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Richard Dawkins is my hero. I read his opus The Selfish Gene in high school and it rocked my world. For those of you who aren’t familiar with his beautiful prose style and beguiling ideas, Richard Dawkins is arguably the most prominent evolutionary thinker of our time (sorry Gould, I think he has you beat hands down). His major contribution to evolutionary theory has been the concept of the gene as the fundamental unit of natural selection, not the organism or the species. He conceives of organic beings designed by genes as gigantic Rube Goldberg contraptions meant...
...Decode" has set itself up for a bigger challenge. Moving comics into a public performance space demands a comparable broadening of the audience's experience of the work. Frankly "Comics Decode" hasn't figured out how best to do that yet. Where an author's reading of poetry or prose can shift the emphasis off certain words and onto others, exposing new meanings, comix' visual nature makes this much harder. The performance of comix must turn into more of a show. As a guide the producers and participants of "Comics Decode" should look to Ben Katchor...
...final piece of the evening was “Boys” by Rick Moody. The short story explores the changing lives of maturing children with a narrative style perhaps closer to poetry than prose. LeBow, who played the father last year in the A.R.T.’s world premiere of Adam Rapp’s Nocturne, lent his rich voice to a blunt delivery that gave the comic and dramatic moments of the story equal power. The story is too short and well crafted to ruin with synopsis, but it reveals the humanity of the sort of rambunctious...
...novel’s harmonious, liquid style, which weaves a simple love story, doesn’t quite make up for its length or melodramatic mood. Still, it is worth the effort of climbing through the elongated drama and elusive passages just to experience the beauty that is the prose. In The Pickup, Gordimer shows that love does not always transcend the physical and emotional needs of individuals. Julie’s “pickup” changes her and allows her to experience a new world, but the love that beckons is not enough to keep her from...
...rich and compelling as Junger’s prose is, the gathering of articles from Vanity Fair, Men’s Journal and Outside Magazine hardly seem a worthy sequel to his expansive Perfect Storm. What makes the book worthwhile though, are two messages for America in the wake of last month’s terrorist attacks. The first pure happenstance, the second more obvious...