December | 2012

Fairy tales and beggars: 30 Dec-5 Jan 2013 (ZiR)

December 31, 2012 by Alexia Raynal

Fairy tales and beggars: 30 DEC – 5 Jan 2013 (ZiR) Alexia Raynal [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 30 December 2012 Fairy tales remind us our primitive selves. Perhaps this is why I cannot stop reading the stories in Calla’s edition of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales, a wonderfully illustrated and thick volume I got as a holiday a present. These are the first lines I read in “Jorinda and Joringel”: There was once […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: fairy tales, Shakespeare, The Guardian

Reading 23-29 December 2012 (ZIR)

December 29, 2012 by William Eaton

Reading 23-29 December 2012 (ZiR) Texts William Eaton has been pleased to spend time with this week [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 23 December 2012: Sort of coming to an end To a pre-Christmas dinner in Cambridge, Mass., I bring to my mother and one of my sisters copies of Wally Shawn’s Paris Review interview [Wallace Shawn, The Art of Theater No. 17]. I was alerted to this text by one […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: art, education, Elizabeth Grosz, New York Review of Books, psychotherapy, sexual difference, sociology, Wallace Shawn, working class

Thoreau Looms Up Bigger and Bigger

December 21, 2012 by William Eaton

Thoreau Looms Up Bigger and Bigger By William Eaton Review of Thoreau in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates, edited by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (University of Iowa Press, 2012) This volume put together by Professor Petrulionis, a Thoreau scholar, offers plenty of justification and anecdote for those who would continue the beatification of Thoreau, and for those who would revel in the wonders of what […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Emerson, Thoreau, Walt Whitman

Reading 16-22 December 2012 (ZIR)

December 16, 2012 by William Eaton

Reading 16-22 December 2012 A Week of Reading in the Life of Rachael Benavidez [N.B.: This is not part of the Fall issue of Zeteo, but one in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 16 December 2012 Reading a page from the New York Times: “It’s the End of the World,” which contains six poems on endings. LEAVE A MESSAGE When the wind died, there was a moment of silence for the wind. When the maple […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: New York Times, Wallace Shawn

The Art of Scent, Diller, Scofidio & Renfro, Museum of Arts and Design in New York City (MAD)

Nothing to Sniff At

December 14, 2012 by William Eaton

Nothing to Sniff At By Jeffrey M. Barnes Review of The Art of Scent, an exhibit at The Museum of Arts & Design, Columbus Circle, New York City, November 20, 2012 to February 24, 2013. The Museum of Arts and Design in New York City (MAD) opened its first (and possibly the first) exhibit devoted to “The Art of Scent,” on November 20. With it Chandler Burr, MAD’s recently appointed “Curator of Olfactory Art,” confronted some formidable challenges. One […]

Categories: Review • Tags: perfume

Reading 9-15 December 2012 (ZiR)

December 11, 2012 by William Eaton

Reading 9-15 December 2012 (ZiR) A Week of Reading in the Life of Caterina Gironda [N.B.: This is not part of the Fall issue of Zeteo, but one in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 10 December 2012 I hate to start the week out on such a serious note, but this article about rape has consumed every bit of thought-space in my brain since a friend of mine sent it my way seeking […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: rape

We Are Also What We Eat With

December 11, 2012 by stewchef

By Claire Stewart A review of Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson (Basic Books, 2012) Bee Wilson’s Consider the Fork is more than just a pretty book (and it is indeed a pretty book). It is more than just another one-topic text to be added to the book shelves of culinary geeks. This volume can happily settle in next to heavyweight culinary benchmarks such as Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking (1984), […]

Categories: Review • Tags: cooking

“The past is always fictional”

December 9, 2012 by Daniel Taub

“The past is always fictional” Crypto-Jews and the Search for Identity in El Iluminado By Daniel Taub A review of El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel by Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin (Basic Books, 2012) “What interests me in all this is the way people create stories to survive, to affirm who they are, to make a stand,” Professor Ilan Stavans tells a police officer in El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel. “We’re constantly reshaping our own narratives.” Stavans is speaking of […]

Categories: Review • Tags: detective novel, graphic novel

Eavesreading Miles and Meatballs (ZiR)

December 4, 2012 by fritztucker

Zeteo is Reading / 2-8 December 2012 Fritz Tucker [N.B.: This is not part of the Fall issue of Zeteo, but one in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 3 December 2012 I know I shouldn’t have, but I started reading the text messages that the woman next to me on the train was writing to Miles, who I assume was her boyfriend. She couldn’t wait for him to get to back to New York […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Oliver Sacks, slave trade, Vladimir Nabokov

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