Posts tagged “Thomas Mann”
Time Lapsed Comparison
What some of my favorite famous writers were doing when they were 22 years old: Richard Brautigan – 1957 By 1956, Brautigan had settled in San Francisco, California. There he sought to establish himself as a writer, was known for handing out his poetry on street corners, and often participated in “Blabbermouth Night” readings at [...]
“‘Art advances,’ Kretzschmar wrote, ‘and does so by means of the personality, which is the product and tool of its times and in which objective and subjective motives are joined beyond differentiation, each assuming the form of the other. Art’s vital need for revolutionary progress and achievement of the new depends on the vehicle of [...]
Put the Stopper Gently
So the second set of my hyper-photo series “A Tax of Images” has been instituted. That once-attractive Sigur Ros review did not exactly fit into my schedule, though I should briefly say how much I highly recommend all the tracks on it, if only because the album rouses and rattles, through its dichotomous ease and [...]
Upon surfing I saw a wave . . .
I am not one to steal these sorts of indulgences from other blogs, but today is a day of exceptions. I snagged this while tag surfing off of the WordPress Blog, Sherri Blossoms. The Big Read, an initiative by the National Endowment for the Arts, has estimated that the average adult has only read 6 [...]