Literature

SEE // MoMA Pays Tribute to a Mercurial and Controversial Filmmaker // Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sarah Bondoc |
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From the blasphemous La Ricotta to the acclaimed Gospel According to St. Matthew to scathing condemnations of the bourgeoisie.

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KNOW // Poet Laureate of the Memeplex // Steve Roggenbuck
Jakob Dorof |
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Itinerant internet poet Steve Roggenbuck breaks free from the shackles of Word documents.

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Three Ways to Enlighten Your August
Spencer Nelson |
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The end of summer is approaching and all your unfulfilled fantasies of a season of adventure and self-improvement may be crashing down, but we have a three-step antidote to indolence-induced guilt.

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Wildcard, Writer, Polemicist: Gore Vidal and His Legacy
Spencer Nelson |

The man was an enigmatic figure: aristocratic yet populist, broadminded yet abrasive and intolerant.

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In Praise of Plagiarism
Spencer Nelson |
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“Plagiarism should be celebrated,” declares Chris Habib, author of Plagiarist and organizer of Printed Matter’s group exhibition HELP/LESS.

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Your Philosopher's Keeper: How a Sour Sibling Screwed Nietzsche
Spencer Nelson |
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Nietzsche the Nazi? You can blame the philosopher’s sister for that slander.

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Christopher Hitchens Posthumously Supplies a Foreword for Orwell's Diaries
Spencer Nelson |
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Vanity Fair recently released a preview of Hitchen’s foreword to Orwell’s diaries, showing how both consensus-spurning authors crafted their critiques.

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Alternate Endings Revealed for Hemingway Masterpiece
Spencer Nelson |

A Farewell to Arms articulated the trauma of a generation. Turns out the work could have ended forty-seven different ways.

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A Retrospective for a Fictional Jonathan Safran Foer Character
Jarrett Moran |

This summer, painter Sam Messer, associate dean of the Yale School of Art, is curating a group show that masquerades as a retrospective of work by the fictional artist S, whose biography was written for the show by author Jonathan Safran Foer.

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A New Gallery Embraces the Dark
Manish Vora |
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Even though Venus over Manhattan is in the heart of art world bustle on Madison Avenue, the gallery sits in stark contrast to the white walls of its neighbors. The space looks more like a bomb shelter than a place for exhibiting art, which is exaggerated by the fact that its inaugural show, À Rebours (Against Nature), takes place in near-darkness.

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Freestyle Art Criticism - in Verse
Tiffany Jow |

DC poet Brash spouts art criticism faster than a speeding bullet.

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Can a Museum Be Magical Realist?
Jarrett Moran |

Twelve years ago Turkish writer Orham Pamuk set out to compose a novel in the form of a museum catalog. His first step, naturally, was to go looking for real estate in Istanbul for his museum.

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