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Category Archives: Literature
Hearing Red: Anne Carson at the NYPL
For years, if not for the right reasons, friends have recommended that I read Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red. The verse novel retells Stesichorus’ now-fragmentary Geryoneis, in which Herakles steals a herd of cattle and kills their red herdsman Geryon; … Continue reading
The History of Science gets Literary at the Jewish Museum
Perhaps the best way to appreciate one of the Jewish Museum’s current exhibits, Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries, is to learn a little bit more about why—apart from being, at nearly a thousand years old, inconceivably ancient and … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature, Multicultural, Museums, Visual Art
Tagged illuminated manuscripts, Jewish Museum, Middle Ages, Thomas F. Glick
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Spoken Word on Bleecker Street
Entering the shadows of Le Poisson Rouge, a “multimedia art cabaret” on Bleecker Street, is a bit like being swallowed into the sultry depths of a red-tinted cave. The atmosphere hums with the dampness of drink and low voices as … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Music
Tagged Le Poisson Rouge, Poetry, spoken word, The Strivers Row
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Student Profile Series: Spoon River Anthology Directed by Jimmy Maize
CUarts caught up with MFA Directing student Jimmy Maize to ask him some questions about his upcoming production, which will feature 100 actors. Yep, you read that right. Arts Initiative: Tell us a bit about yourself and what brought you … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Theater
Tagged Columbia MFA, Edgar Lee Masters, Invisible Dog Art Center, Jimmy Maize, Riverside Theatre, Spoon River, theatre
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Princes and Painters in Mughal Dehli – Now at Asia Society
Perhaps the most surreal aspect of immersing oneself into the art and culture of a long-forgotten empire, while residing in New York City in 2012, is the thought that one day, people will look back on our society much the … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature, Multicultural, Museums, Music, Visual Art
Tagged 1857, Asia Society, Dehli, Fall of Mughal Empire, Mughal Empire, Vidya Shah, William Dalrymple
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An Evening of Sex with the Shakespeare Society
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust, Enjoy’d no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, … Continue reading
Surgam and Spring – How They Literally Fit Together
“But what on earth is the Philolexian Society??”That’s a good question, and I hear it a lot. “Columbia’s undergraduate literary and debate society” is probably the best answer (“Victor Hugo’s Court of Miracles given a bath and a shave” is another).The debate … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers, Literature, Student Organizations
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Literary Death Match – Blood will FLOW!
Since 2006, Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match has been pitting writer against writer in bloody showdowns across the globe. From Beijing to Chicago, audiences have been bespattered by writerly verbiage and tickled by the critiques of iron fisted judges. On … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Literature
Tagged Le Poisson Rouge, Literary Death Match, LIterary, Opium Magazine, Village Voice, Sam LIpsyte, Susan Blackwell, Todd ZUniga, M.G. Martin, Forecast, Shya Scanlon, Morgan Meis, Anya Ulinich, James Freed, Amy Shearn, ArtStar, America's Top Model, Top Chef
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Write Right: Revolutions in Publishing
Being a writer has never been an easy career choice, but these days, it is harder than ever. Publishers are only interested in material guaranteed to sell, popular novelsists make peanuts compared to media moguls in television and film, and … Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged All Things Considered, Chad Harbach, Freedom, Jonathan Franzen, n + 1
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