March 1, 2006
Welcome / Around the web #8
For those of you coming via today's spring arts preview in the Observer, I offer an immediate caveat to Choire Sicha's characterization of me as a blogger: The majority of my time is happily spent editing the content specific to Artforum magazine's website, www.artforum.com. I also write for it, as evidenced by a diary entry about my recent trip to Stockholm currently on the site's front page. When I post here, it is furtively, often late at night, and often little more than links to other articles, essays, and sites I have been reading. Here's another batch:
- James Wood continues beating the drum for realist fiction in this article for Prospect. It is the shortest and most accessibly written article he's yet penned on the topic. (Wood also has a long review of Robert Alter's The Five Books of Moses in the current LRB. Link here.)
- As widely noted, Malcolm Gladwell has started a blog.
- Here is an interview, conducted last summer, with the writer Richard Stern, whose collected short stories I am slowly working through (and enjoying).
- Here is a (somewhat low-quality) video trailer for a documentary about Matthew Barney that is to be released (I believe) later this year.
- A new-to-me Scandanavian design magazine titled Forum features excerpts of many of its articles, including stunning pictures. One of my favorite profiles is of the Danish Minister of Culture's recently revamped offices.
- I seem to choose a freely available article or two from every issue of the NYRB for recommendation; from the March 9 issue, I recommend Alan Hollinghurst's review-essay about Lytton Strachey's letters.