Weekly Round-Up (12 Sept 2016)

This is the third in a new weekly series that brings together the articles, reviews, interviews and miscellany that has caught my eye over the past seven days. Including: articles commemorating the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks in 2001, news about the mythical long-lost soundtrack of David Bowie’s The Man Who Fell to Earth, and President Barack Obama’s summer reading picks. Take a look, and feel free to share!

Literature, Poetry, Theatre

• Time, space, distortion: falling towards a 9/11 literature
• Why the 9/11 novel is such a contested genre
• Re-reading Stephen King’s It on its 30th anniversary
• Margaret Atwood experiments with the superhero genre
• Margaret Atwood interview: ‘I Finally Got To Do My Cat With Wings’
• Radio dramatization of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy
• Jonathan Safran Foer’s new novel wrestles with Jewish identity
• Lisa Dwan performs an extract from Samuel Beckett‘s No’s Knife
• Gabriel García Márquez to grace the new Colombian 50,000-peso bill
• Jane Eyre manuscript tours America
• John le Carré on his love of writing on the move
• Unseen short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Did algae inspire Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?
• Virginia Woolf‘s homes destroyed by London blitz
• Virginia Woolf‘s ‘gentle advice’ on how one should read a book
• Nicholas Lezard on the power of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
• J. D. Salinger’s house: artist’s retreat
• Samuel Beckett’s regret over career choice
• CFP: Virginia Woolf and the world of books
• CFP: Literary Connections and Cultural Collaborations
• CFP: Modernisms and Modernities East, West and South: Comparing Literary and Cultural Experiences
• Napoleon: failed novelist
• James Baldwin‘s ‘Fifth Avenue, Uptown’, 1960s civil rights essay on Harlem
• Writers tell what it’s like to live James Baldwin’s words
• Revisiting Jean Rhys‘ Voyage in the Dark
• Adrienne Rich‘s feminist awakening
• Stephane Mallarmé on the unique sound of the cricket
• Shakespeare not as original as we thought
• Zadie Smith will be talking about her new book, Swing Time, at the Manchester Literary Festival
• President Barack Obama on Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad
• 14 things you probably didn’t know about Colson Whitehead
• Leopoldine Core on Nella Larsen’s radicalism
• 18hr playlist of readings by the Beats
• Raymond Chandler and totalization
• Tracy K. Smith on Race, Love, Hate, and Lucille Clifton
• The 10 Greatest Books Ever (according to 125 top authors)
• Don DeLillo and Move-In Day

Art, Design, Photography

• Artists respond to 9/11
• Commemorating 9/11 through art
• An open call from Yoko Ono to women worldwide
• Monet’s last, desperate effort to create the world’s most beautiful paintings
• Try the MET Library’s newly designed online catalogue
• Alan Moore: By the Book
• How an English professor became an art history sleuth
• Odd couples: Artists you never knew were friends
• Eric Drooker’s startling New Yorker covers
• National Gallery paintings that inspired Samuel Beckett
• Robert Crumb’s short history of America

Philosophy & Theory

• 15 best classic books of all time
• A day in the life of Arthur Schopenhauer
• 2 short films on the work of Walter Benjamin
• Nigel Warburton recommends the best books on Introductions to Philosophy
• The women behind Marx and Engels

Music

• Q&A: Brian Eno, Oblique Music
• 50th Anniversary: Ornette Coleman’s The Empty Foxhole
• Steve Reich on writing music after 9/11
• Oliver Sacks on 9/11 and the power of music
• Open Letters Monthly reviews opera based on Oliver Sacks book
• Psychedelic video for Kraftwerk’s Autobahn
• CFP: New academic collection of essays on The Velvet Underground
• 26ft Bob Dylan sculpture to welcome visitors to National Harbor casino
• Denzel Washington to narrate John Coltrane documentary
• 2 documentaries introduce Delia Derbyshire, pioneer of electronic music
• Patti Smith on loving books
• Understanding the brilliant of jazz critic, Ralph Gleason

Film & TV

• David Bowie and The Man Who Fell to Earth soundtrack
• Bowie at Birkbeck: Free one-day symposium
• What we learned about David Lynch after 3 years in his art cave
• A brief history of TV shows being compared to Twin Peaks
• Stanley Kubrick‘s Top 10 Films
• Q&A: Christopher Guest
• Chris Marker‘s studio
• The Lisa Simpson Book Club

News & Politics

• A photographic history of NYC’s Twin Towers
• Michiko Kakutani on how ordinary things changed after 9/11
• Novelists assess President Barack Obama’s legacy
• German-born V&A director Martin Roth resigns following Brexit

Miscellaneous

• Lara Pawson discusses her memoir, This Is the Place to Be
• Oxford Dictionaries abandoned “least favourite word” survey before it began
• How many hours a week should academics work?
• What stands between academics and writing?
• First map of the London tube goes on display