Word: mason
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...started the weekend after Tuesday the eleventh. The Small Press Expo, a convention for independent publishers, had been scheduled to convene in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C. When it got cancelled a lot of very expressive people were left with free time and lousy feelings. Jeff Mason, publisher of Alternative Comics, began organizing a benefit book which quickly grew into trade-paperback length...
Relying on pleasure as a standard of judgment, Hickey has endorsed without shame some of the great middlebrow passions of the past century, from Liberace to Perry Mason. His essay on Siegfried and Roy, the illusionists who make whole pachyderms dematerialize, is the best meditation on a pop-culture subgenre since Susan Sontag met Godzilla. He is suspicious of art that claims to transmit transcendent truths. Jackson Pollock wanted his spattered canvases to represent universal psychic turmoils. Hickey loves them but says they are better regarded as freedom made visible. "They stand as permission for certain kinds of human behavior...
...Perry Mason School of Law Enforcement, where you get them in there and they confess," former FBI assistant director Kenneth P. Walton, who established the first Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York City told the Washington Post. "Well, it just doesn't work that way. You say, 'Tell me everything you know,' and they give you the recipe to Mom's chicken soup...
...about younger people. I like George Saunders a lot—how he addresses the absurdity of suburban living—but I don’t think I write like him. I’ve also been inspired by Barry Hannah, Flannery O’Connor, Bobbie Ann Mason and many others. Basically everything I read influences the way I think about writing to some extent...
...presented the Bundesverdienst-kreuz, or Cross of the Order of Merit, to Abigail Collins, an associate director of the de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES); and to Christoph Wolff, Mason Professor of Music...