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    Sep 8, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Richard Poirier dies at 83; literary critic helped found Library of America

    Richard Poirier, a literary critic and writer who was one of the founders of the Library of America, a monumental effort to keep American literary classics in print and accessible to the reading public, died Aug. 15 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He was 83.
    Richard Poirier, a literary critic and writer who was one of the founders of the Library of America, a monumental effort to keep American literary classics in print and accessible to the reading public, died Aug. 15 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He...

    Tags: Rutgers University, Colleges and Universities, James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, Harvard University

    2. Jul 26, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Honoring composer Elliott Carter

    LENOX, Mass. -- In 1986, Elliott Carter wrote "A Celebration of Some 100 x 150 Notes," a salute to Texas on its 150th anniversary. That may appear a lot of notes to fit into a three-minute piece, but this brash bevy of 11 fanfares all fighting for attention at once was but one very small part of "Carter's Century," a very large celebration of the composer's upcoming 100th birthday as part of the Tanglewood Music Festival here. If those 15,000 notes had been grains of sand, then this five-day jubilee (which ended Thursday) at the Boston Symphony's summer home in the lush green Berkshires could have been called Carter Beach.
    Times Music Critic
    LENOX, Mass. -- In 1986, Elliott Carter wrote "A Celebration of Some 100 x 150 Notes," a salute to Texas on its 150th anniversary. That may appear a lot of notes to fit into a three-minute piece, but this brash bevy of 11 fanfares all fighting for...

    Tags: Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Leonard Bernstein, James Levine, Contemporary Music (genre)

    3. May 17, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. 'Curiosities of Literature: A Feast for Book Lovers'; 'Close Calls With Nonsense: Reading New Poetry'; 'The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else'

    Curiosities of Literature
    Curiosities of Literature A Feast for Book Lovers John Sutherland Herman Graf/Skyhorse Publishing: 288 pp., $22.95 This totally silly literary miscellany is "loosely inspired" by Isaac D'Israeli's 1791 bestseller "The Curiosities of Literature." It is...

    Tags: Poetry, Charles Dickens, Colleges and Universities, Death, John Updike

    4. Jul 10, 2001 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Fifth Annual Festival of Books To be Held April 29-30

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    Tags: Ray Bradbury, Poetry, University of California, Los Angeles, Ticketmaster, Pulitzer Prize Awards

    5. Mar 23, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. Review: 'My Life and My Life in the Nineties' by Lyn Hejinian

    There's that John Cage quote people trot out when you call a piece of art boring &mdash; &ldquo;In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually one discovers that it's not boring at all but very interesting.&rdquo; The thing no one ever points out about this is that it's not true. I had a temp job, moons and moons ago, in data entry at a giant law firm. Cage's aphorism should hang on the particleboard of corporate drudge mines everywhere, right next to <em>Arbeit macht frei</em>.
    There's that John Cage quote people trot out when you call a piece of art boring — “In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually one...

    Tags: Poetry, Arts and Culture, Language, Chicago Tribune, John Cage

    6. Mar 1, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Review: 'In Partial Disgrace' by Charles Newman

    TriQuarterly still serves as his calling card. Seven years after his death and nearly four decades after he stepped down as editor, Charles Newman will always be best remembered as the dashing pipe-smoker who took Northwestern University's sleepy literary magazine and turned it into a supernova for the smart set.
    TriQuarterly still serves as his calling card. Seven years after his death and nearly four decades after he stepped down as editor, Charles Newman will always be best remembered as the dashing pipe-smoker who took Northwestern University's sleepy literary...

    Tags: Teaching and Learning, Philosophy, Hungary, Medical Specialization, Chicago Tribune

    7. Feb 16, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Rae Armantrout's probing new collection

    The only time I met the poet Rae Armantrout, a few years ago, I escorted her from her hotel to the lecture hall at the University of Chicago where she was to read. We chatted, and she mentioned that she had a new book coming out. I asked her what it was called. &ldquo;&lsquo;Money Shot,'&rdquo; said this smallish, birdlike woman in her early 60s. The incongruity of hearing such a phrase issue from such a mouth (Google it if you don't know what it means; this is a family paper) strikes me now as an apt metaphor for Armantrout's career and work.&nbsp;
    The only time I met the poet Rae Armantrout, a few years ago, I escorted her from her hotel to the lecture hall at the University of Chicago where she was to read. We chatted, and she mentioned that she had a new book coming out. I asked her what it was...

