An article in the French newspaper Le Monde about untamed literature, Cut Up or Shut Up, and "the 'Cut-Up' movement," drew a pledge 54 years later from S/U's Staff of Thousands.
Adam Schumaker, Director of Education at The Gilmore, talks about the impact of their $300,000 prizes along with role of The Gilmore Fellowship in the field.
A flood of books, music and images is overwhelming creative markets. Some of it is democratization of tools. Some of it is pure AI. Is this a crisis or an opportunity?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oi1zTIVpwKE&version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent The current issue of “The New York Review of Books” includes my essay on state of American orchestras
I met Jim Harrison only once, in 1968, when we were on a "little magazine" panel with Russell Banks, Anne Waldman, and Charles Newman. Even then Harrison was a "character," a voluble personality who cut quite a figure. He sported a black patch on his blind left eye, a rakishly tilted straw hat, and a hand-carved walking stick.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PocpiBx3hfk&version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent Beginning with my “New York Times” piece on July 4, this is the fifth in a series of