Jozef Imrich, name worthy of Kafka, has his finger on the pulse of any irony of interest and shares his findings to keep you in-the-know with the savviest trend setters and infomaniacs.
''I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.''
-Kurt Vonnegut
Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.
— Eudora Welty, born in 1909
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
~Kurt Vonnegut
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Last week, they announced the winners of theMagnesia Literaawards, the leading Czech literary prize; see also Brian Kenety's Radio Praha report,Radio Prague alumna Pavla Horáková wins Magnesia Litera award for novel 'A Theory of Strangeness. Hodiny z olova, by Radka Denemarková, was named book of the year; Denemarková is already a three-time Magnesia Litera winner -- amazingly, in three different categories: prose, non-fiction, and translation; see also her literary agency'sauthor information page. Teorie podivnostiby Pavla Horáková took the prose award.
The Post‘s nonfiction book critic was honored “for his ambitious and innovative essays that range across politics, presidential history, immigrant memories, national security reporting and feminist analysis to probe national dilemmas.” – The Washington Post
Next week, we celebrate the best in journalism with the Pulitzer
Prizes. Before then, PBS will look at the life of the man behind the name:
Joseph Pulitzer. Most PBS stations (check your local listings) will air “Joseph
Pulitzer: Voice of the People” Friday night at 9 p.m. Eastern
time on “American Masters.”
Oren Rudavsky’s film
looks at the once penniless Jewish immigrant from Hungary who eventually became
a leading voice in the fight for freedom of the press. Actor Adam Driver is
narrator with actor Liev Schreiber as the voice of Pulitzer. Additional voices
are provided by actors Tim Blake Nelson, Rachel Brosnahan, Lauren Ambrose, Hugh
Dancy and Billy Magnussen.
The cover of the first
George magazine, featuring Cindy Crawford as George Washington. (Courtesy)
This July will be the 20th anniversary of the death of John
Kennedy Jr. So Lisa DePaulo talks to Cindy Crawford, Robert DeNiro, Newt
Gingrich, Ann Coulter and others in an oral
history of Kennedy’s George magazine for The Hollywood Reporter.
DePaulo was friends with Kennedy and wrote for George, which published from
1995 to 2001, less than two years after Kennedy, his wife and sister-in-law
died in a plane crash.
Crawford was one of the world’s best-known supermodels at the
time and was chosen to appear on the first cover of George — dressed up as
George Washington.
“I was like, ‘Oh, OK, that’s interesting,” Crawford said in the
piece. “At one point we decided to cut off the shirt, and it was like ‘Yes!
We’re doing George Washington, but it’s with a wink, you know?’ — with my
midriff showing. … Sometimes I’ll see a special on John, and they’ll show when
he revealed the cover, and I think, ‘OK, that was pretty cool that he chose me
as his first cover.’”
Have feedback or a tip? Email Poynter senior media writer Tom
Jones at tjones@poynter.org. How to Cover 2020: Assume Nothing and Beware of - The New York Times – “Journalists have no idea how the 2020 election will play out. And that’s a good thing. Some of the country’s top political journalists came together last week for a gathering convened by the strategist David Axelrod, to talk about how to cover the presidential race in a way that won’t leave anybody dumbfounded on election night.
Pulitzer Prize 2019: Aretha Franklin honoured posthumously ...
