“When the first issue of its new Chinese-language edition appears next month, the London-based literary journal Granta … will have a presence in four of the five most widely spoken languages. But plans for the globalization of a leading quarterly that proudly calls itself ‘the magazine of new writing’ don’t stop there.”
Tag: 09.04.12
Enormous Frank Lloyd Wright Archive Headed To New York
“The Modernist architect Frank Lloyd Wright wasn’t a hoarder. But he did save just about everything – whether a doodle on a Plaza Hotel cocktail napkin of an imagined city on Ellis Island … or a model of Broadacre City, his utopian metropolis.” This collection, locked in storage since Wright’s death, “is moving permanently to New York in an unusual joint partnership between the Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University’s Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library.”
Actor Michael Clarke Duncan, Star Of The Green Mile, Dead At 54
“A former ditch digger for a natural gas company in his native Chicago, Duncan began his Hollywood saga as a celebrity bodyguard in the mid-1990s. He received his first big acting break … in the big-budget 1998 movie Armageddon … [and] received an Academy Award nomination for his moving portrayal of a gentle death row inmate in the 1999 prison drama The Green Mile.”