From Daniel Zalewski’s admiring essay on Ian McEwan, “England’s national author”: “McEwan is a connoisseur of dread, performing the literary equivalent of turning on the tub faucet and leaving the room; the flood is foreseeable, but it still shocks when the water rushes over the edge. That’s how it is with the hounds that descend [...]
Archive for March 6th, 2009
England’s Connoisseur of Dread: Ian McEwan & The Art of Unease
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Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse: “Joe the Plumber” Sues Over Privacy Violations
Posted in Crimes & Misdemeanors, Joe the Plumber, Obama, Politics, Sign of the Apocalypse on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Joe the Plumber” is suing former Ohio officials for violating his privacy, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Employees of the state’s family services department (since resigned) checked Samuel Wurzelbacher for unpaid child support obligations, after Sen. John McCain elevated him to prominence. “You shouldn’t have to regret asking a reasonable question in a public forum of [...]
Tobias Wolff Wins “The Story Prize” for Short Fiction
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Literature, Writers & Writing on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“On Wednesday night, shortly after reading from his well-known story ‘Bullet in the Brain,’ Tobias Wolff was called back to the stage of the New School’s Tishman Auditorium to accept The Story Prize. The other two finalists were Jhumpa Lahiri’s best-selling Unaccustomed Earth (Knopf) and Joe Meno’s Demons in the Spring (Akashic Books). . . . The $20,000 award [...]
Travel Photo of the Day: Berlin (Germans On A Bridge; Naked People)
Posted in Europe, Foreign Travel, Photography, Sex & Gender on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From photographer Simon Høgsberg, a new work, We’re All Going To Die – 100 Meters of Existence, shot from the same spot over the course of 20 days during the summer of 2007, features 178 people walking across a railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin. One hundred meters wide, the image is scene in panels that [...]