    Tags: Awards and Prizes, Poetry, Wesleyan University, University of Chicago, Billy Collins

    8. Feb 1, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Self-help for the literary set

    The great theorist of psychoanalysis Jacques Lacan envisioned desire as &ldquo;caught in the rails of metonymy, eternally extending toward the desire for something else.&rdquo; In the rhetorical figure of metonymy, a signifier points toward something else, some other signifier it's related to; just so, desire is constantly pointing toward the next object. It's not just that desire can't be satisfied &mdash; that when you obtain the object of desire, desire simply fastens on to a new object &mdash; but that satisfaction isn't even the goal of desire in the first place. No wonder we're so miserable.
    The great theorist of psychoanalysis Jacques Lacan envisioned desire as “caught in the rails of metonymy, eternally extending toward the desire for something else.” In the rhetorical figure of metonymy, a signifier points toward something...

    Tags: Otto Preminger, George W. Bush, Health Treatments, Chicago Tribune, The Holocaust (1934-1945)

    9. Dec 7, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. 'Quick Question' is classic John Ashbery

    It is happening again. Into the mawkish nature documentaries and faddish elliptical doldrums of American poetry, John Ashbery is sticking his clown nose.
    It is happening again. Into the mawkish nature documentaries and faddish elliptical doldrums of American poetry, John Ashbery is sticking his clown nose. For nearly a half-century Ashbery has been popping up every two or three years to remind poetry...

    Tags: Poetry, Condos and Houses, Rentals, Chicago Tribune

    10. Nov 24, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. James Wood champions realism in new book of essays

    There's a certain type of reader &mdash; often also a writer, with a leaf-fring'd MFA &mdash; who has it all figured out. The realist novel is a scam, a factory producing cardboard imitations of bourgeois life. This is the person at the party who mentions having read &ldquo;Gravity's Rainbow&rdquo; twice and says things like, &ldquo;Oh, that's too narrative for me.&rdquo; The critic James Wood was born to drive this person crazy.
    There's a certain type of reader — often also a writer, with a leaf-fring'd MFA — who has it all figured out. The realist novel is a scam, a factory producing cardboard imitations of bourgeois life. This is the person at the party who mentions...

    Tags: Religion and Belief, Paul Auster, Authors, Saul Bellow, John Updike

    11. Nov 2, 2011 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  11. Still and Moving Lines: Wesleyan celebrates the life and career of composer Alvin Lucier

    <span style="font-size: medium;">This weekend, Wesleyan University will host an array of events paying tribute to composer Alvin Lucier, who retired from the faculty in July after 40 years of teaching.</span>
    This weekend, Wesleyan University will host an array of events paying tribute to composer Alvin Lucier, who retired from the faculty in July after 40 years of teaching. Even if you aren’t familiar with Lucier’s work, you’d be challenged...

    Tags: Arts, Fine Arts, Rome (Italy), Artists, Music

    12. Nov 17, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Nikky Finney wins National Book Award for poetry

    A Chicago publisher was recognized during the National Book Awards ceremony as Nikky Finney won the award for poetry for her collection "Head Off & Split," which was published by Northwestern University's Triquarterly imprint. Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones," about a family hit by Hurricane Katrina, received the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday at a black-tie gala in New York. Ward's novel, her second, was a surprise winner.
    Los Angeles Times
    A Chicago publisher was recognized during the National Book Awards ceremony as Nikky Finney won the award for poetry for her collection "Head Off & Split," which was published by Northwestern University's Triquarterly imprint. Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the...

    Tags: Orange County Register, Poetry, C-SPAN (tv network), Miami Book Fair International, Book

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