Can't believe it! There's a new iPad app of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land which includes his own reading of his famous poem.
The app also includes a video of Fiona Shaw, the actress, performing the poem, as well as other sundry related things.
Faber & Faber's Touch Press is the producer.
I knew a moment was coming when I would really want an iPad.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Bloomsday
It's only five days til Bloomsday -- June 16 -- when all of the action of Joyce's Ulysses took place in 1904. People all over the world, not just in Dublin, re-enact part of the story, dress up as the characters, quote and disclaim, and visit, if they can, some of the famous sites of the famous story. In NYC, Symphony Space runs a marathon 13-hour reading which also has a five-hour broadcast on WNYC. This year Dublin actress Eilin O'Dea joins the readers (but not as Molly). Others equally famous will read.
Isaiah Sheffer calls the protagonist Leopold Bloom "the most famous Jewish character in literature." Never thought of Bloom that way, but maybe. He's certainly in the running.
Isaiah Sheffer calls the protagonist Leopold Bloom "the most famous Jewish character in literature." Never thought of Bloom that way, but maybe. He's certainly in the running.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Pioneer Woman
Whatever else may be said about Ree Drummonds's blog Pioneer Woman, and much has been said, including a NewYorker profile on May 9 (p.26-31), it is a great blog technically with lots of disparate parts and pictures to follow.
I wonder if book-reading groups ever assign themselves a blog such as hers to follow, and then meet and comment on it, and possibly dissect it. Such as assignment would be fun and welcome to the readers who can never finish a tome such as Ulysses (grand though it is), and certainly never go back to it after the meeting. In some cases, the critical thinking and analysis that goes into reading books can and should be brought to bear on reading a series of blog posts. Viz, well written? true? complete? unique voice? shows development over time? characterizations? etc.
Somebody tell Oprah.
http://thepioneerwoman.com/
I wonder if book-reading groups ever assign themselves a blog such as hers to follow, and then meet and comment on it, and possibly dissect it. Such as assignment would be fun and welcome to the readers who can never finish a tome such as Ulysses (grand though it is), and certainly never go back to it after the meeting. In some cases, the critical thinking and analysis that goes into reading books can and should be brought to bear on reading a series of blog posts. Viz, well written? true? complete? unique voice? shows development over time? characterizations? etc.
Somebody tell Oprah.
http://thepioneerwoman.com/
Sunday, June 5, 2011
plus ca change...,?
Phil Caputo,
marine Vietnam vet, reporter, and author of A Rumor of War (1977), among other good books, spoke at The Moth about the why? of getting shot in Beirut. He found Lebanon to be the worst among recent wars, and also observed that "Telex was the Twitter of its time."
marine Vietnam vet, reporter, and author of A Rumor of War (1977), among other good books, spoke at The Moth about the why? of getting shot in Beirut. He found Lebanon to be the worst among recent wars, and also observed that "Telex was the Twitter of its time."
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)