Weekly Round-Up (24 Oct 2016)

This is the ninth in a weekly series that brings together the articles, reviews, interviews and miscellany that has caught my eye over the past seven days. Including: John Coltrane’s handwritten outline for A Love Supreme; Peter Mendelsund’s beautiful designs of W. G. Sebald’s books; and a celebration of the ‘US queen of gothic horror’, Shirley Jackson. Take a look, and feel free to share!

Literature, Poetry, Theatre

• Imaginary Cities: An Interview with Darran Anderson
• Samuel Beckett: Art of Failure after the Holocaust
• Call for Papers: Samuel Beckett’s Bodies of Water
• Shirley Jackson: the US queen of gothic horror claims her literary crown
• Margaret Atwood is bringing Shakespeare into the 21st century
• The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon – review
• Marcel Proust Fills Out a Questionnaire
• Arwa Haider looks back at the revolutionary love letter penned by Oscar Wilde in prison
• “I want whatever I doodle to be well doodled.” —Gordon Lish
• Beautiful W. G. Sebald book covers by the uniquely talented Peter Mendelsund
• Don’t know where to start with Ursula K. Le Guin?
• A 2008 interview with writer Ursula K. Le Guin
• Ursula K. Le Guin on science vs. religion
• Ursula K. Le Guin: ‘I wish we could all live in a big house with unlocked doors’
• Video of Virginia Woolf’s Husband, Leonard
• Author, publisher, & feminist: Reconsidering Virginia Woolf’s book Jacob’s Room
• Author Jack Kerouac’s truest language was the French of his boyhood
• Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Jessie Fauset (Tuskegee University, 1927)
• Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy: Hear the 1973 Radio Dramatization
• Don DeLillo’s White Noise to be adapted for film
• Leonard Nimoy reads H.G. Wells’ seminal sci-fi novel, The War of the Worlds
• Orson Welles meets H.G. Wells in 1940; they discuss War of the Worlds, Citizen Kane, and WWII
• Exploring Henry Green‘s peculiar writing style that highlighted human unknowability
• Jeffrey Eugenides, ‘The Pieces of Zadie Smith’
• Travel writer Ciara O’Callaghan follows F. Scott Fitzgerald & Ernest Hemingway from Paris to Alabama
• Here is the fiction shortlist for the 2016 Chicago Review of Books Awards
• Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time
• Escape into the fascinating futuristic fiction of Emmanuela Carbé, where the mechanics of mourning rule
• Stephen Lawrence poem by Benjamin Zephaniah donated to British Library
• 18-Year-Old James Joyce writes a fan letter to his hero Henrik Ibsen (1901)

Art, Design, Photography

• Listen to Edith Devaney’s ‘Introduction to Abstract Expressionism‘
• NYC’s Guggenheim Museum celebrates its 57th anniversary with a clip from opening day on October 21, 1959.
• The New Yorker Cartoon Randomizer
• The visionary sculptures of Ruth Asawa (1926 – 2013)
• MoMa’s 1980 Picasso exhibition was the first time they dedicated our building to a single artist
• How an extraordinary visual memory guided Pablo Picasso‘s creative process
• Anthropomorphic landscapes, 16th-19th century. Featuring Kircher, Hollar, and Arcimboldo
• Peter Hujar: the photographer who defined downtown New York

Philosophy & Theory

• Hannah Arendt Discusses Philosophy, Politics & Eichmann in Rare 1964 TV Interview
• Model of Ludwig Wittgenstein‘s ‘hut’ in Skjolden, Norway.

Music

• TalkingNewMedia reviews them updated apps from JazzTimes and Downbeat
• Requiem for Charlie Haden
• John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for A Love Supreme
• The 4’33” App lets you create your own version of John Cage’s classic work
• Why won’t New Orleans take steps to preserve the dilapidated home of Buddy Bolden, the first jazz musician?
• Phil Chess, co-founder of legendary Chess Records, dead at age 95
• Hear the One Night Sun Ra & John Cage Played Together in Concert (1986)
• Exploring Bob Dylan‘s New York
• Watch a 27-year-old Glenn Gould play Bach (1959)

Film & TV

• Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online: Stalker, Solaris & More
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Veep and why Elaine never had her own Seinfeld spinoff
• Adaptation of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral: inevitably not so good, but not so bad
• The Essential Elements of Film Noir Explained in One Grand Infographic
• How Stanley Kubrick Became Stanley Kubrick: A Short Documentary Narrated by the Filmmaker
• Guillermo del Toro on transforming his influences through his own free-flowing, organic creative process
• Why, Oh, Why Did Fox Remake ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’?
• MoMa Film to host world premiere of our digital restoration of Night of the Living Dead

News & Politics

• Celebrating Black History Month
• To the First Lady, With Love
• PEN America’s And Campus for All: Diversity, Inclusion, and Free Speech at US Universities

Miscellaneous

• PhD Studentships available! University of Brighton, deadline January 16th
• Call for Papers: Digital Humanities 2017