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Richard Brody writes in memory of Ric Menello, a beloved cinematic savant: http://nyr.kr/XZA61J
(Source: newyorker.com)
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"A Jason Molina who was broadly embraced… wouldn’t have been Molina at all."
— Ben Greenman reflects on the recently deceased singer-songwriter, Jason Molina: http://nyr.kr/XX8Xuc(Source: newyorker.com)
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"Those musicians, too hip for their own good, who dismiss Brubeck as square do so at their own loss."
— Taylor Ho Bynum remembers Dave Brubeck: http://nyr.kr/YFR8l6(Source: newyorker.com)
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The jazz pianist Dave Brubeck died on Wednesday in Norwalk, Connecticut, one day short of his ninety-second birthday…
Looking back at Dave Brubeck, who was profiled in the magazine in 1961: http://nyr.kr/11MxnHr
Photograph by Guy Le Querrec/Magnum.
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Postscript: Stephen Kotkin on the late historian Eric Hobsbawm and the question of influence: http://nyr.kr/Qkmwy9
Photograph by Peter Marlow/Magnum.
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“The Pale King” was Wallace’s final book, the one he kept at for ten years and that defeated him, and everyone looking in these six boxes should prepare herself for Wallace’s pain.Click-through for more from D. T. Max on the recently opened archives of David Foster Wallace’s “Pale King,” and for enlarged images: http://nyr.kr/TMWQiH
(Source: newyorker.com)
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A look back at Tad Friend’s 2010 piece on Phyllis Diller, “Diller at Ninety-Two”: http://nyr.kr/P9PLlr
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"To ‘package’ her charms irresistibly for a good provider, she preached, a single girl should provide for herself. And that may be Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career."
— Judith Thurman on Helen Gurley Brown, 2009(Source: newyorker.com)
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Hilton Als on writer and performer David Rakoff, who died yesterday: http://nyr.kr/QMMwnn
Photograph by Larry Busacca/Getty Images/Tribeca Film Festival.
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Remembering Mark O'Donnell: "Ohio-Born and Harvard-Frosted"→
Click-through to read Steve O’Donnell’s remembrance of his brother, the playwright and author Mark O’Donnell, who passed away Monday, and for a few of Mark’s humor pieces for the magazine: http://nyr.kr/Nz50T1
