CRITICISM BESIDE ITSELF
World-weary readers! Once again I find myself, really briefly, in the city of broken dreams and shattered promises. If you are in the hood, please swing by the Center for Fiction tomorrow (Fri) evening, where I will be participating, with Rivka Galchen and Mark Athitakis, in a panel titled Criticism Beside Itself.
Speaking of criticism, my former grad school classmate, Enrique Lima, has just started a pop music blog which I warmly recommend to all my world-weary readers. I will quote only the opening line from the brilliant post on the use of sampling by Flo Rida, Jay Z, and Kanye West: “Jameson is right: we live in an age that has forgotten how to think historically.”
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CRITICISM BESIDE ITSELF
Tags: academic life, comparative literature, events, literary criticism, music, Stanford, today's youth
January 22nd, 2012 at 6:11 pm
Video: NBCC 2011 Finalists Annoucements at Artists Space, NYC
Elif’s introduced at ca. 7:07.
http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/video-nbcc-2011-finalists-annoucements-at-artists-space-nyc
January 22nd, 2012 at 8:56 pm
NBCC 2011 Criticism Finalists presented by Elif Batuman
by David Varno | Jan-21-2012
http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/nbcc-2011-criticism-finalists-presented-by-elif-batuman