But I hadn’t quite articulated [...]
Read More >>My “Smoke” Problem
By Tom Teicholz at 24 March, 2008, 10:53 am
There’s something that’s been bothering me while reading the reviews about Nicholson Baker’s new book “Human Smoke.” I couldn’t put my finger on it, but it basically boiled down to the question, “Are you saying we shouldn’t have gone to war against Hitler? That doing so was not worth doing?” But I hadn’t quite articulated [...]
Read More >>Fact vs Fiction
By Tom Teicholz at 21 March, 2008, 2:26 pm
There’s a post by Bob Harris on Paper Cuts, the New York Times’ Blog about books, about fact vs fiction, a topic that’s gained currency in light of all the recent faked memoris. Harris turns to author Kathryn Harrison to discuss a similar set of facts that appears in both a work of her fiction [...]
Read More >>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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]