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Read This And You Will Become Smart And Go To Heaven
Posted on April 17, 2011 | 2 CommentsDictators often come wrapped in lofty literary pretensions, it seems. And you thought the novel was dead. Suzanne Murkelson has a terrific piece in Foreign Policy about the literary lives...
Fainting Goats
Posted on April 1, 2011 | 1 CommentBack in 1960 my parents bought 200 acres of Williamson County ranch land near Georgetown. It was a rugged but beautiful piece of real estate crossed by limestone ridges, dotted with ancient live oaks and bordered by...
Animal Kingdom
Posted on March 31, 2011 | No CommentsI had never heard of the Australian gem and terror of a film Animal Kingdom until Jacki Weaver was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her sweetly...
The Mick Hits Two
Posted on March 28, 2011 | 2 CommentsDuring the summer of 1961, Mantle and his Yankee team- mate and room-mate, Roger Maris, each threatened to break Babe Ruth’s seemingly unbreakable 1927 record of 60 home runs. As the summer progressed, nothing else in sports seemed to matter. While all that was going on, I was hitch-hiking up the eastern seaboard with a friend named Gentry Lee.
Tahrir Square and Me
Posted on March 23, 2011 | 5 CommentsEgypt and I go way back — forty-one years, to be exact. That is a bare blink of an eye for a country that is over 5000 years old, but...
What I Learned from Television
Posted on March 22, 2011 | 2 CommentsI love television. Yes, I have a PhD and teach literature and all that, but I really like television, including the occasional dip into PBS, the favorite and sometimes the...
For Japan
Posted on March 15, 2011 | 1 CommentA community I visited north of Tokyo, the Asian Rural Institute, sent a message to its friends about shattered glass, structural damage, no electricity, and lots of aftershocks, but no...
Part 2: Flying High with Trapeze Austin
Posted on March 10, 2011 | 2 CommentsLeap and the net will appear. –John Burroughs, American naturalist Last week at trapeze class, I did not successfully complete a “mid-air transfer” i.e. when I let go of my...
Anlo Sepulveda’s Brilliant Film “Otis Under Sky” Premieres at SXSW Film Festival
Posted on March 8, 2011 | 1 CommentOtis Under Sky, a visually enchanting film by Austin director Anlo Sepulveda, makes its World Premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. As an Austin native who grew up roaming the...
Part 3: Documentaries that Change the Way We Think About Art
Posted on March 4, 2011 | No CommentsBeautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of ‘Smile’ is a documentary that proves the maxim that no art project is ever dead. The film tells the story of the...