Weekly Round-Up (17 Oct 2016)

This is the eighth in a weekly series that brings together the articles, reviews, interviews and miscellany that has caught my eye over the past seven days. Including: Bob Dylan becoming the first songwriter to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; Rebecca Solnit’s map of New York that celebrates women; and the treasure trove of archival materials celebrating T. S. Eliot’s life and work. Take a look, and feel free to share!

Literature, Poetry, Theatre

• Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize takes Literature back to its Roots
• Robert Christgau on Bob Dylan’s Dada novel, Tarantula
• The poetry of Bob Dylan – from the Guardian archive, April 1965
• Rebecca Solnit creates a map of New York that celebrates great women
• Call for Papers: Samuel Beckett’s Bodies of Water
• Scott Esposito’s Library of Missing Books
• Think Pig! Samuel Beckett at the Limit of the Human
• Why is Samuel Beckett on Twitter?
• Angela Carter reviews Bob Dylan
• The publishing gamble that changed America
• Samuel Beckett sitcom pitches
• Lisa Dwan discusses her production of Beckett’s No’s Knife
• A huge archive of materials relating to T.S. Eliot is now available online at tseliot.com
• Unseen documents revealed on new website dedicated to T. S. Eliot
• Eudora Welty, ‘Why I live at the P.O.’
• J. G. Ballard on analysands
• The Fantastic Ursula K. Le GuinThe Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin
• Hear Bill Murray’s Favorite Poems Read Aloud by Murray Himself & Their Authors
• Katherine Mansfield Had (Literal) Dreams of Meeting Oscar Wilde
• Scary clowns didn’t start with Stephen King
• Stephen King’s Top 10 All-Time Favorite Books
• 7 new books recommended by critics and editors at The New York Times
• Margaret Atwood’s Hag Seed is an insightful retelling of The Tempest
• W. B. Yeats on meeting Oscar Wilde
• See the original manuscript of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
• Travelling through Transylvania with Dracula as a guide
• On Leo Tolstoy and nature
• Hear Sylvia Plath’s Barely-Known Radio Play, “Three Women”
• Alice B. Toklas Reads Her Famous Recipe for Hashish Fudge (1963)
• Take a Visual Walking Tour of Franz Kafka’s Prague with Will Self
• Winnie-the-Pooh at 90: still the best bear in all the world
• Fyodor Dostoevsky Draws Elaborate Doodles In His Manuscripts
• “The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir,” on Thomas De Quincey
• Laurie Anderson’s Top 10 Books

Art, Design, Photography

• The Jazz Age: How Fashion broke its chains
• The Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum
• Klimt’s Women: Real and On Canvas
• Sonny Rollins describes how 50 years of yoga made him a better musician
• A new exhibition features the photographs that formed the feminist avant-garde
• Marvel’s latest hero is a Syrian mother trapped in a besieged town
• Take a look at Henri Matisse’s illustrations of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1935)
• An archival tour of London’s Underground takes us back to modernist England

Philosophy & Theory

• Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus” Gets Turned into Beautiful, Meditative Music
• A Master List of 1,200 Free Courses From Top Universities: 40,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures

Music

• US President Barack Obama on meeting Bob DylanUS President Barack Obama on meeting Bob Dylan
• Bob Dylan becomes first songwriter to win Nobel in literature
• A secret Bob Dylan trove, dating back to his earliest days, inc. lyrics, recordings, correspondence, films & photos
• ‘Dylan looks and acts like a fusion of Huck Finn and a young Woody Guthrie’ — Nat Hentoff
• The genius of Bob Dylan‘s storytelling
• Kermit the Frog Learns to Love Jazz Through “Visual Thinking” (1959)
• The Musical Mind of Albert Einstein: Great Physicist, Amateur Violinist and Devotee of Mozart
• A Huge Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music (1920-2007) Featuring John Cage, Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart & More
• The Night When Charlie Parker Played for Igor Stravinsky (1951)

Film & TV

• US President Barack Obama lists his 8 favourite sci-fi films and TV series

• A Hitchcockian Re-Creation of the First Modern Mass Shooting

• Anna Deavere Smith‘s new show looks at crime, education and the Baltimore she left behind

News & Politics

• 50 years ago, the Black Panther movement was founded
• At the 1968 Olympics, history was made. John Carlos tells the story behind that Black Power gesture