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On the Record
... member in good standing of what Jonathan Franzen, in the midst of his recent brush with celebrity, called the "high-art literary tradition." If Twain often impersonated a dyspeptic curmudgeon...
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Boxcars, Shostakovich, and the Poor
... advantage of. In either case, it doesn’t affect the greatness of her work. The art continues to move people. To make us think. BF: You specialize in ambiguity and empathy. You embrace complexity. You...
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Reasons to Believe
... order and an unapologetic elitist and cultural reactionary, he had nothing but contempt for identity politics, vanguard art and literature, and the technocrats of the multiversity. His stature as a...
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His Back Pages
... with French culture through his criticism and translation work. The essays gathered in the collection The Art of Hunger (1991) are a prelude to the project for which he was best known before he hit...
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Society's Child
... youth had experienced “total extinction,” and along with it many of the social pressures that had shaped her life and art. But aren’t those conventions simply less visible now? This is the bitterest...
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Montaigne, Ben-Hur, and JFK
... and totally different, and movies are a peculiar art form. Film is the only art form that lacks mind, because there's no way the individual writer can supply it with ideas. Directors make their...
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HIPPIE VERSUS NERD
... world that picture. (As it should be, more prominent figures in the so-called Whole Earth network, such as Howard Rheingold, Art Kleiner, and Kevin Kelly, are discussed more fully.) My small role in...
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HIPPIE VERSUS NERD
... boxes, in the process advancing the state of the art in blue-box technology. At Jobs’s suggestion, the duo started selling their devices around the Berkeley dorms for $150 apiece. “It was a pretty...
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Uneasy does it
... assessment of Schulz and an obliquely autobiographical meditation on the making of art by a guy who had an essentially comfortable upbringing in the American suburbs. "Schulz wasn't an artist because he...
