#Art
New Statesman provides an English
translation of the tax evasion charges China is laying against artist Ai Weiwei
as a means of suppressing his work: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2012/10/ai-weiwei-papers
August
interview with Ai Weiwei about censorship, China, and individual expression:
http://www.realitysandwich.com/ai_weiwei_dj_spooky
#Comics
I’m
not Tomine’s biggest fan, but I appreciated what he had to say about the
evolving art of cartooning/comics/ illustrating. I’m also a sucker for his
“Missed Connections” cover. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/10/29/urban-renewal-an-interview-with-adrian-tomine/
#Education
New technological
frontiers in learning a second language: http://www.salon.com/2012/10/27/whats_the_secret_to_learning_a_second_lanuage/
#Environment
When
is the human species going to hit its second inflection point? How our species’
success will destroy us. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/7146 #recommended
#Feminism
Looking
at several new books that deal with gender, feminism, and sexuality (The End of Men, How to Be a Woman, Heroines,
This is How You Lose Her) and where we are all losing out in the gender
divide: http://therumpus.net/2012/10/how-we-all-lose/
Two
interviews with the author of Heroines,
Kate Zambreno (essay-memoir-history-lit-theory hybrid about female modernist
authors)
http://believermag.tumblr.com/post/34763897153/why-dont-you-like-me-writers-tamara-faith-berger-andhttp://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/10/22/heroine-worship-talking-with-kate-zambreno/
Moore
lived in Cambodia and taught university women how to make zines: http://therumpus.net/2012/10/the-sunday-rumpus-interview-anne-elizabeth-moore/
#Film
Nice
completist review of the Coen
Brothers’ body of work, from one auteur theory enthusiast to another: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_completist/2011/08/i_watched_every_coen_brothers_movie.single.html
The
predicament of political filmmakers in China: http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/world-affairs/2012/10/hazards-independent-chinese-cinema #censorship
Following
the Wachowski siblings’ passion for unique storytelling and the journey of
filiming Cloud Atlas: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/10/120910fa_fact_hemon?currentPage=all
Puzzling
out the complicated paths of characters in Cloud
Atlas: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/10/27/cloud_atlas_meaning_what_does_the_wachowskis_movie_say_about_reincarnation.html
#Health
Treat
yo’self: Weeks worth of massaging does a body good. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/my-multiday-massage-a-thon.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all
A
tiny island in Greece has one of the longest average lifespans in the world. In
many ways the lifestyle reminds me of Indonesia, pre-processed food boom. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html?pagewanted=all #longevity
#International
Interview
with civil rights activist in China who has fought forced family planning
legislation and led class action suits against the Chinese government: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/human-rights/2012/10/chen-guangcheng-facts-have-blood-evidence
What
countries would be voting for Obama this month? http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/31/blue_planet?page=full
#Journalism
Specifically,
the ethics of found-out plagiarizer and science journalist Jonah Lehrer, But on
a grander scale, the state of branded journalism and pop science: http://nymag.com/news/features/jonah-lehrer-2012-11/#
Encounter was a cultural literary
arts magazine published out of Britain and covertly funded by the CIA as part
of the cold war agenda. http://www.newstatesman.com/node/135185
1960s
article about the resignation of Encounter
editor when he discovered the CIA was funding the publication. (You need a
NYTimes subscription to access this article) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70815FF3D5B107B93CAA9178ED85F438685F9
Censorship
in China: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2012/10/virus-censorship
#Literature
Survey
of HP Lovecraft’s body of work and how it has influenced culture, and how the
internet made all that influence possible. http://www.themorningnews.org/article/h.p.-lovecraft-author-is-dead #obituary
Neil
Gaiman created the holiday “All Hallows Eve,” a day to encourage children
reading “scary” stories. The Millions
has a list of recommended reads. http://www.themillions.com/2012/10/all-hallows-read-a-parents-guide-to-scary-books-for-young-readers.html #children’s lit #spooky
Excerpt
from the new David Foster Wallace biography by DT Max (see next link) http://www.themillions.com/2012/08/excerpt-the-opening-paragraphs-of-d-t-maxs-every-love-story-is-a-ghost-story-a-life-of-david-foster-wallace.html #biography #DFW
DT
Max wrote this piece in 2009 after DFW’s suicide. Give yourself a good chunk of
time to work through and process this thirteen page longread. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max?currentPage=all #biography #DFW #obituary
Ongoing
interest in articles dealing with parental aging http://www.vice.com/read/i-asked-my-dad-who-has-dementia-to-annotate-jonathan-franzens-how-to-be-alone- #photography #dementia
Certain
literature is there in times of grieving, heartbreak, and disappointment—but
what story can you turn to when you’re mourning the loss of a pet? http://www.themillions.com/2012/10/elegy-for-a-grey-cat-on-grief-books-and-his-dark-materials.html #grief
James
Pogue works out some of his John Jeremiah Sullivan jealousy: http://nplusonemag.com/the-son-shines-bright #SouthernLit
Series of essays by
Rachel Yoder from her collection The Hard
Problem: A Guide for the Intergalactic Writer Looking to Mate: http://therumpus.net/2012/11/three-short-essays-from-the-hard-problem-a-guide-for-the-intergalactic-writer-looking-to-mate/
#essay
#Music
THIS QUOTE: “As demure as she may be, this girl is also
intense and out for blood — of Red’s
title, Swift said, “All those emotions — spanning from intense love, intense
frustration, jealousy, confusion, all of that — in my mind, all those emotions
are red.” Not to put too fine a point on it, but in this she echoes another
passionate artist constrained by traditional expectations of femininity: Sylvia
Plath.” http://thisrecording.com/today/2012/10/30/in-which-we-get-taylor-swift-alone.html
The tiny echelon of producers and
top-liners pumping out all our Top 40 hooks: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/26/120326fa_fact_seabrook?currentPage=all
#Photography
The Atlantic has been busting fake
photos of Hurrican Sandy damage: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/10/instasnopes-sorting-the-real-sandy-photos-from-the-fakes/264243/ #sandy
Series
of photos and quotes from four young Chinese photographers: http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/world-affairs/2012/10/generation-next-photo-essay
#Relationships
Worries
and joys while dating a 500 pound man: http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/it-happened-to-me-i-fell-in-love-with-a-500-pound-man #essay
#Travel
Coming
to terms with death during the Running of the Bulls: http://www.themorningnews.org/article/the-bull-passes-through
A
tiny span of the Massachusetts coast seems to be a magnet for everything spooky
and strange: http://www.themorningnews.org/article/cape-fear
A
recent visit to post-Fidel Cuba, tentatively developing: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/11/new-cuba/gorney-text #international
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