Pretty thrilled to wake up this news. Thank you, Science. Thank you, brave monkeys. “Severe Diet Doesn’t Prolong Life, at Least in Monkeys”
The Public Theater 2012-3 Season.
Hope all of yous are having a lovely summer.
Early Bird Special: First a Mister Rogers remix, now a rock version of the Reading Rainbow theme song — best week ever.
Just mingling post event at the Hay Festival.
New Glarus Brewery, because when in Wisconsin…
Translated this one (“The Story, Victorious”) for Etgar Keret’s fantastic Suddenly, A Knock on the Door.
(Source: youtube.com)
awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Hunter S. Thompson and Bill Murray
This Tumblr (found via Peter Pawlick) makes me think of a favorite freakish pairing: Michael Jackson and Ariel Sharon.
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(Reblogged from lexi-gold)
You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there’s been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it’s a way of life for them. It doesn’t mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book—if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don’t. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise, to have set loose in them the consciousness that’s otherwise conditioned and hemmed in by all that isn’t fiction. This is something that every child, smitten by books, understands immediately, though it’s not at all a childish idea about the importance of reading.
Philip Roth, The Paris Review (via lexi-gold)
This interview was published in 1984 - feels about right to point to it on this week of thinking about children and how they consume books.
