“I quickly stopped trying to draw in a realistic way and went for an efficient one.” Max de Radiguès is a Belgian cartoonist whose work you should familiarize yourself with.
Disarmingly Like Love
Picturing Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was one of the first people to use photography to control meaning. Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American catalogues his many portraits and how they contributed to our perception of Douglass. Our own Edan Lepucki writes about the place of slave narratives in fiction.
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A Bolaño Gallery Show
"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.)
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McSweeney’s Column Contest
You have until 8/20 to enter the 4th Annual Column Contest at McSweeney's.
Saying Without Saying
Giles Harvey discusses the ways in which Anton Chekhov's characters -- as dramatized in his stories and a new stage production -- "long to express their innermost desires … but instead they find themselves saying things like, 'Why did I go out to lunch?' "
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My Brah Horatio
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Oh Henry
Over thirteen years, John Berryman wrote his famous Dream Songs, composing his most innovative and well-known poetry while his own life began to unravel. In a piece for the LRB, August Kleinzahler reappraises the poet to mark a raft of new editions of his work, citing Randall Jarrell, Saul Bellow and other contemporaries in the process. Pair with Stephen Akey on The Dream Songs.
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The World’s Most Expensive Book
The world’s most expensive book (having previously fetched $8.8 million) is auctioned yet again.
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Flying Mice
Seemingly from the realm of science fiction comes a recent announcement from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Scientists there have succeeded in levitating mice.
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