A conversation between Natasha Boas and Caterina Fake Natasha Boas: The act of bringing a bed into a gallery–a private haven par excellence in a public space-carries so much meaning and engages with so many stories, fantasies, fears and desires. What happens in the act of sleeping in the bed in the gallery? Caterina Fake: Continue reading "Bed for Dreaming: Caterina Fake interviewed by Natasha…
When I was given the chance to host the live on stage conversation with Werner Herzog for City Arts and Lectures in San Francisco I was barely able to believe it. What a gift! What a chance! In preparation I did all the reading–and watching. I watched Aguirre Wrath of God again, marveled at Grizzly Continue reading "What Would Herzog Do?"
Listen to me and W. Kamau Bell on the Ingenious podcast! I hadn t seen Kamau for maybe 15 years, and there he was with his great hair and warm smile and nerdy glasses in the movie theatre at Sundance, at the screening for a documentary on Aum Shinrikyo, edging into the judge s area next to Continue reading "W. Kamau Bell on the Ingenious podcast"
Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. In his first book, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers wrote about snakes shedding their skins. “We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, like, say masturbatory habits (for me, about once a day, usually in the shower), we have given Continue reading "Dave Eggers on the Ingenious podcast"
If you are an avid follower of all my online doings, you may have seen that I have a relatively new Instagram account, Reading by Night. I also read by day, but it is so named because I am a devotee of The Hour of the Wolf the wee hours, as they re sometimes called, the interstice Continue reading "Reading by Night: The Makioka Sisters"
An image of The Easy Life, a new book by Marguerite Duras, crossed my path this morning. How could this be? She died almost 30 years ago. Her work is still being translated into English? OK. Looks like she wrote 34 novels. But also: she directed 16 films! Prolific.
Having been housebound for the past two days, I was able to read this remarkable book about a family of fourteen, twelve children, of which six six! of the sons became schizophrenic in their teens and twenties. An amazing feat of research which follows the family s story, as well as those of the doctors working to understand Continue reading "A Recommended Book"
I asked my friend who hates Thanksgiving why he hates it and he said because it is a holiday based on gluttony. But every culture has a harvest festival, I said, every culture has feasts. Since time immemorial. Thanksgiving is just the latest version. The problem with it, by my thinking, I continued, is that Continue reading "Thanksgiving debunked"
A $750,000 a month advertiser has left Twitter. One of hundreds. But in her post she explained the bases for the decision vis-a-vis her advertising investment in a neutral, non-ideological way. People picked up this post because it so powerfully predicts the demise of Twitter s advertising business, already in freefall and now perhaps beyond recovery. Continue reading "The Twitter Advertiser…
It seems like a good time to post this list of non-crazy conservative journalists and commentators to follow online, given to me by my friend Jason Hirschhorn. I haven t fully vetted these, and I welcome any comments on where these writers lie on the nuts/not nuts continuum, their general merits and/or shortcomings, whether or not Continue reading "A List of Non-Crazy Conservative Journalists and…