Several months ago the L.A. Times’ Carolyn Kellogg pointed out how amazing it is that long-dead authors can “continue to exist, in shadowy form, on You Tube.” Today I uncovered several videos of the great James Baldwin. The one above is my favorite. It makes me wish he could have lived to see Obama inaugurated.* * But I reckon he’d . . .
Letters threatening to kill 55 people in Seattle’s gay bars this month quote poet Mark Doty’s “A Display of Mackerel.” (Via.)
NY budget cuts nullify arts grants awarded but not paid, while Yankees get help for $370 mill in stadium cost overruns. (Via.)
Copies of Lush Life are hard to come by in NYC nowadays — maybe because Price so ably sends up the city’s unsustainably decadent past decade?
Two centuries after Poe’s birth, the creator of modern horror is taught in almost every school in America. How well is another matter entirely.