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• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  Rare photographs of John Coltrane on the updated official website Literature: J. G. Ballard :  Rick McGraths Letter from London: The J. G. Ballard Memorial William S. Burroughs : Mark Dery on Naked Lunch at Fifty The Atlantic Online :  Index of Literary Interviews Samuel Beckett : Zadie Smith ...
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• Critical Eye

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Round-up of reviews Tis the season for Christmas round-ups and "Books of the Year" lists. "The publication of the magnificent six-volume Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters will count for many art lovers as the book event of the year," Rachel Campbell-Johnson announced in the Times, although in the Sunday Times Frank ...
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• Endgame by Samuel Beckett – Duchess Theatre, London

  
  Screenwriting Goldmine Blog — Authority: 100
  I’m not a regular theatre goer, but this was an easy call. Beckett is a legendary writer, Simon McBurney is the legendary director of the Complicite Theatre Company, Mark Rylance is reputed to be one of the best actors in the world right now, and Tom Hickey and Miriam Margolyes are both stellar in their [...]
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• Five Questions: Fayette Hauser

  
  OPEN SPACE — Authority: 512
  [Five questions to SFMOMA visitors, artists, staff, or guests.] Heres Fayette in the SFMOMA offices. Name/Place of Residence/Occupation/Hobby? Fayette Hauser, Los Angeles, California. Occupation is a dilemma. Right now I would say artist, writer—I’m writing a book, and archiving my photography, ...
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• Jane Bown – National Portrait Gallery

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  JANE BOWN From 1 December 2009 Bookshop Gallery Admission Free A new display of fifteen photographs will celebrate the 60 th anniversary of Jane Bown’s relationship with The Observer and the publication of her new book, Exposures . Illustrating the longevity and scope of Bown’s career, the photographic ...
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• Display Celebrates Anniversary of Jane Bowns Relationship with The Observer

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 156
  "Bertrand Russell", 1949 ©Jane Bove LONDON .- A new display of fifteen photographs will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Jane Bowns relationship with The Observer and the publication of her new book, Exposures. Illustrating the longevity and scope of Bowns career, the photographic portraits on display will range ...
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• Miroslaw Balka’s How It Is explores the heart of darkness at Tate Modern

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 515
  Miroslaw Balkas How It Is at Tate Modern (the tenth Turbine Hall commission) is a wonderfully evocative piece of art - but don’t go there at the weekend when it’s teeming with families. I was immediately impressed by the Polish artists giant steel container, which fills about half the Turbine Hall (behind ...
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• REVIEW: Redtwist Theatre’s “The Pillowman”

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 137
  Unrelenting yet still insufficient   “ We like to execute writers . . . It sends a message . . . I don’t know what message it sends. I don’t know where it sends a message—that’s not my department—but it sends a message.”       –Detective Tupolski   Redtwist Theatre presents: ...
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• Keith Ridgway on Becketts Mercier and Camier

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  Irish novelist Keith Ridgway writes about Samuel Becketts novel, Mercier and Camier , and the influence it has held on his work: Becketts concentration of the human voice led him, perhaps inevitably, to the stage. By 1953 his boiling down of confusion and memory had revealed the sharp gleaming bone of Waiting For ...
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• Timothy Bateson

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Actor whose turn in Waiting for Godot created a famous opening night
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• James Wood on Paul Auster

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  James Wood of the New Yorker casts a wry eye over Paul Austers writing career, and questions his flirtation with postmodern fiction. Woods article begins with a parody of the quintessential Auster narrative: Roger Phaedo had not spoken to anyone for ten years. He confined himself to his Brooklyn apartment, ...
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• "We are all born mad. Some remain so."

  
  Daily Cow — Authority: 163
  “We are all born mad. Some remain so.” - Samuel Beckett
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• Beckett Between: Paris Conference 2010

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  The École Normale Supérieure in Paris has issued a call for papers for a conference on Samuel Beckett, to be held in February 2010. The university, which happens to be Becketts alma mater, has named the conference  Beckett Between , and welcomes papers relating to translation, bilingualism and travel-writing. ...
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• Simon Critchley: Beckett, Literature, Philosophy

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  In 2001, The Necronautical Society interviewed British philosopher Simon Critchley for his opinions on, amongst other things, death and literature. There is a discussion of some of the major themes running through his book, Very Little... Almost Nothing: Death, Literature and Philosophy , and Critchley is a candid ...
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• Hendrik Wittkopf and Lee Rourke on Beckett

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  In an interview with 3:AM Magazine , artist Hendrik Wittkopf and writer Lee Rourke discuss the influence of Samuel Beckett on their new exhibition, Non-working doing its work : 3:AM Magazine: What inspiration did you draw from Beckett’s essay, “Les Peintres de l’empêchement”? Hendrik Wittkopf: ...
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• Franz Kafka and Philosophy Workshop: 2010

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  A call for papers has been announced for an upcoming academic workshop on philosophy in the work of Franz Kafka, to be held in August 2010. The workshop is part of a larger conference on  Thought in Science and Fiction  organized by Cankaya University in Turkey, and aims to consider various conceptions of the ...
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• Review: Next Theatre’s “End Days”

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 137
    Elvis and Jesus on stage at last Next Theatre presents: End Days by Deborah Zoe Laufer directed by Shade Murray thru November 29th ( ticket info ) reviewed by Ian Epstein End Days , playing through December at the Next Theater in Evanston, is a light-hearted family ...
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• Simon McBurney on performing Becketts Endgame

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  Simon McBurney discusses the terror of playing Clov in Complicites production of Samuel Becketts Endgame : [...] Beckett is special, Endgame particularly so. It is unlike anything else I have played: fastidiously specific, utterly elusive. At any one moment in the performance, you will be aware of someone laughing ...
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• Simon McBurney: Im going to die

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  What goes through an actors mind when performing in one of Becketts strangest plays? The star of Endgame gives a rare insight Mr Rylance, Mr McBurney, Ms Margolyes, Mr Hickey – to the stage, please." There are four flights of stairs from the dressing room to the stage at the Duchess, one of the few West End ...
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• Thespian Nation

  
  BLOGORRHEA — Authority: 115
  Just finished the theater equivalent of Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride (don’t extend the metaphor too far, please) that’s taken me from one end of the county to the other. It started on Wednesday – not with a play, actually, but a theatrical event. Dmae Roberts read from her work-in-progress memoir, Lady Buddha and ...
  3 weeks ago

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