1 Okay, enough of this French stuff. A recent link on current books recalled one of the funniest books, I have ever read, the pure British satire smooth vicious 1888 and 1889 a y by George Grossmith log called me.
Newspaper, originally published as a publication series in Punch Magazine is the fiction of a humble but optimistic middle class man keeps the House in the northern suburbs of London. Parody of provincial spirit has a sharp, bitter meaning which can remind of P. g. Wodehouse, Noel Coward, Marx Brothers or Monty Python (it precedes each of them). This excellent article on the book of the surface draws an analogy between the character of young Pooter Lupin, the rebellious son our hero of the respectable log retention and character later original Jimmy Porter, the Angry young man was invented by John Osborne.
It is easy to draw connections to Charles Pooter. When I read the newspaper I think always beautiful songs that Ray Davies wrote the Kinks. The character that emerges from many of these Kinks songs is Pooter:
I love my football Saturday
Roast beef Sunday - straight!
This composite lyrical character called his house "Isolated" even if "now houses in the street all the same. It has always been my theory that Ray Davies was inspired by George Grossmith novel mainly because he grew up in the northern suburbs of London even where log takes place. These districts are also settings for most of the Kinks songs (as well as by what it the worth, Zadie Smith fiction): Holloway, Muswell Hill, Willesden Green, the latter also the title of a typically Pooter-esque song:
... There is something that takes me calling back
my little semi-detached.
There is no end Pooter connections. Author George Grossmith, then a popular man in British Colombia entertainment media was also a famous comic lead baritone who created roles featured in best Gilbert and Sullivan houses at the Savoy. He created the role of Sir Joseph Porter in h. M. s. Pinafore, the modern General in pirates of Penzance, Bunthorne, patience and Ko - Ko the Lord high executioner in The Mikado. Amazingly, it was a performing artist educated or trained writer. George Grossmith character can be seen moving performance by Martin Savage of Mike Leigh Topsy Turvy film (which has taken the photo at the top of this page). Nervous, fragile and pasty faced, the theatrical dandy in the movie somehow channels Charles Pooter as well.
2 Lev Grossman cloudy article regarding "Person of the year" Mark Zuckerberg is good enough. I am particularly like this:
The reality is that Zuckerberg is not distant, and it is not a loner. It is the opposite. He spent his entire life in the tight social environments, support, intensely connected: firstly in the bosom of the Zuckerberg, family and then in the residences at Harvard and Facebook now, where his best friends are members of its staff, it has no offices and work is impressive. Zuckerberg love be around people. He did not build Facebook so that he could have a social life like the rest of us. He built because he wanted the rest of us to see her.
I felt the same thing on Zuckerberg (which I talked about here and here). Social network film depicts Zuckerberg as grip of popularity, but I think he is obsessed by popularity as a puzzle. He wanted to know how it worked, how it could be designed. I think that it is safe to say that it is the algorithm.
3 Vice Magazine interviews playwright Edward Albee
4 Russell Brand guess recap of himself in the scroll of Jack Kerouac.
5. A team of Russian production transforms of Mikhail Bulgakov the master and Margarita in an animated film.
6 Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library comes to life in Indianapolis! In the meantime, d. g. Myers takes low Vonnegut a few notches, although I believe that posterity will be very kind of Kurt reputation.
7 Litkicks poet Mickey z. interviews of Bill McKibben.
8 Quelles Laurel Snyder when his children book and Down the Scratchy Mountain went out of print.
9 Pens in cojones reviews Bill Ectric, then only the Bill Ectric ponders Steve Aylett and Voltaire.
10 Bat Segundo interviews Cynthia Ozick
11. I have a show called Sing Off which includes Ben Folds as one of the judges, and I noticed that Ben Folds looks a hell of a lot like Jonathan Franzen. For whatever it's useful, which not probably many.
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