Steve Almond treks deeper into familiar territory in the latest issue of The Baffler, wherein the essayist takes on “our lazy embrace of [Jon] Stewart and [Stephen] Colbert,” an undoubtedly strong “testament to our own impoverished comic standards.” Indeed, Almond notes, our satirists and comics today remain “careful never to question the corrupt precepts of the status quo too vigorously.”
Liberals! Satiricists! Call Out the Big Dogs!
The Very Picture of Guilt
If the prospect of dealing with Frankenstorm is harshing your mellow this Halloween, you might want to look at The Paris Review Daily’s illustrated Telltale Heart.
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A Library Themed Wedding
Know anyone getting married soon? Perhaps they'd like to integrate some books and bookshelves. (via @ShelfAwareness)
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Bradbury’s Legacy
As Ray Bradbury's 90th birthday approaches, Slate explores why his stories have seeped into the culture.
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Kubrick’s motionless images
You can look at literally thousands of Stanley Kubrick's photographs online through MCNY. I'm partial to the sets featuring the child boxers, Rosemary Williams, and Betsy von Furstenberg, but there are gems a plenty.
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Moments of Being
In an essay for TriQuarterly Lia Purpura writes about Virginia Woolf's "moments of being" and their importance for contemporary writing. "Woolf’s particular flavor of modernism is rooted in the drive to gather, hold, and deepen moments, to make the shimmering moment of perception the base upon which “reality” rests. Her sensibility honors the fleeting, fragile instances of a person’s life."
Sounding Off
Shakespeare conspiracy theorists might still wonder who the real playwright was, but we do know what he would've sounded like. Linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal, demonstrate the original pronunciation of the Bard's best. Bonus: An interview with Ben on the research behind the pronunciation.
The Right to Complain
It’s a truth as old as academia: graduate students moan about the lengths of their dissertations. But which grad students are most entitled to complain? Herewith, a chart that compares dissertation lengths by major.
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Steve Almond is an idiot and seems to completely acknowledge it in that essay.
Will strikes me as a troll who reduces “complex cultural issues to ad hominem assaults.” (Almond, S., “Liberals Are Ruining America. I Know Because I am One.” NY Times Magazine, June 8, 2012. Web.)
Glenn, not a bad quip. I was being a bit humorous, haha. But, Almond actually does discuss how much of an idiot he was/is, etc.