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The Warhol Crater
Via nasa.gov
May 2012
Via Gallerist NY we learn that NASA has named 23 of Mercury’s “impact craters” after art figures. In addition to Nureyev, Nabakov and Alvin Ailey, visual artists like Magritte and Warhol are also honored with namesake divots on the planet closest the sun.
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Pynchon in Public
Via pynchoninpublic.com
May 2012
The dense prose of Thomas Pynchon, born today in 1937, would hardly seem the stuff of a mass movement, but that’s what Pynchon in Public Day aims for: A global surge of “unashamed” public readings of Pynchon and works by “heirs” like Eggers and Foster Wallace.
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Passings: Maurice Sendak
Via nytimes.com
May 2012
Caldecott-winning children’s book author Maurice Sendak has died from complications of a stroke at age 83. Best known for Where the Wild Things Are (1963), Sendak’s unorthodox tales include Bumble-Ardy, released last fall, about a pig whose parents got eaten.
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Appropriating Salinger
Via poetryfoundation.org
May 2012
After being sued for appropriating Patrick Cariou’s photos of Rastafarians, it’d be no surprise if Richard Prince shied away from such moves. Not so: His new project is a reprint of Catcher in the Rye, with a small change: It’s got Prince’s byline and copyright.
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Lit Chips
Via theparisreview.org
May 2012
Step aside, Pantone. These proposed paint chips—based on literary references—offer hues like Gulag (in honor of Solzhenitsyn), Havisham’s Complexion (Great Expectations), Esther’s Sauce (Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar), and Snot (Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden).
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Moist Maligned
Via newyorker.com
Apr 2012
For its new Twitter-based gameshow “Questioningly,” the New Yorker asked readers which English word should be eliminated from the language. “Fecund”? “Phlegm”? “Tebowing”? Nope. By an overwhelming vote, the most despised word is … “moist.”
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Yayoi in Wonderland
Via brainpickings.org
Apr 2012
A new edition of Lewis Carroll’s surreal fable Alice in Wonderland is, aptly, designed by an artist known for creating mind-bending visual worlds. Penguin Global has just published a Yayoi Kusama-designed version of the 1865 tale.
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Poetry Pulitzer
Via pulitzer.org
Apr 2012
The 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, announced Monday, goes to Brooklyn’s Tracy K. Smith for Life on Mars. Published by Minneapolis’ Graywolf Press, it’s decribed as a “collection of bold, skillful poems” that moves readers “to an authentic mix of joy and pain.”