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    Mar 23, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. 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: Chicago Tribune, Language, Poetry, John Cage, Arts and Culture

    2. Mar 1, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. 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: FedEx Corporation, Philosophy, Sigmund Freud, Chicago Sun-Times, Psychology

    3. Feb 16, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. 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: Chicago Tribune, Awards and Prizes, Wesleyan University, Poetry, Billy Collins

    4. Feb 1, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. 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, Authors, Movies, George W. Bush, No Country for Old Men (movie)

    5. Dec 7, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. '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: Chicago Tribune, Poetry, Rentals, Condos and Houses

    6. Nov 24, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. James Wood champions realism in new book of essays

    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: Chicago Tribune, Saul Bellow, James Joyce, John Updike, Religion and Belief

    7. Nov 6, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Elliott Carter dies at 103; inventive American composer

    Elliott Carter, the great American composer who was born in the horse-and-buggy era but whose music persistently looked ahead by reflecting and unabashedly celebrating the intricacies of modern life, died Monday of natural causes at his home in New York, according to his close friend and assistant, clarinetist Virgil Blackwell. He was 103.
    Elliott Carter, the great American composer who was born in the horse-and-buggy era but whose music persistently looked ahead by reflecting and unabashedly celebrating the intricacies of modern life, died Monday of natural causes at his home in New York,...

    Tags: Charles Ives, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, World War II (1939-1945), Awards and Prizes, Opera (genre)

    8. Nov 13, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Poet Jack Gilbert has died

    The poet Jack Gilbert, who had been battling dementia for many years, died Tuesday in Berkeley. He was 87.
    The poet Jack Gilbert, who had been battling dementia for many years, died Tuesday in Berkeley. He was 87. Gilbert -- who was featured in Monday's L.A. Times -- had been in frail condition at a nursing home for several years before he developed...

    Tags: Awards and Prizes, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Alzheimer's Disease, Arts and Culture

    9. Feb 10, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Al Pacino, Andre Watts among National Medal of Arts winners

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    Al Pacino and Andre Watts are among the National Medal of Arts winners announced Friday. President Obama will confer the awards on Monday at the White House....
    10. Feb 10, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  10. National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medals announced

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    The White House announced the recipients of the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medals today. Poet Rita Dove (above) is the leading literary figure among the seven who will receive the National Medal of Arts, joining actor......
    11. Nov 2, 2011 |Story| WTXX-LTV

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

    <span style=&quot;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: Theater, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Feldman, Electronics, Documentary (genre)

    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 &quot;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: Literature, Miami Book Fair International, Ceremonies, John Lithgow, Mitchell Kaplan

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