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...book, "like some farmer being paid not to grow wheat," writing essays and doing cover art for The New Yorker rather than doing new comix. Then came September 11, 2001, which, as it did for much of the rest of the world, changed everything. "Disaster is my muse," writes Spiegelman, who began a series of strips on the subject, In the Shadow of No Towers, soon thereafter. Unfortunately, their only American appearance was in a hard-to-find Jewish-American newspaper. Now, at last, Pantheon has collected the ten large-format strips into a fascinating, if all too short book...
...time. Working the crowd Monday night was Triumph the Insult Comic Dog of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. The snarky pooch was missing his trademark cigar, perhaps confiscated by security in strict adherence to the Garden’s no-smoking rules. Triumph’s muse Robert Smigel kept a tight grip on his charge—the puppet never left his arm. Smigel, a longtime Saturday Night Live writer and co-creator of “The Ambiguously Gay Duo,” had collected a few Midwestern guests to speak with him about...
Serving on the jury changed my life. I could do a sociological study on the race, gender and sexual orientation of the jurors and how it played out during deliberations; I could rant about how important a good lawyer and judge are for justice to work, or muse on how my impressions of the jurors changed when we started deliberating...
...entitlement, despite the harsh realities of life. As the film recounts, when the judges of a Miss Manila contest spurned her in favor of another competitor, the youthful Imelda complained so bitterly to the capital's then mayor that he offered her an alternative award, dubbing her "the Muse of Manila...
Believe it or not, North Korea has a literary scene, although its indomitable muse is Kim Jong Il, who keeps writers on the national payroll to pen books about himself and who has personally written (according to Pyongyang) a nonfiction work on film and even some poetry. Kim Il Sung, the Dear Leader's father, once dubbed writers "engineers of the human soul"?but he and his son have always had strict control over the project specs...