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...nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English. He'd done it, so I clearly remember thinking: it can be done. And once it became a possiblity that was all I pursued. I was probably about 19 or 20. That...
...poetry. In 1998 the publication of The Savage Detectives vaulted him into the first rank of Spanish-language literature, right up there with all those writers he had mocked as an infrarealista. But by then he was already suffering from the liver disease that would kill him at age 50. He had all but completed 2666 when he died...
...brings her to Berlin with Caden’s first child. Time compresses and confuses; after the first half hour of the film, it’s unclear whether Caden’s family has been abroad for a few weeks or a few years, and characters seem to age indiscriminately and disproportionately to one another. Meanwhile, Caden’s theater piece evolves from the abstract—a “pure, honest theater”—to a realized vision, to a new vision of reality itself. Actors’ daily performances take place under...
...time to dust off the cover of “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran. This slim volume of poetic essays is most likely to be found on your parents’ bookshelf—if they were hippies—or in a New Age second-hand bookshop redolent of old incense. Although the bookflap boasts that Gibran is the “3rd bestselling poet” in the world (after William Shakespeare and Lao Tse), his works, including his masterpiece “The Prophet,” have largely sunk into obscurity. The Lebanese...
...Woodies said. Neuwirth’s two-day residence at Harvard began this past Wednesday with “An Evening with Bebe Neuwirth,” where she casually talked about her career and her work. Neuwirth considers herself first a dancer, having begun ballet lessons at the age of five. “I’ve always been moved to express physically,” she said. “Dancing is primal, it’s what we do.” As she moved onstage later in the evening, coaching members of the class...