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Entry 26 — The Doubled World of JoAnne Growney « POETICKS
Looks like an interesting book of poetry... and it's relatively mainstreamish and Bob Grumman likes it...
The Poet as Sound Man
"He [Kleinzahler] visits the Liberace Museum and writes about Liberace’s “intriguingly repulsive” playing. He writes about airplane music, the Muscle Shoals rhythm section, the making of mix tapes, Tina Turner’s bad old days, the joy of bar jukeboxes, Debussy, John Coltrane, and how he once leaped onstage during a John Lee Hooker set in Juneau, Alaska, only to be thrown right back off onto the floor. It’s a weird, heady stew."
CPR - Great Expectations: D.A. Powell by Joan Houlihan
Even Powell’s failures are better than most poets’ successes, his flawed poems better than the many hundreds of unflawed poems that live like mayflies for a day then suffer a small death on the page from dullness.
Snark Attack: The New Yorker's David Denby campaigns against "low, teasing, snide, condescending" criticism - Reason Magazine
Anyone who has been exposed to the subliterate animosities and grudges of the cruder anonymous commenters or bloggers, or has bristled at the lowered bar of what passes as clever satire on snark-heavy websites, will have some sympathy for Denby's effort to attack against the “everyone-sucks-but-me” culture. But his bizarre choice of targets and imprecise definition of “snarky” derails his argument from the beginning.
Mister Lucky
"Gladwell is rather a slippery writer; he does not make philosophical commitments. Some people who read Outliers may argue that he gives too little credit to individual resilience. Others may contend that he manages to find a near-perfect balance in weighing the internal and the external. What almost no one would dispute is the boring truism that both factors play tremendous roles in shaping the life of every individual. Maybe the Bush years have left common sense looking like dissidence, but common sense is the most that the outlier Malcolm Gladwell has, in the best of circumstances, to offer. Even when his thinking is right, it is weak."
How the backlash against Juno started
loving Juno, being anti-Juno and the anti-anti-Juno-ites. Dana Stevens isolates the exact same moment I did that made me start to love this little film...
Revisiting In the Heat of the Night.
A spot-on article on a fantastic movie that too many people have never seen (and whose reputation has been further tainted by the sad television series)
Review of "The Big Switch," by Nicholas Carr
Scott Rosenberg's excellent review of the new book by Carr-- anyone want to split the book with me? I get the first half...
Fadiman broadens subjects
A short review of Anne Fadiman's new book of essays (I really enjoyed _Ex Libris_).
hackwriters.com - CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS - BOOKS, FILM, ART, MUSIC,
A bit of savagery for its own sake here and there, a bit more failed cleverness, and a fair amount of precious pride, but better some ballsy reviews than the all-too-common pablum
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