Word: simonal
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...building a career on comedy, but Simon H. Rich ’06-’07 seems to be proving that he is no joke. In his short time as an alumnus, the wunderkind has been frightfully prolific: he is the youngest writer in the history of “Saturday Night Live,” has his work appear regularly in The New Yorker, and has just renewed his contract with Random House after publishing two books with them in the last two years. FM snagged the budding author for fifteen questions...
Michelle By Liza Mundy Simon & Schuster; 217pp...
...Murr Brewster's story is really great writing. The Paul Simon story is raw, amazing life," Petty said. "Either of those can win on this site." The contest's only inflexible condition is that each story must be true; FieldReport checks up on the winners to verify that their narratives aren't fictional. The site's benefit for both writers and readers, according to the founders, is its sense of community. "The blogosphere hasn't given people an effective outlet for publishing this kind of story," Thompson says, "because unless you're really savvy, you're actually just jettisoning your...
Late last month, the New York Times ran an obituary for reclusive Hungarian artist Simon Hantaï. A relative unknown in America, Hantaï was one of the more innovative figures in 20th-century Continental art, producing works ranging from the “Écriture Rose”—a 14-by-11-foot canvas covered in hand-reproduced texts of various origins—to the “Mariales” series—comprised of intricately-folded canvases treated with bright colors, forming beautiful and disorienting aperiodic patterns. For a long period, however...
About 20 minutes into director Robert Weide’s new film, Kirsten Dunst asks Simon Pegg, after he steals her boyfriend’s seat at a crowded bar, “Do you know the meaning of karma?” He clearly does not, but after nearly two hours of such inane dialogue, any limited notion of karma should, at the very least, earn me a free lunch in the next life. “How to Lose Friends & Alienate People,” the movie adaptation of Toby Young’s memoir, stars Simon Pegg...