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...second half of the event featured performances by spoken-word poet Saul Williams, DJ Kuttin Kandi and rappers Dead Prez...
...LIFE AS A FAKE By Peter Carey What happens when a poet decides to teach everyone else a lesson about reality and fakery? It's his life, not theirs, that is changed. Inspired by a legendary literary hoax in Australia, the Booker winner's new novel delves satisfyingly into a world of lies, literary demons and artistic pretense...
...brief career to appear in Paris since 1950. With such accomplished paintings as the big, crystalline Family Reunion and the sensuous, almost Orientalist, La Toilette this small show makes clear how much extraordinary promise was lost with Bazille's early death. Jean Cocteau was a jack-of-all-trades - poet, playwright, novelist, artist, designer, filmmaker and quintessential Parisian socialite - whose career covered the decades from 1909 to 1963. Jean Cocteau, Spanning the Century, which opened last week and runs until Jan. 5 before moving to Montreal, is, like the man, somewhere in the surrealist realm of wretched excess, offering more...
...backdrop. "Passion feeds on abandon," he writes. So it is for his protagonists, who kindle an affair as the country, riven by AIDS and ethnic slaughter but neglected by the rest of the world, descends into chaos. My Life As A Fake By Peter Carey What happens when a poet decides to teach everyone else a lesson about reality and fakery? It's his life, not theirs, that is changed. Inspired by a legendary literary hoax in Australia, the Booker winner's new novel delves satisfyingly into a world of lies, literary demons and artistic pretense. The Lady...
DIED. WARREN ZEVON, 56, morbidly witty rock-'n'-roll poet; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. A reformed hard drinker whose vivid musical tales were likened to mini-screenplays, Zevon first made a splash with the 1978 album Excitable Boy, featuring a novelty hit, Werewolves of London, about beasts who mutilate old ladies and then drink pina coladas at Trader Vic's. He went on to show his skill at tender ballads, true-crime tales and bluesy odes to doom and death in more than a dozen albums. After he went public with his cancer diagnosis last year, he produced...