Indie Music Hidden Gems Nov 1, 2009
Two Great Under-the-Radar Alternative Rock Albums. Bettie Serveert's "Bare Stripped Naked" and The Owls' "Daughers and Suns" are worth a second listen as alternative rock albums become more accessible to music lovers. (Suite101.com)
Winners of Nobel Prize in literature since 1960 Oct 8, 2009
1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born American. 1977: Vicente Aleixandre, Spain. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
David Denby: “A Serious Man” and “Capitalism: A Love Story.” Sep 30, 2009
(Isaac Bashevis Singer would have been disgusted by the hero s backing away from the babe next door. The Coens humor is distant, dry, and shrivelling, and they make the people in A Serious Man so drably unappealing that you begin to wonder what kind of disgust the brothers are working off. (New Yorker)
Reflection for the day Aug 17, 2009
"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression." Isaac Bashevis Singer. Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
REAL LIFE SPURS NOVEL IDEA Aug 3, 2009
Well, one day Isaac Bashevis Singer came to visit me and he called it 'The Blintz. " Then: "Writers don't make money. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Israeli parliament marks Yiddish Culture Day May 27, 2009
Sholem Aleichem's Yiddish stories about Tevye the Milkman were the inspiration for the 1964 musical "Fiddler on the Roof." The most notable Yiddish writer of recent years is Isaac Bashevis Singer. The language is currently spoken in patches of ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in Israel, the United States, the former Soviet Union and elsewhere. (AZCentral -- News)
Hilton Als: Eugene O’Neill on love triangles. May 5, 2009
Nathan Englander reads Isaac Bashevis Singer s Disguised. Evan Osnos discusses the work of Jia Zhangke. (New Yorker)
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Alien Emotions: The Art World: The New Yorker (New Yorker)
Sasha Frere-Jones: How not dumb is Gaga? Apr 29, 2009
Nathan Englander reads Isaac Bashevis Singer s Disguised. A discussion with the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theatre. (New Yorker)
Jill Lepore: Edgar Allan Poe and the economy of horror. Apr 28, 2009
The Humbug: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker. Edgar Allan Poe and the economy of horror. (New Yorker)
* When banning criticism of religion limits freedom of speech Apr 17, 2009
The posters bear the heading: To Animals, All People are Nazis X a line from the Polish-born Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer ... On the contrary, it was using the Holocaust X which we would all agree was utterly horrific X to suggest, as Isaac Bashevis Singer did, that there are parallels between the way the Nazis treated Jews and the way we treat animals. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Hilton Als: How Katherine Anne Porter perfected herself. Apr 14, 2009
Enameled Lady: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker (New Yorker)
Nicholas Lemann: What media moguls make. Apr 14, 2009
Paper Tigers: Books: The New Yorker. The Wall Street Journal and the Invention of Modern Journalism (St. (New Yorker)
"Miss March" Mar 13, 2009
In the old days -- not, alas, today -- you could read the likes of Truman Capote, Margaret Atwood, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Marshall McLuhan in the pages of "Playboy." Hefner himself has said that if it weren't for the girls, he'd be remembered as the editor of a literary magazine. You may be asking: Why beat up on "Miss March," a relatively small picture (it's being released by Fox Atomic, a division of Fox Searchlight) that isn't likely to become a bazonga hit like "Paul Blart". (Salon)
Vindicating Katherine Hepburn Feb 13, 2009
Streisand directed the film and wrote the screenplay from a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, who attacked the result in The New York Times. I must say that Miss Streisand [as director] is exceedingly kind to herself, he wrote. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
