May 2012
44 posts
Desire Outside of the Missionary Position
“Desire and its unsettlements of the soul are as central to John Irving’s work as lost fathers. You could say that our sexual longings are compensatory, and that desire for what is forbidden or taboo is part of the long detective hunt for what we have lost and can never find. Perhaps — but reading Irving, it seems to me that what he is saying about desire outside of the missionary position...
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Correction in NY Times:
“An earlier version of this post included a photo published in error. It showed Andrew Garfield, the actor who played Eduardo Saverin in the movie “The Social Network,” not Mr. Saverin himself.”
Via Andrew.
The Myth About Marriage by Garry Wills | NYRblog |... →
“The early church had no specific rite for marriage. This was left up to the secular authorities of the Roman Empire, since marriage is a legal concern for the legitimacy of heirs. When the Empire became Christian under Constantine, Christian emperors continued the imperial control of marriage, as the Code of Justinian makes clear. When the Empire faltered in the West, church courts took up...
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Steve McQueen > Steve McQueen.
Hunger for it
“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it...
“In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it...”
– Janet Flanner, “Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939”
From the Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
“I began to hate him quite openly, and once I pushed him on a street in Paris. I pushed him because I wanted to show him that I was not afraid of him. Diaghilev hit me with his cane because I wanted to leave him. He felt that I wanted to go away, and therefore he ran after me. I half ran, half walked. I was afraid of being noticed. I noticed that people were looking. I felt a pain in my leg...
“I can’t help but notice, that when I finally write a book in which there are no...”
– Michael Cunningham, when he was asked about the success of his novel, “The Hours.”
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Most surprising spam this week:
Subject: Someone to spank and milk?
Edmund White on John Updike
granta:
‘…sometimes his eloquence devolves into nonsense – he compares the rain on wicker furniture to ‘a mist like the vain assault of an atomic army’, whatever that means.’
L.A. Louver: Crescent City: a hyperopera →
lalouver:
Rogue Wave ‘09 artist Olga Koumoundouros is a contributing artist of Crescent City: a hyper opera, The Industry’s highly anticipated inaugural production.
Six visual artists (Mason Cooley, Brianna Gorton, Katie Grinnan, Alice Konitz, Jeff Kopp and Olga Koumoundouros) have created sculptural installations/sets for the production of Crescent City, which will be viewed as...
April 2012
88 posts
