The theory for comics as an age-old language “builds on a growing acceptance that the brain’s language toolkit is a kind of Swiss army knife for many different kinds of expression, such as music or dance.”
Tag: 11.23.13
Watching Ballet From The Gods (Or, In American, The Nosebleed Seats)
“It’s astonishing how distinct — to my eyes, certainly — necks, feet, waists, thighs prove. Phrasing and dynamics grow in significance. And footwork beams out, like reflective glass catching sunlight from an opposite hillside.”
Time For Artists To Give Up And Found Their Own Political Party?
“I think the government’s ideas about the arts are absolutely appalling and need to be rebutted. And if you don’t rebut it then you can’t complain when things go wrong.”
The Problem With Book Awards
“Some of the best of our writers, even those with international reputations are unknown to the general reader as a result of what we feel is the narrow focus of our reviewers and awards cultures. “
Wanda Coleman, 67, L.A.’s Unofficial, Uncompromising Poet Laureate
“She was most eloquent in poems, illuminating the ironies and despair in a poor black woman’s daily struggle for dignity but also writing tenderly and with humor about identity, tangled love, California winters and her working-class parents.”
How Wanda Coleman Redefined Los Angeles And Its Literature
“When she began to write, as a member of the Watts Writers Workshop that sprang up after the 1965 riots, L.A. literature was largely a literature of exile, produced primarily by those from elsewhere, who lingered briefly along the city’s glittering surfaces and did not invest the place with any depth.”
What The Hell Is Going On With The August Wilson Center?
“It appears to be a victim of mismanagement by its senior staff and board of directors, who borrowed to build a grand palace of culture, but failed to find a wide enough audience and donor base in the hometown of Wilson.”
Nope, The Album Isn’t Dead (As A Matter Of Fact, There’s A Huge New Record Store In Brooklyn)
“Visiting us is like visiting a cultural hub; it’s not simply a place for purchasing. There’s a relative lack of places [in New York] that allow people to hang out in an environment that celebrates the art, not the commodity.”
What’s Up With The Revolutionary (Or Are They?) Politics Of ‘The Hunger Games’?
Is the movie series – and the book trilogy that inspired it – about the 99%, the Tea Party, the Second Amendment, libertarian programmers, or what?
Is It Time To Retire Our Cultural Image Of The Lone, Rugged (White) Novelist?
“It’s a model that isn’t rooted in community, isn’t rooted in humanity, is all about the dollar bills and trite, unhealthy, viral sense of Make Or Break explosiveness that usually makes human shells out of people when it doesn’t all out kill them.”