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Sunday, July 10, 2022

THE SOLUTION TO, AND CAUSE OF, ALL LIFE’S PROBLEMS

  NAZI HOLOCAUST ARCHITECT ADOLF EICHMANN IS HEARD ADMITTING TO DEVISING FINAL SOLUTION IN NEWLY UNEARTHED TAPES: ‘If we had killed 10.3 million Jews, I would say with satisfaction, ‘Good, we destroyed an enemy.’”

Audio recordings of the architect of the Holocaust boasting about his actions have been made public for the first time, 60 years after his execution for crimes against humanity.

Adolf Eichmann recorded 70 hours of interviews in Argentina, having fled to Buenos Aires after the war. The audio has remained under lock and key and is only being broadcast now thanks to the dogged efforts of a team of Israeli documentary makers.


How Lilith Fair Changed Music 25 Years Ago

For the artists and fans who experienced it, Lilith Fair felt revolutionary. It's success upended concert industry norms and created a new place where female artistry could evolve and flourish. - NPR


I’LL TAKE STORIES BETTER ANSWERED BY STEVE GREEN FOR $500, ALEX: Why We Drink — new video from Reason TV


THE SOLUTION TO, AND CAUSE OF, ALL LIFE’S PROBLEMS:  The Largest Alcohol Molecule Found in Space Yet May Be The Key to Star Formation.


 “We’re trying things out with words, and sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t, but the enjoyment is in the trying” Words  


All her movies are nonfiction’: remembering the life and work of Nora Ephron


Besides outlining a compact chronology of Ephron’s early years and the career she maintained to her deathbed, Doidge’s book highlights the contradictions of the soul contained within a cynical romantic as quick to belittle those close to her as she was to love them

 

        Q & A: Julia Sherwood 


       At Radio Prague International Ruth Fraňková has a Q & A with Julia Sherwood on discovering Czech comics and on translating in tandem


       Marie Darrieussecq Q & A 

       In the Hindustan Times Arunima Mazumdar has a Q & A with the author, in ‘I was reborn as a writer’ - Marie Darrieussecq, author, Pig Tales

       New to me re. Pig Tales: "Jean-Luc Godard bought the novel rights as soon as it came out, in September 1996". (But, yeah, it didn't work out.) 



       Q & A: Arunava Sinha 

       At Firstpost. Chintan Girish Modi has a Q & A with Arunava Sinha: ‘You have to stand by the persecuted in a minority-majority situation’



   New issue of World Literature Today 


       The July/August issue of World Literature Today -- the City Issue -- is now out -- lots of material, just in time for the long (in the US ...) weekend. 
       Of particular interest, as always: the book review section


       Future Library profile 

       At the BBC Richard Fisher visits The Norwegian library with unreadable books -- the Future Library; see also my previous mention -- with the manuscripts -- one new one added each year -- that will only be made public in 2114. 
       The Silent Room looks impressive. 


       CWA Dagger Awards 

       The Crime Writers' Association has announced the winners of this year's CWA Dagger Awards, honoring: "the very best in the crime writing genre". 
       The CWA Gold Dagger, for the best crime novel, went to Sunset Swing, by Ray Celestin. 
       The Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation went to Hotel Cartagena, by Simone Buchholz, in Rachel Ward's translation


COVID-Fueled Teen Depression: Could Swing Dancing Help?


At the age of 16, June Huh dropped out to write poetry. Now a Princeton mathematician, he’s just won the Fields Medal  Hub 


Why is Viktor Shklovsky’s On the Theory of Prose, nearly a century old, still avidly read and discussed in MFA  circles?