Bob Dylan, Larry Brown, and the threading together of disparate sources
Bob Dylan once claimed to have read every word Larry Brown wrote. His new album cover seems to be an homage to the late Southern writer.
Bob Dylan once claimed to have read every word Larry Brown wrote. His new album cover seems to be an homage to the late Southern writer.
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The intensity of the argument linked above, if not the content, is awfully familiar. I’ve been so insufferable this weekend on the disappointments of the Battlestar Galactica series finale that I owe everyone I know who also watched the show an apology. I wasn’t allowed much access to TV as a child and consequently never learned to do that thing . . .
In a move the critic might not have welcomed, the journals of Roland Barthes have been published, and read aloud onstage.
The handwritten divisions on James Baldwin’s synposis of Crying Holy, the draft novel that evolved into Go Tell It on the Mountain, offer a look at his early thoughts about structure. The page pictured above is the first of four; you can find the rest — and much, much more — in the online offerings of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book . . .