“Authorities in Sarajevo plan to name a city square after the late U.S. author and activist Susan Sontag, who, during the Bosnian war, staged Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot there. . . . “Sontag’s insistence on staging the existential play in the besieged city drew attention to the country’s civil war. The Washington Post dubbed Sontag’s production [...]
Archive for April 7th, 2009
Sarajevo Honors Susan Sontag for “Waiting for Godot” Production
Posted in Europe, International Affairs, Literature, Plays & Playwrights, Politics, Writers & Writing on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Newly Found “Schindler’s List” Copy on Display in Australia
Posted in Books, Cinema, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Europe, International Affairs, Jewish Life, Museums & Exhibitions, Popular Culture, Religion, Writers & Writing on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“A list of Jews saved from the Nazi death camps during World War II by the German industrialist Oskar Schindler has been found in research notes at an Australian library and will go on public display on Tuesday. “The list of 801 Jewish men was found among six boxes of papers that belonged to the [...]
All Fired Up: Kindle Users Protest Increased e-Book Prices
Posted in Books, Business, Science & Technology on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“What’s the right price for an e-book? No more than $10, says a group of Amazon Kindle e-book owners — and they have found a novel way to make themselves heard. “Some 250 Kindle readers are using Amazon’s own book-tagging system to mark e-books priced more than $10 with the tag ‘9 99 boycott‘. Their [...]
