June 19, 2006
Around the web #13
I foolishly keep links and notes for potential posts in my computer's e-mail program as a drafted message, and late last week I lost nearly a month's worth of material. Here are a few links I've cobbled together since:
- Momus laments the folding of Relax, a magazine that I purchased and enjoyed for years despite not being able to read a word in it.
- At Beatrice, Jeff Chang and Simon Reynolds—responsible for Can't Stop Won't Stop and Rip It Up and Start Again, two of the best music books of 2005—discuss their books and much more. Here's part one; here's part two.
- At n+1, Paul Maliszewski offers an appreciation of the writer Gilbert Sorrentino, who died May 18.
- Todd at From the Floor asks whether or not we really need video guides for art exhibitions, and I can't help but laugh at the fact that the exhibition in question is titled "Remote Viewing."
- In response to Christian Keathley's Cinephilia and History, Girish Shambu offers three "cinephiliac moments" off the top of his head.
- This weekend, while catching up with magazines I was too busy to get to when they landed in my mailbox, I came across this engaging Adam Gopnik essay on William Dean Howells.