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In den 50er-Jahren wollte Theodor W. Adorno die Mentalität der Deutschen testen – die verstörenden Ergebnisse hielt er lieber unter Verschluss. Nun werden sie erforscht. trib.al/BOxve6b
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“The moral responsibility of the artist is to make something real happen, whatever it takes.” —Harry Mathews buff.ly/txm75ph
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Wifredo Lam’s “La jungla evokes the spirit world brought from Africa by a people who worked Cuba’s cane fields, a formidable collective consciousness in which nature is a divine force.” —@cocofusco1960 go.nybooks.com/4eIY1wV
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Nice day for a revolution: Why May Day should be a date to stand up and change the system (2011)
independent.co.uk/news/world/pol…
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no, Mary McCarthy & Edmund Wilson would not be considered "academics"; Wilson in particularly would have bristled at the notion. presumably, this brilliant literary figure could have had a life's sinecure at Harvard, Yale, Princeton but insisted upon his independence.
so too with Susan Sontag, who also wanted to remain independent.
yet, they were very friendly with academics, & no doubt gave lectures & talks at universities. I did not know Wilson at all but knew Susan somewhat: she was famous for showing up at lectures without having evidently prepared as (it is said) Oliver Sacks did also.
hermann karlovich Joe A@hermannkarlovic
@EvaRiver4 @JoyceCarolOates But Sontag wasn’t an academic, and Walter Benjamin wasn’t either. Do critics like Mary MacCarthy and Edmund Wilson count as academics, though they only occasionally taught to make ends meet. And Bloom was big ole career academic
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in person, Leslie Fiedler was very agreeable, like Norman Mailer. both understood the first rule of entertainment: be interesting.
Norman believed that, in public, he had to put on a show of some kind, provocative, sometimes playful, always aggressive, attention-grabbing.
Norman once said that, as soon as you glance down to read from something prepared, you lost eye contact with the audience & lost their attention.
(this is not untrue, in fact.)
Vick Mickunas@BookNookVick
@JoyceCarolOates Late in his life I had Fiedler on my radio show. He was gruff but rather charming. An appropriate bookend for the two shows I did with Harold Bloom! Morbidly depressed critics can be so entertaining!
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How not to read JG Ballard
This new biography has done a great writer a disservice
Edmund Gordon
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"I was trapped in her world with her, trembling. She had weeks left to live and had spent so much time writing about how to get away with murder. I fantasized that she might try to kill me." —Elena Gosálvez Blanco on Patricia Highsmith yalereview.org/article/workin…
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Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was - Angélica Gorodischer
translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
cc: @astridwasis

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