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No time to write, so I have nothing but links today:
After my look at the Gourevitch Paris Review, the Chicago Sun Times does a fluff piece on the latest issue.
Maud and Mark edit the latest issue of BOLDTYPE. Among others, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by (Moorish Girl) Laila Lalami is reviewed. Maud discusses the inclusion of that book in the new BOLDTYPE blog.
And speaking of Mark, he gets a nice notice in the Times for his excellent interview with Man Booker shortlist author John Banville.
And speaking of Laila, she writes on Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith in the Oregonian.
And speaking of the Man Booker prize, Kazuo Ishiguro has pulled ahead of Julian Barnes in the People’s Prize with 330 votes to the latter’s 306. You can vote too.
Words Without Border’s October issue gets into literary archeology with its look at indigenous languages of the Americas. If you’re interested in Sud America, you may want to check out my friend Mitch’s site Soy Andina, on the making of his documentary film of the same name.
Ana Maria posts Carlos Fuentes’ speech from the Berlin Literary Festival at 400 Windmills.
David Yaffe was clearly having a bad day when he wrote this piece for Slate on the Dylan documentary “No Direction Home:”
We sit in Manhattan’s White Horse Tavern with Liam Clancy, an insufferably melodramatic Irish folkie perched in front of a pint of ale that does not seem like his first of the night. We sip tea with boho chicks extraordinaire Maria Muldaur and Suze Rotolo, delighting in their brushes with fame. We are in a gray room with Allen Ginsberg, who looks like he’s on his way to Desolation Row. (Ginsberg died in ‘97, by the way, demonstrating how long this project has been cooking.) Ginsberg gets choked up remembering his first listening of “Hard Rain,” not because he was moved, but because he felt, with more than a little narcissism, that “the torch had been passed.”
But notably reveals that was something of a p.r. induced farce:
…before you get too excited about this crossroads meeting, viewer, beware: This project was co-produced by Dylan’s manager Jeff Rosen. Scorsese was brought in well after Rosen had already conducted the interviews and approved the material. What will all these assholes be saying about Dylan? In this “Martin Scorsese Picture,” whatever the Dylan people want.
And that’s it for now. I didn’t make it to 40 links.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: October 03, 2005
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