Bouncing Back
Mark Danielewski, author of the literally page-turning House of Leaves, has a new novel due out in September. According to its Amazon page, Only Revolutions will weigh in at 384 pages, which seems rather light by his HoL standards. In other Danielewski news, did you know that a Dutch publisher put out a limited number of copies of a story of his last year? Called The Fifty Year Sword, there were reportedly only 1,000 copies of this illustrated story distributed, but it must have been reprinted since then because the books is available at this Dutch online store and the asking price isn't what one would expect for a book of such a limited press run. You can read a recent interview with Danielewski and an excerpt from The Fifty Year Sword at The Ledge.
Oscar Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland has called on Russian president Vladimir Putin to protect the rights of gays and lesbians in that country.
Your country in the past has produced great works of art and literature and music, some of it indeed by those whose nature, like Tchaikovsky, was homosexual. It is nothing of which to be ashamed; it is not decadent and depraved.
Holland will be in Russia this spring to participate in the country's first International Day Against Homophobia conference.
For more on Wilde, check out the Oscar Wilde Collection.
Once upon a marijuana-soaked time, I spent a few months researching the horses of Shakespeare for an undergraduate essay on the Richards. I could never get things to come together and switched topics mid-stream. I guess I should have focused on the birds instead. {via}
When a Colorado music teacher showed her class of elementary school students the thirty-three-year-old documentary "Who's Afraid of Opera?", she thought she was doing a good thing. But twelve minutes of the film featured tenor Joan Sutherland discussing Faust with some hand puppets, and the kids were terrified. Nightmares resulted. The teacher suspended. All hell broke loose.
The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch explains the process of challenging a book in a school's curriculum.
Charlotte Church, now 19, has inked a six-figure deal to write her autobiography. This will be her second autobiography. She's 19.
Thanks for the Danielewski news! Didn't he also help out with that Derrida film?
Posted by: amcorrea | February 09, 2006 at 06:54 PM