Maybe get some serious reading done between classes ending and starting?
- The New Yorker 100th Anniversary Issue. Seth's tribute to first NYer art editor, Rhea Irvin.
- NYer of 4/28/25. Gopnik:"Slavery had a cursed past, and a present to be tolerated, but no future."
- The Confessions of St. Augustine.
- NYer of 4/21/25. Phish played 13 donut themed shows in a row. One was "Boston Cream," featuring medleys of songs by Boston and by Cream.
- NYer of 5/5/25. Mark Twain proposed a return of Tom and Huck when they were both 60, failures, miserable. They die.
- Ubik by PKD. I didn't get the end, where the other guy is on the coin. Was Dick just ready to move on?
- Small Town Talk by Barney Hoskins. Woodstock was an artists' colony taken up by hippies. One night, Santana (the only touring act), Jimi Hendrix, and a jam session with some of the Band was all going on the same night.
- NYer of 6/5/23. Burkhard Bilger article on old Stax songwriters reunited to listen to lost demos and identify the performers.
- NYER OF 5/16/22. Profile of Matthew Wong, deceased Canadian artist. Sort of an outsider, an outsider who learned and lived online.
- NYer of 4/11/22. Lauren Collins profile of Stephane Bourgoin, French expert on serial killers whose lies and exaggerations were exposed online.
- NYer of 5/29/23. James Wood on Mozart: "Don Giovanni closes with the seducer's six survivors--the castoffs, the cuckolded, the bereaved--sweetly singing their way back to normality, as they rejoice that the wicked always get their deserts, while 'we, good people, will now gaily sing to you the old, old refrain.'"
- NYer of 5/12&19/25. A. Lane on NYer memoirs and histories: "Every night and every morning, [William] Shawn and [Lillian] Ross spoke on the phone, and only once did Cecile [Shawn] answer when Ross called. Shawn had just died. 'He's gone,' Cecile said."
- NYer of 2/6/23. "Public opinion" and the idea of objective journalism invented by Walter Lippman in the 1920s.
- The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. In the "ende" it wasn't as good as The Princess Bride because the lesson was too serious and on the nose.
