Where I will be Tuesday night
At the NYPL next week, Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris discuss their findings on Abu Ghraib’s Standard Operating Procedure.
At the NYPL next week, Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris discuss their findings on Abu Ghraib’s Standard Operating Procedure.
Alison Bechdel goes to a Ministry concert to see her little brother perform. Later, backstage, Jorgensen chats about his garden.
After Bookslut directed my attention to the David Foster Wallace cartoon at pictures for sad children, I read through the archives. Much of the story centers on Paul, who has a crush on a coworker and still shows up to his cubicle even though he’s dead. The call center series is especially good. Last month the cartoonist, John Campbell, was . . .
Did David Mamet’s reading warrant the mass audience exodus it inspired? Now you can judge for yourself. (Thanks, AK.)
In “Nashville’s Other Skyline,” a print-only offering from the current issue of Oxford American, Richard Schweid investigates a different kind of homelessness: living in a motel. Three-quarters of the kids who attend one elementary school in the neighborhood he surveys have been homeless at some point. Almost 90% who start school there in September end up somewhere else by May. . . .