— Harvey Shapiro
Poetry, December 1964
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Over at The Atlantic is an interesting history piece about a never-made Stanley Kubrick film that, had it been made, would have been the part of the Venn diagram where the theme of today’s interview (World War II) and one of Fresh Air’s favorite things (No hints. Just click.) overlapped.
“Stanley Kubrick’s Unmade Film About Jazz In the Third Reich”:
[I]t’s Kubrick’s interest in jazz-loving Nazis that represents his most fascinating unrealized war film. The book that Kubrick was handed, and one he considered adapting soon after wrapping Full Metal Jacket, was Swing Under the Nazis, published in 1985 and written by Mike Zwerin, a trombonist from Queens who had performed with Miles Davis and Eric Dolphy before turning to journalism.
In related news, John Powers has a review of the new documentary about The Shining — Room 237 — coming soon, AND The Shining is currently streaming on Netflix.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/803fb2e26936c7f64b87be348603d03d/tumblr_mka570MTD01qd9dz2o1_400.jpg)
Over at The Atlantic is an interesting history piece about a never-made Stanley Kubrick film that, had it been made, would have been the part of the Venn diagram where the theme of today’s interview (World War II) and one of Fresh Air’s favorite things (No hints. Just click.) overlapped.
“Stanley Kubrick’s Unmade Film About Jazz In the Third Reich”:
[I]t’s Kubrick’s interest in jazz-loving Nazis that represents his most fascinating unrealized war film. The book that Kubrick was handed, and one he considered adapting soon after wrapping Full Metal Jacket, was Swing Under the Nazis, published in 1985 and written by Mike Zwerin, a trombonist from Queens who had performed with Miles Davis and Eric Dolphy before turning to journalism.
In related news, John Powers has a review of the new documentary about The Shining — Room 237 — coming soon, AND The Shining is currently streaming on Netflix.
Amy Davidson writes about a “very odd exchange” at the Supreme Court hearing on Prop 8 today, and the role of procreation in the case: “If our only concern in all this is what’s good for the children,” she writes, “then we should support same-sex marriage. It protects the children of same-sex couples. It harms no one.” Read more: http://nyr.kr/13uwffo
“At the age of twenty, Jacques Derrida took the entrance exams for the prestigious École Normale Supérieure a second time, having failed, as many students do, in his first attempt the previous year. Fueled by amphetamines after a sleepless week, he choked on the written portion and turned in a blank sheet of paper.”
Emily Eakin reviews a new biography that traces Derrida’s lifelong sense of exclusion and his complicated relation to first French and then American academics.
Photo: Jacques Derrida at the Sorbonne, June, 1979 (Martine Franck/Magnum Photos)
Happy Birthday, love.
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Happy birthday, Tennessee Williams. Here, a series of portraits of the great American playwright.
(W. Eugene Smith—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Day to day hussle and bustle in the life of an urban planner...which is to say, there may be none of that to discuss. There will always, however, be the small things I notice that make this life interesting, complicated and sometimes downright annoying. Oh, there will also be books, art, randomness and cats.
truth mirror
Ken Roth
Black Cat by h3v1l
Nicholas Harding. Art Gallery of NSW / The Archibald Prize
