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From Stephen Elliott
Buried treasure has been unearthed at the New York Public Library: six unpublished pages of Truman Capote’s unfinished novel Answered Prayers.
They’re from a chapter called “Yachts and Things,” and you can read them in this month’s Vanity Fair.
...moreMaurice Sendak’s got a children’s book out, which makes it a total of 30 years since his last written/illustrated masterpiece.
This thirty year period wasn’t exactly silence—he’s been illustrating books, designing operas, etc., Bumble-Ardy just marks his return to a wholly written and illustrated production.
...moreJason Silva is working on a film, Turning Into Gods (trailer below), that is filling in the space between science and art. He considers their dichotomy which is becoming more and more important with all the recent advances in nano/biotechnology.
...moreGangland tours of LA, with one helluva waiver.
In New Orleans, what happens when sex workers are prosecuted as sex offenders.
A brilliantly written profile of a sniper.
“(M)y grandmother’s feet were bound in China, and there were people here in the U.S. who said, “This is horrific.” And there were people in China who said, “This is horrific.” I am so glad they said it was horrific.
...more“‘Tarantulas’ was the term the late-19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche—steady … steady … some of us rich people went to college, too—used for those who are consumed by resentment. Unable themselves to be great men, they burn with a feverish fervor, expressed as righteous anger, to tear down the reputations of those who are.
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