While East Coasters are still dealing with the wrath of Hurricane Irene, the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina passed yesterday. NPR has a timely interview with host Michel Martin, musician Irvin Mayfield and Keith Spera, author of Groove Interrupted: Loss, Renewal and the Music of New Orleans. Likewise, Rivka Galchen‘s 2009 Harper’s essay “Disaster Aversion” bears re-reading.
Katrina’s Anniversary
75 Notes for an Unwritten Essay on Literary Prizes
Over on The Busy Signal, Matthew Hunte presents 75 Notes For An Unwritten Essay on Literary Prizes. (22. “Want it? Want it? Of course I wanted it. I wanted it so fucking bad I could taste it!”)
On Target
We might not get to choose between Peeta and Gale, but we can have Katniss Everdeen's archery skills. Since The Hunger Games became popular, young girls are picking up bows and arrows more than ever before. Membership at USA Archery has doubled in the past two years, and people are buying recurve bows faster than they can make them. Perhaps they'd also enjoy the Hunger Games day camp we wrote about earlier.
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The Dream
"The dream is a second life." On Gérard de Nerval and lobster-walking.
Tuesday New Release Day: Max, Evison, Levithan
New this week is D.T. Max's biography Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, which we excerpted last week. Also out are The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison and Every Day by David Levithan.
Meet Ironheart
"I just think it'll have such a positive effect on the geek community, the black girl community, the black geek girl community... just opening the doors of your mind to what you can achieve." The newest character to wear Iron Man's suit? A 15-year-old girl named Riri Williams, reports NPR. As for your own inner geek, might they be interested in an unauthorized corporate history of Marvel Comics?
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