Saturday, June 01, 2024

Jerry Seinfeld: ‘I Miss a Dominant Masculinity.

 Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

G.K.Chesterton, born in 1874



Study shows phone use boosts mood of teenagers.


Jerry Seinfeld: ‘I Miss a Dominant Masculinity.’


How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science Scientific American


Food & Drink summer recipe special Top chefs’ obsession-worthy recipes, and industry secrets




Law Enforcement Is Now Investigating Attempt To Foreclose On And Auction Off Graceland, Elvis Presley’s Home

Once Presley's granddaughter, actress Riley Keough, filed suit and provided evidence that the organization attempting to foreclose doesn't actually exist, the apparently fraudulent attempt was withdrawn. Now the Tennessee Attorney General is investigating, and so, reportedly, is the FBI, which won't officially comment. - AP

       Sergio Ramírez profile

       The Havana Times has a profile of the Divine Punishment-author -- and former Nicaraguan vice president --, in Sergio Ramirez: “I Live in Nicaragua Through Literature”.


 International Booker Prize


       They've announced the winner of this year's International Booker Prize, and it is Kairos, by Jenny Erpenbeck, in Michael Hofmann's translation.
       The prize has been awarded in this form -- for a novel in translation -- since 2016, and on this ninth try: "Michael Hofmann becomes the first male translator to win". 
       See also the publicity page for Kairos from New Directions and Granta, or get your copy at Amazon.comBookshop.org, or Amazon.co.uk. (The US paperback edition conveniently came out just last week.) 
       (Updated - 24 May): see now also Lisa Allardice's profile in The Guardian‘It was high time I told our stories’: Jenny Erpenbeck on her International Booker winner Kairos



      European Writers' Festival 2


       The second European Writers' Festival is on at the British Library this weekend, with the theme of 'Transformation'.
       The programme looks pretty good.


       Thomas McGuane Q & A(s)

       At Hour Detroit Geoff Koch has a Q & A with the author, in How Thomas McGuane Went From Academic Ignominy to Literary Icon
       McGuane also has story in this week's issue of The New Yorker, and so Deborah Treisman has a Q & A with him about it.


       NSW Premier's Literary Awards

       They've announced the winner's of this year's NSW Premier's Literary Awards, a leading set of Australian literary prizes -- though finding all the winners at the official site is terribly cumbersome, so check out, for example, the Books + Publishing overview
       The Sitter by Angela O'Keeffe took the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, while She Is the Earth, by Ali Cobby Eckermann, won the Indigenous Writers' Prize as well as the overall Book of the Year award.