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☆ Paul Auster’s New York Tragedy
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Lucy Sante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I first became aware of Paul Auster, who died on April 30, from reading old issues of The Columbia Review when I was a student at the university. He translated French Surrealist poetry and wrote prose fiction, set in a sort of silent-movie cityscape that anticipated his novels and films. We inhabited the same Morningside Heights world of the early 1970s, with its cranks and cults, mimeographed screeds and tracts. Surely Paul, too, patronized Marlin Café and the Moon Palace. Paul was living blocks away, and when I met him he made me feel as if the whole neighborhood welcomed me.

Persons: Paul Auster, Lydia Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Roth, mimeographed, Paul, Marlin Café Organizations: Columbia Locations: New Jersey, Newark, Columbia, Morningside, Manhattan

☆ Saul Leiter: The photographer who changed the way the world saw New York
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Christian House | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Saul Leiter had a thing for umbrellas. They pepper his mid-century photographs of New York, popping up over years of work: pink umbrellas, red umbrellas, yellow umbrellas. In “Saul Leiter: An Unfinished Word,” a joyous new retrospective on view at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, England, these umbrellas sing out from the walls. Saul Leiter FoundationLeiter’s abstracted shots of New York seem radical, yet they are true to how we all see the streets: fragmented by traffic, building facades, doorways, angles and crowds. Saul Leiter Foundation“He never really settled into society,” says Morin.

Persons: CNN — Saul Leiter, “ Saul Leiter, Leiter, —, Saul Leiter, ”, Saul Leiter Leiter, Saul, Eugene Smith, Bonnard, “, Anne Morin, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Soames Bantry, Anders Goldfarb, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Morin Organizations: CNN, Saul Leiter Foundation, British Vogue, Bazaar, New York School of Photographers Locations: New York, Milton Keynes, England, Pittsburgh, British

☆ Ai Weiwei’s ‘Zodiac’ Is a Mystical Memory Tour
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Jonathan Landreth | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As the Year of the Dragon dawns, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has released “Zodiac,” a “graphic memoir” of scenes from his career — both real (hanging with Allen Ginsberg, the O.G. Each chapter frames the artist’s take on traditional beliefs about the characteristics humans share with the 12 animals of the Chinese lunar calendar. Gianluca Costantini’s intricate line drawings pair with Elettra Stamboulis’s comic-bubble text to help expand Ai’s lifelong campaign for free expression to a new medium for a new generation. Ai spoke with Jonathan Landreth about parents and parenting, punk rock and the passage of time, all via video chat last week from Berlin. A zodiac cycle ago, in 2012, you were just out of jail and tired of Beijing trying to silence you.

Persons: Ai Weiwei, Allen Ginsberg, Xi, Gianluca, Elettra, Ai, Jonathan Landreth Organizations: Twitter Locations: Greenwich, Berlin, Beijing, ”, Berlin , Cambridge, Portugal, China, New York

☆ Opinion: 17 syllables a day that are changing your lives
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Opinion Tess Taylor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —For me, writing a haiku a day began as a practice on my birthday, October, 2022. As my birthday rolled around that fall, the idea of writing a haiku a day was simply a way of promising myself that that day, I’d steady myself make note of — ha — just one thing. No matter the day, I was sure I could find a way to write down one sentence, one spattering of roughly 17 syllables. Tink Boord-Dill wrote in that liked that he loved writing haiku because it was daily creativity without performance pressure. Robin from Maryland wrote “the daily writing of seventeen syllables quickly created a rhythm to my thinking and even my walking….

Persons: Tess Taylor, —, Tess Taylor Adrianne Mathiowetz, Robert Hass, I’d, Basho, we’d, Tink, Dill, Elaine Questell, ” Carla White, ” Paul Nelson, Allen Ginsberg, Linda Neves, …, Candace Waldron, “, birdsong, — Linda Neves, Brad Taylor, Nancy B, — Philip Chan, Carolyn W, — Susan B, Karen Jacobs, Weren’t, — Stephen Schwei, Derek Thaczuk, I’m Organizations: “, CNN Locations: California, Maryland, Virginia, New York, Quebec, Bill, Alaska, Arizona, Guynn , Texas, Ohio, Derek Thaczuk , Ontario

☆ When Ruthless Cultural Elitism Is Exactly the Job
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

Talk When Ruthless Cultural Elitism Is Exactly the JobI wonder if any of the many literary greats represented by Andrew Wylie ever considered using his story. I don’t think that’s ever happened. I think that’s the wrong way to look at it. Do you think that’s a phony attitude? Is there some defense of cultural elitism that you want to make?

Persons: Andrew Wylie, Wylie, scalawag, Andy Warhol’s, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Martin Amis, John Updike, Borges, Calvino, Sally Rooney, Salman Rushdie, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Wylie’s, ’ backlists, ”, understatedly, It’s, I’ve, Jesus, Andrew, Gerard Malanga, I’m, doesn’t, it’s, I’ll, “, You’ve, Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, “ Don Quixote ”, that’s, what’s, you’re, Orhan Pamuk, Italo Calvino, Naipaul, Nabokov, accrues, We’re, David Marchese, Alok Vaid, Menon, ordinariness, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Downey Jr Organizations: Houghton, Paul’s, Harvard, New York Times, Harvard Business School, Getty, Disney, Marvel Locations: Houghton Mifflin, St, New York

☆ Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Stern, New Jersey’s first poet laureate, died Thursday at Calvary Hospice in New York City, according to his longtime partner, Anne Marie Macari. He regarded “The One Thing in Life,” from the 1977 collection “Lucky Life,” as the poem that best defined him. Stern studied political science at the University of Pittsburgh and received a master’s in comparative literature from Columbia University. They had two children, Rachael Stern Martin and David Stern. Or get laid.”Besides Macari and his children, Stern is survived by grandchildren Dylan and Alana Stern and Rebecca and Julia Martin.

☆ Mountain Girl’s heartbreaking memoir: An icon of the Sixties opens up about Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, and what the age of free love was really like
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-09 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

Now 76 and living in Oregon, Mountain Girl has gave us an exclusive look at her memoir. Altamont, the free concert that Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia helped organized, was meant to revive the spirit of the Sixties. Today, 60 years since she took that ride with Neal Cassady, Mountain Girl is still forging her own path. Before I leave Kesey's farm, Mountain Girl and I walk outside to the old brown barn where Furthur now rests. But for Mountain Girl, it lives forever, an emblem of everything her generation believed in, and all that they achieved.

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