Stop Beckett: the writer’s early correspondence
“Beckett’s style took time to develop — a lifetime, in fact — but his early letters offer fascinating glimpses of its first stirrings.”
“Beckett’s style took time to develop — a lifetime, in fact — but his early letters offer fascinating glimpses of its first stirrings.”
When I and some friends reconnected with our senior-year high school English teacher at Facebook recently, he posted our syllabus, which was amazing to encounter after all this time. The class was my first exposure to Borges, Conrad, Dostoyevsky, Heller, Kafka, and many other writers I still admire. Near the start of the year, we read “Noon Wine,” the story . . .
For the duration of its The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia show, the Guggenheim has given over its rotunda to Ann Hamilton’s “human carriage.” When set in motion, a simple and strangely beautiful little silk-canopied trolley circles the balustrade spirals, top to bottom, carrying Tibetan hand cymbals that ring at seemingly random intervals. Everyone not wearing headphones slowly becomes . . .
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