Rebel Music

I really enjoyed this short piece in the New York Times this morning. It’s always interesting to hear how interesting artists came to their art. Along (very roughly) the lines of Felsenfeld’s experience, I’ve often wondered why MTV doesn’t occasionally … Continue reading

Some write ideas

This post from a little while back on Linda Cracknell’s excellent Walking and Writing blog took me to this feature in The Guardian. Lots of the usual strongly held but yawn-worthy prescriptions and proscriptions about adverbs and adjectives, exclamation points, … Continue reading

A really interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times about archiving digital material, featuring Salmon Rushdie and Emory University, my niece R’s alma mater. “…archivists are finding themselves trying to fend off digital extinction at the same time that they … Continue reading