From the obituary in the New York Times: Virginia Spencer Carr, a literary scholar whose book “The Lonely Hunter†remains the standard biography of Carson McCullers, died on April 10 at her home in Lynn, Mass. She was 82. [.…
From the Washington Post: “But The Post failed her as much as she failed The Post. I spoke with several young bloggers at The Post this week, and some who have left in recent months, and they had the same critique.
They said that they felt as if they were out there alone in digital land, under high pressure to get Web hits, with no training, little guidance or mentoring and sparse editing. Guidelines for aggregating stories are almost nonexistent, they said. And they believe that, even if they do a good job, there is no path forward.”
I started this blog on January 1st, 2011. I didn’t really know what all my goals were at the time, but I knew a few things. I knew I was spending too much time engaged in discussions on Facebook that…
Just a quick post to remind folks about all kinds of noteworthy events going on this evening (Friday, April 20). Charlie Daniels and Little Big Town will be performing in Forsyth Park in a free show sponsored by Liberty Mutual…
Last night was warm, a little rainy — even balmy — in Savannah. It was one of those nights when the gray skies and myriad reflections from the rain lend the city an emotional complexity that’s not always so prominent.…
There were just three Savannah Kickstarter projects funded in 2010, 38 in 2011, and 27 so far in less than 4 months of 2012.
One of those — Clinton Edminster’s Glitter+Gold — opens at Little Beasts on Friday, April 13th from 6 to 9 p.m.
Savannah can claim George Dawes Green as our own, right? The Brunswick-area native and longtime NYC resident has some deep roots here. George is a novelist (The Juror, Ravens, and others) and founder of The Moth, which has revived the…
Here’s another great web-only interview by Jeffrey Brown of the PBS NewsHour. This one is with Anna O. Marley, curator of “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit,” now on exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937)…
A “sneak peek” of a photoshoot with Gallim Dance (founded and directed by Andrea Miller) of a piece premiering in June at the Joyce Theater in NYC — dancers put it all out there, huh?
The new local public art organization SeeSAW, who are hosting two incredible events during the festival, was created after an attempt to do a public mural during last year’s event was rebuffed by the city. Vinyl Appreciation, a monthly event for DJs and record collectors that is celebrating its 2 year anniversary during SUAF 2012 initially started as a SUAF event, and now serves as the closing event of the festival. On the talent front, the local band KidSyc@Brandywine played their first show together two years ago at a SUAF event in the Civil Rights museum.
A few years ago on Ebay, I bought the 1961 edition of Holiday magazine with Flannery O’Connor’s essay “Living with a Peacock” to donate to the library collection of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home here in Savannah. Today I noticed…
From today’s Washington Post obituary for Adrienne Rich: Rich published more than a dozen volumes of poetry and five collections of nonfiction. She won a National Book Award for her collection of poems “Diving into the Wreck†in 1974. In…
I have posted before about the research of Eric Klinenberg into the growing number of households of one — adults who are living along largely by choice and who are tend to be more social in many respects than their partnered peers.
Tonight, Ray Suarez had an excellent segment/interview with Klinenberg: ‘Going Solo’: What’s the Appeal of Living Alone?
Just a quick note about the nice Google doodle today, an homage to architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. From today’s The Times of India: Google’s doodle today pays tribute to legendary German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on…
