Inspired by the Jerzy Kosinski scandal
Davey Holmes’ (Damages) play, “More Lies About Jerzy,” inspired by the life of (onetime personal obsession) Jerzy Kosinski, runs in Los Angeles May 15 through June 26.
Davey Holmes’ (Damages) play, “More Lies About Jerzy,” inspired by the life of (onetime personal obsession) Jerzy Kosinski, runs in Los Angeles May 15 through June 26.
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory… The work of a poet never ends. It has nothing to do with working hours.” — Jorge Luis Borges, speaking to Argentinian filmmaker German Kral. In the same clip,* Kral, . . .
Obviously I’m thrilled to be included in the Times’ (UK) list of “Forty bloggers who really count.” As is my nature, I also feel anxious and unworthy, but at a certain point (which came for me a long time ago) it is tacky and seems disingenuous to say so. Feel free to call me on that. This month marks eight . . .
Even some scholars read Mark Twain’s Fenimore Cooper diatribe literally, but the offenses listed in the essay, as in much of the best satire, are greatly exaggerated.
From now on, when people inquire how I feel about working a day job, I think I’ll defer to Philip Larkin. Asked about his life as a University of Hull librarian, the poet replied: Taking it all in all, work and I get on fairly well, I think. There are just these occasions when one would like to prove it . . .