“The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.” — Nelson Algren He would have been 102 today. Algren was the author of more than a dozen books. Born on March 28, 1909, in Detroit, he lived […]
Archives for March 2011
The Occupation Began Eight Years Ago Today
And We’re Still Counting The Cost of the War in Iraq (JavaScript Error)
Writers on Fighters
If it’s true that professional boxing now has 68 world title holders in 17 weight classes, as The Wall Street Journal recently reported, then it’s not surprising that AT THE FIGHTS: American Writers on Boxing, a new anthology from The Library of America, reads like an elegy for the fight game. More than five dozen […]
Manning Describes His Treatment for First Time
“Bradley Manning has been stripped naked every night and made to parade in front of his officers and guards in the nude” for the past nine days, according to The Guardian, which has just published Manning’s own description of his treatment. It is the first time Manning has spoken out about the details of his […]
More Friends for Bach?
Mike Lawrence sends word that he’s “off and running on BACH & more friends,” a companion film to his previous Bach & friends. “I have several players lined up, and I’ve contacted a bunch of big guns,” he says in an e-mail. He’s still waiting to hear whether the big guns will participate. That’s what […]
Homage to Brion Gysin
Ian MacFadyen’s astounding book-length essay about the avant garde artist-poet-novelist Brion Gysin, “A Trip from Here to There,” knocked me out. It had just been posted at RealityStudio, so I was raving about it — couldn’t help myself — to anyone within listening distance. Along came a savvy, multilingual writer I’m acquainted with, precisely the […]