Word: readerly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...still unfinished / a sky filled with stars uncharted by astronomers / a sketch by Leonardo a song broken off from emotion / A pencil a brush suspended in the air”So Julia Hartwig’s “In Praise of the Unfinished” concludes, leaving her readers suspended in their own emotions. And yet this momentary captivity is liberating: while emotionally entangled, we achieve intellectual freedom by virtue of the poems. We continue on in our incomplete lives armed with the completing questions. Even at 85, Hartwig still discovers new mysteries of life to explore...
...love to read, but the pleasure has always been mitigated by the uneasy sense that I should be doing something else, something more unambiguously productive,” photographer Moyra Davey writes in the introduction to the literary anthology “Mother Reader.” Davey, whose retrospective photographic exhibit “Long Life Cool White” is currently on display at the Fogg Art Museum, sought to remedy her unease by combining productivity and pleasure.Davey’s beloved books are everywhere in her photographs. They appear first in four oversized photographs of books...
...touching. Though he finds himself deflated in his attempt at sex, he is able to laugh at the episode and ends the chapter praising the love he has now found with his family. As the book goes on, the solid lineup of writers consistently performs. To keep the reader thoroughly engaged, many chapters experiment with forms other beyond plain prose. For example, Alex Gregory, a cartoonist for The New Yorker, contributes two brilliant cartoons about situations in which technology has harmed relationships. David Wain, co-writer of “Wet Hot American Summer,” offers a script...
...ideas behind Diamond is that [the models] are not just sexy girls, but intelligent, smart, successful, Harvard girls,” he said. “I want the reader to understand who they are what they’re doing in their lives. I read the interviews in Maxim...
...Galison and Moss do zero in on specific examples like the Reynolds case, the statements made in their interviews deal mostly in generalities about the political and ideological ramifications of withholding secrets from the American public. This kind of discourse turns the viewer into little more than a newspaper-reader and makes the personal story of Reynold’s widow seems reflexively important but oddly foreign. In a series of remarks before a screening at the Harvard Film Archive, Moss himself admitted that, in filming “Secrecy”—which premiered at the Sundance...