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...first awards ceremony took place at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on March 16, 1950, co-sponsored by three other literary organizations in a coup of writers awarding other writers. Nelson Algren won in the fiction category for his tragic American hero story, The Man with the Golden Arm, William Carlos Williams in the poetry category for his work Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems, and Dr. Ralph Rusk in the nonfiction category for The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The New York Times noted the following day that "of the principal prize winners only one, Mr. Algren...
...themselves. Rather than pour time and money into fruitless legal battles, they would do well to embrace what Google has tried to start; and in so doing, they could control the project’s development and implementation on their own terms. What makes the conflict all the more tragic, and avoidable, is that there is a road map for this problem. The publishing industry has only to look to their cousin, the music industry. Despite incessant threats, countless legal battles, and millions of dollars spent, music is still digitalizing—if not legally, then illegally. Such industries must...
...After their conviction, however, they said their confessions were coerced and false. Now 26 former FBI agents have released the text of a letter they wrote in July asking Virginia governor Tim Kaine to grant a full pardon to the so-called Norfolk Four, calling the convictions a "tragic mistake...
...itself: an enigmatic, unfinished novel, translated from another language, orphaned by its author. The world, whose number Bolaño indisputably had (was it 2666? We never learn), has subtracted Bolaño from the picture, and we must read his work in his absence. But in a tragic, paradoxical way, his death completes the book: it touches 2666 with the disorder and rootlessness that is its subject. And what more could Bolaño have told us anyway? With what final wisdom could he have supplied us? Gazing at his ruined geometry book, Amalfitano fantasizes about meeting a 19th...
...love him like she loves Caden. But by then, Caden is so swallowed up by his role as the director that he effectively barks dramatic criticism at Noonan’s corpse. It’s more than a tragedy—it’s a tragedy in tragic pursuit of itself. Every layer of the film is so kaleidoscopic and thoroughly disorienting as to constitute an experience totally unlike any other in contemporary mainstream American film.But there’s more at work in “Synecdoche” than can be readily explained. Beyond the Brechtian...