“Rockslide Sky,” an exhibition of art inspired by Roberto Bolaño‘s story “Gomez Palacio,” has just completed its run at Fordham University’s Center Gallery/Lipani Gallery…but a slideshow lives on in cyberspace. (I like feel this one would have made a nice cover for Last Evenings on Earth, but Bolañophiles may want to click through all 18.)
A Bolaño Gallery Show
The Top Journalism of the Decade
A group at NYU's journalism school has named "The Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade in the United States." Four of these are books: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family, Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower, Jane Mayer's The Dark Side, and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed.
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Some Dry Reading Material
Wednesdays, right? Well, make your Hump Day a little more productive by perusing the digitized Dead Sea Scrolls. (via)
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Roger Angell on the Triple Play
Even those who detest the sport can feel the joys of reading Roger Angell’s baseball writing. Case in point: his latest dispatch, in which he remarks on a recent triple play by saying, “What’s great about [triple plays] isn’t really their scarcity but the fact that they beautifully illustrate the invisible force that hovers about each pitch and play and inning and game in this pausing, staccato, and inexorably accruing pastime: the laws of chance.”
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Marksonalia
Millions contributor Tyler Malone has created a Tumblr account dedicated to the marginalia of David Markson, whose novel Wittgenstein's Mistress was famously passed up by 54 publishers before becoming a critical darling.
Get ‘Em While It’s Hot
Columbia University Press is having a Spring Sale all month. 50% off!
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Imagine Capitalism
We get it, you're into finance -- but what can you tell me about lit crit? This piece from The Atlantic purports to show how literary theory has its place in the world of finance: "The act of imagining the future in finance goes by other names—'vision' and 'invention' are among the more respectable euphemisms—in order to disguise the presence of the non-rational in financial activity. But rarely do scholars explore the role of imagination in economic life systematically. In a realm dominated by economic and financial scholarship that aspires to be 'scientific,' fantasy and creativity in envisioning the future are often ignored; they don't fit well into a model of research whose aim is to reduce unknowns and to eliminate surprises as much as possible."
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