Sunday, August 29, 2010

Italian Hours: Updated

Henry James made fourteen visits to Italy, his first in 1869, his last in 1907. His travel essays were first printed in magazines, and some were collected for Transatlantic Sketches (1875) or Portraits of Places (1883). In 1909 William Heinemann published all the Italy essays as Italian Hours, complete...
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Sunday, August 22, 2010

The New Yorker Snapshots My Vacation

Home to a rainy New York after two weeks in Italy. First day back filled with sorting laundry and mail, starting the transition back to daily life. Sitting amid the pile of junk mail catalogues is The New Yorker double week issue, August 16 & 23. And the cover is ”Tuscany” by Lorenzo Mattotti,...
              

Sunday, August 8, 2010

The Choir: My First Reality Show: Now Coming to USA?!

“I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.” Paul McCartney Have I mentioned that I have never seen a single reality...
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Monday, August 2, 2010

Professor Grampy Meets the Mad Men

This Mad Men episode tells us "Christmas Comes But Once a Year." So, Christmas in August. SCDP is breaking all the rules, even the one that usually puts Christmas in July. What iconoclasts. The title of this holiday bonbon is such a specific cultural reference: it’s Max Fleischer’s 1936 animated short...
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