Mourning Roundup: Feb 2, 2010
FEBRUARY 2, 2010 TAGS:
-The New Republic: The Elegist, “Remembering Yiddish Poet, Avrom Sutzkever.”
“All survivors’ biographies are filled with extraordinary events; so much so that the listener occasionally fears suffering from becoming jaded. Sutzkever’s story itself was no less extraordinary--and just as tragic--as the others. He was forced to dig his own grave at gunpoint; his newborn son was poisoned by the Germans in the ghetto hospital. Less than a year later, Sutzkever would write a poem from a child’s viewpoint begging its mother to:
strangle me with your Mama fingers
That played
On my willow cradle.
It will mean:
Your love is stronger than death.
It will mean:
You trusted me with your love.”
-Dante’s Inferno, The Video Game…
Gamers and English Professors Unite! Hell hath no fury like a poet Scorned.
-On J.D. Salinger’s Death:
Guide to Salinger’s unpublished material from Slate.
Movie Night with J.D. One of three intimate portraits of the reclusive master: The New Yorker
Dave Eggers on Salinger and Howard Zinn, the literary recluse and the intellectual engagé.
Teddy Wayne writes a quick parody in McSweeney’s The Catcher in the Retirement Home:
- The Death Cat's a Cutie
There is a cat that lives in the hospice wing of a hospital in Providence that seems to be able to predict when a patient is dying. A forthcoming book examines this strange phenomenon.
RIP Miramax?
A look back on the years when Miramax pushed the envelope of American cinema, just days after the Walt Disney Company, which bought the studio in 2003, shuttered its doors. But, reports of Miramax’s demise seem to have been exaggerated. Disney is now trying to sell the studio.
“All survivors’ biographies are filled with extraordinary events; so much so that the listener occasionally fears suffering from becoming jaded. Sutzkever’s story itself was no less extraordinary--and just as tragic--as the others. He was forced to dig his own grave at gunpoint; his newborn son was poisoned by the Germans in the ghetto hospital. Less than a year later, Sutzkever would write a poem from a child’s viewpoint begging its mother to:strangle me with your Mama fingers
That played
On my willow cradle.
It will mean:
Your love is stronger than death.
It will mean:
You trusted me with your love.”
-Dante’s Inferno, The Video Game…
Gamers and English Professors Unite! Hell hath no fury like a poet Scorned.
-On J.D. Salinger’s Death:
Guide to Salinger’s unpublished material from Slate.
Movie Night with J.D. One of three intimate portraits of the reclusive master: The New Yorker
Dave Eggers on Salinger and Howard Zinn, the literary recluse and the intellectual engagé.
Teddy Wayne writes a quick parody in McSweeney’s The Catcher in the Retirement Home:
- The Death Cat's a Cutie
There is a cat that lives in the hospice wing of a hospital in Providence that seems to be able to predict when a patient is dying. A forthcoming book examines this strange phenomenon.
RIP Miramax?
A look back on the years when Miramax pushed the envelope of American cinema, just days after the Walt Disney Company, which bought the studio in 2003, shuttered its doors. But, reports of Miramax’s demise seem to have been exaggerated. Disney is now trying to sell the studio.
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