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Reading 6-12 January 2013 (ZiR)

January 6, 2013 by William Eaton

Reading 6-13 January 2013 (ZiR) Caitlin Mackaman [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.]   6 January 2013 Sundays seem like the ideal day to make a dent in one of Wally Lamb’s lengthy, emotionally taxing novels, like The Hour I First Believed. At the core of this work of fiction is the very true event of the Columbine High School shootings. Lamb’s characters struggle to make sense of the chaos around them […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: humor, Judd Apatow, Vanity Fair

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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

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thoreau daguerrotype

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

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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

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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

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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

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Reading 18-24 November 2012 (ZiR)

November 21, 2012 by William Eaton

Reading 18-24 November 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.]   Began slowly and late, tired from all the work and reading involved in getting out the Fall Issue of Zeteo. Meanwhile Agni sent me their fall issue (the print version), and there were reproductions of the work of the artist Lesley Dill, and she wrote a little […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: environmentalism, evolutionary psychology, love, sustainability

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Two Days with Du Bois (ZIR)

November 17, 2012 by William Eaton

  Zeteo is Reading / 16-17 November 2012 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.] 16-17 November 2012 I have spent the last two days (and then some) reading the pioneering work from W. E. B. Du Bois Black Reconstruction in America 1860–1880 (1935). The New York Herald Tribune called it “a poem, a work of art.” Du Bois applies […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: W.E.B. Du Bois

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Eric Deggans and Talking About Race (ZIR)

November 15, 2012 by William Eaton

Zeteo is Reading / 15 November 2012 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.] 15 November 2012 Reading an NPR interview with Eric Deggans, author of Race-Baiter: How The Media Wields Dangerous Words To Divide A Nation. Deggans was called a “race-baiter” by Bill O’Reilly. The author not only critiques the media’s divisiveness, but believes that Americans lack the vocabulary […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Jacob Lawrence

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