April 2010
15 posts
Natalie Merchant and "Leave Your Sleep'' at... →
This is a treat. Natalie talks about the poems that changed her life as a new mother and then sings the tunes she composed for a series of nursery rhymes and nonsense that make the most sense of anything you’ve ever heard.
A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal..... →
Paul Theroux on the Boy Scouts. Who knew?
Words to live by from a Pulitzer winner for music
New York Times, 4/22/10 interview with composer Jennifer Higdon
Ms. Higdon has had her share of detractors, who told her she couldn’t compose because she started so late; that a flute performance major couldn’t be a composer; that she would never make a living; and that she would never get into graduate school. Some male composers have grumbled to her face that she’s only been...
You're a doctor, a woman, you've just won a... →
Memories of Justice John Paul Stevens From His... →
Long, long ago, in another life I rarely mention, I wanted to be a legal historian; to this day, I am the only person I know who had read the four volumes of the John Marshall biography and who is a fan of the 19th Century Justice Joseph Story. But you should read these memories for their telling details -the judge who stayed up late, who sat in a creased black leather chair, who didn’t mind...
mnartists.org | mnLIT Original: "What the... →
here is more ample documentation of Jeff and poem…..
Today's cadeau: a poem by Jeff Johnson →
What the Neurologist Doesn’t Say
This is the end of minutiae and the beginning of a sort of cruise. You won’t quite recognize the climate. Some people find this troubling, but try to roll with it. If you taste brine, if you hear gulls, if the wind comes at you from an unlikely quarter, don’t panic. You’ve always been a landlocked soul— acreages, volts, miles per...
This week’s TIME Financial Toolkit podcast:...
I admit it: I believe in fairy tales, happy endings in movies and that Butler should have won. And I think in some way they still did.
RT @parisreview: Good fiction often takes the banal around us and defamiliarizes it. - Edmund White
Undercover Black Man: Thoughts on theme →
David Mills was a great writer, a newspaperman who turned to TV and contributed to shows such as Homicide, NYPD Blue, The Wire and the soon-to-debut Treme. He died at 48 on the set of Treme in New Orleans. He’s a friend of a friend, so I’ve been on the receiving end of some incredible memorials on FB and twitter and the blog post here is from David’s blog - good writing on good...