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...think you do, but I’m more interested as a writer and a teacher in what you don’t know, what you want to know, what you’re afraid to know. Writing is a path of discovery.6.FM: In the book you mention the painter, Don Bachardy, as an artist who exemplifies the daily rigor that goes into any art. What other non-literary figures do you admire?BJ: Right now, like most of the world, I’m fascinated by Amy Winehouse. I’m smitten beyond belief with her music...
...have shown it.” Hartwig’s use of uninhibited imagery wrought with implicit emotion creates a disquieting sensation. Her poems unnerve because they force us to realize the truths we have been hiding, even from ourselves. Hartwig suggests that, like the poem’s painter, men and women attempt to live life constantly behind a screen of pretense. By exposing the painter, she exposes us and forces us to question whether we have remained true to our most deeply held hopes.Hartwig applies the same critical perspective to the ostensibly mundane. By casting light...
...Duchamp who invented this concept, and his friends Ray and Picabia remained fascinated by it all their lives, even if they didn't wholly practice it; Ray used a lot of different materials, from photography to collage, and Picabia was always a painter, if a weird...
...years ago. “All men, including those happily married with children, [remember] the day in which [they] saw an unknown woman crossing the street,” Guerín said in the question and answer session after the screening. He could be “a painter, maybe a poet, maybe a filmmaker.” “Sylvia” is filled with such uncertainties, perhaps because it is almost devoid of dialogue. The film’s lack of clear storyline also leaves it open to interpretation. Even the purpose and importance of dialogue...
Duma, with its maimed painter, follows Lisey's Story, his 2006 literary novel about a writer's widow. And while both books are concerned with the death or near death of an artist, King brushes aside the idea that any of it is autobiographical. He's already done that. "When I wrote about my accident in [2000's] On Writing, I wrote about something that actually happened," he says. "With some of these later books, I'm trying to write about what it means, how that kind of thing changes a person. I certainly don't want...