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Podunk and Toonerville – I of II

January 8, 2015 by William Eaton

Part II (15 Jan ’15) – “Last Exit to Elsewhere” – illustrates Mr. Heat-Moon’s superb writing   I was going to stay on the bent and narrow rural American two-lane, the roads to Podunk and Toonerville. Into the sticks, the boondocks, the burgs, backwaters… Into those places where you say, “My god! What if you lived here!” The Middle of Nowhere. Blue Highways, William Least Heat Moon’s classic 13,000 mile drive in 1978 through the nation’s back roads — its blue […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: blue highways, road trips, travel, william least heat moon

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Welcome to our Borders Issue

January 7, 2015 by William Eaton

The theme of this issue is that of every Zeteo issue: Borders. We are interested in transgressing the borders between the personal, the political, and the intellectual, and in pieces that cross the boundaries between academic fields. This Fall 2014 issue—our largest and most unified to date—makes our interest in borders explicit, as the contributing writers and artists explore: How Presidential candidates are using and abusing popular music. What beauty can be made from our sad economic and political news. How terraforming […]

Categories: Fall 2014 Issue, Issue Welcomes • Tags: borders, welcome

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Masking

January 7, 2015 by fritztucker

The holiday season ended with my brother, who went to high school with Azealia Banks, showing me her 212 video, which is amazing, but which was inevitably followed by my first Iggy Azalea video, which was less so. Iggy Azalea’s behavior, for anybody who’s watched or listened to Fancy, is obviously problematic. Nevertheless, it’s important to discern between what we can and can’t blame on Iggy. Musically, Iggy Azalea is merely the latest in a long line of white musicians to borrow heavily from black musicians. If […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL

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Rich Possibilities

January 6, 2015 by Ana Maria Caballero

In this, my first post of a brand new year, I offer a poem about possibilities. It is by poet Adrienne Rich, who died in 2012 after a hugely successful career as a poet and essayist, feminist and activist. The poem below feels like it was written after a turning point, or significant change, in her life. Indeed, she had many. Here is a great article from The Guardian about the poet. And, here is The Poetry Foundation’s summary of her […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: books, lit, literature, poetry, reading, writing

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“What are the unreal things, but the passions that once burned one like fire?”

January 4, 2015 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link]   Given that Mike Leigh and Timothy Spall are now offering us such a rich, idiosyncratic portrait of the painter J.M.W. Turner, and given that the movie, for whatever silly reason, takes a detour to make fun of the art critic John Ruskin, I should begin with this: Who cares whether Mr. Ruskin’s views on Turner are sound or not? What does it matter? That mighty and majestic prose of his, so fervid and so fiery-coloured in its […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: dialogue, History, J.M.W. Turner, John Ruskin, literature, Mike Leigh, movies, Oscar Wilde

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Marianne Faithfull’s chant of resistance

January 2, 2015 by William Eaton

Sixties icon Marianne Faithfull, who now lives in Paris, did a great concert in Rouen a few weeks ago. I was intrigued by ‘Mother Wolf’, one of the songs she sang from her new album, Give My Love to London. Mother Wolf, a character taken from Kipling’s Jungle Book, is of harboring a cub that isn’t hers. She defies her accusers, replying that he is hers now and that she’ll fight to the death anyone who says he isn’t. She […]

Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: politics, women

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The Gifts of Travel – II of II

January 1, 2015 by William Eaton

Selected authors’ observations on the “gifts of travel” Part I – Dec 25, 2014 Part II – Jan 01, 2015 On this season’s Christmas and New Year’s Day, from a few of the “classic” travel books that I reviewed in 2014, I am asking, what do some of the best travel writers, past and present, have to say about the gifts of travel? One of travel’s most valuable presents is “getting away from it all.” Observes acclaimed author Pico Iyer […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: phil caputo, pico ayer, travel

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