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Saul Bellow on the Artist’s Imperative
How do you judge a work of art? What is the artist's first imperative? Here's Saul Bellow's take — from a letter to Alfred Kazin:"The first criterion is enjoyment, and so are the second…
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Saul Bellow on “victimization” — and Allan Bloom on Bellow: Quotes of the Day
"I came some time ago to think of despair and victimization as being at the service of the ruling class and the whole social edifice. it is the way in which imagination and intelligence…
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Rick Moody, David Lehman on Bob Dylan, and . . . Cher? Wednesday, January 19, 7-10 PM. 14th Street Y, 344 East 14th Street New York, NY 2011
The back story: Once upon a time William G. Scheele, photographer and equipment/stage manager for The Band and Bob Dylan from 1969 to 1976, snapped a red-tinted picture of Dylan and The Band jamming with,…
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Dispatch from Istanbul by Ming Holden
Ed note: Our friend Ming Holden, whom David and I met while visiting Mongolia in 2009 traveled to Istanbul last fall to take part in WALTIC 2010. We asked her to share her thoughts…
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Quote of the Day – Winston Churchill
From Bryan Garner, ed, Garner's Modern American Usage (Oxford University Press): The spurious rule about not ending sentences with prepositions is a remnant of Latin grammar, in which a preposition was the one word…
