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Reading First Sentences

September 15, 2013 by William Eaton

A Week of Reading from . . . William Eaton, Zeteo Executive Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading. This one was first posted 15-21 September 2013.] 15 September 2013: K.J. Dover, Greek Homosexuality As this is a season for reading manuscripts that are being submitted for Zeteo’s Fall 2013 issue [see current Call for Papers], I have become interested in first sentences and what one can learn from them. So I want […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: American Revolution, Ancient Greece, bees, dreams, Eichmann, Freud, Gatsby, Kant, Nietzsche, Plato, sexuality

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Reading 8-14 September 2013 (ZiR)

September 11, 2013 by Ana Maria Caballero

Ana Maria Caballero, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 9 September 2013 It’s hard to say how truly controversial an article written on poetry can really get, since the controversy will always be limited to the interested few. So is the case with a column published by the Chicago Tribune titled “Where competency ends, poetry begins.” And subtitled “Here’s a radical idea: a little imagination would go a long way.” It stirred […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Harper's Magazine, Isaac Asimov, poetry, Virginia Woolf

The Chosen Comedians

September 9, 2013 by Daniel Taub

The Chosen Comedians Jewish Joking from Nineteenth Century Europe to Twenty-First Century Israel By Daniel Taub A review of No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse (Princeton University Press, 2013) Image—also entitled “No Joke”—is from Drew Friedman, the author of The Fun Never Stops, Old Jewish Comedians, and More Old Jewish Comedians. The sketch, or “visual comment” appeared in Vanity Fair’s “VF Daily sketchbook” on July 29, 2008. [click for pdf] Have you heard the one about the […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Auschwitz, comedy, George W. Bush, Holocaust, humor, Israel, Jews

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Reading 1-7 September 2013 ZiR

September 4, 2013 by William Eaton

Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 3 September 2013 I’m reading way too much right now, if that’s even possible, and it’s all rather intense. I just finished Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism (1955). His harsh criticism of colonialism’s poetic nature serves to further emphasize the emotional impact of his subject matter as he notes that in order for the colonizer to “civilize” the colonized, he must transform himself. …. They […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: poetics, poetry

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The Unfeathered Bird

September 3, 2013 by Ed Mooney

Katrina van Grouw’s Picked Bones, Plucked Hens, Plumed Skeletons By Edward F. Mooney Review of The Unfeathered Bird by Katrina van Grouw (Princeton University Press, 2013). Click for pdf. I have always pictured birds in flight, singly or in flocks, or tending eggs; regal swans, slowly drifting, or birds swooping down for a fish or a mouse. But elegant drawings of birds undressed—bones picked dry, neither dead nor alive? I’ve never seen the likes of these—inhabitants of a nether […]

Categories: Review • Tags: birds

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Reading: 25-31 August 2013 ZiR

August 28, 2013 by fritztucker

Fritz Tucker, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 28 August 2013 I just read Shah of Shahs, by Richard Kapuscinski. It was the perfect book for getting back into the academic mood in the late summer without actually being an academic. Written from the first person perspective of an Iranian revolutionary journalist by a Polish man who was not actually present during the Iranian Revolution, Kapuscinski nevertheless gets to the heart […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Iran, revolution, Richard Kapuscinski

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Cultural meltdown: 18-24 August 2013 (ZiR)

August 20, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Managing Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 18 August 2013 I’ve recently heard my friends speak about seemingly “new” neighborhoods. They talk about SoHa and SoBro—which really mean South Harlem and South Bronx. . .the revitalized self in them. I guess they call them that way to avoid negative stereotypes. How would people judge them if they were to speak of the slummy Bronx, or untamed Harlem? I bet they’d […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: art, death, Henry James, poetry, Wallace Stevens, Whitney Museum

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Translating Baudelaire

August 11, 2013 by William Eaton

My hobby this summer has turned out to be translating lines from Baudelaire.

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Baudelaire, French, poetry, translation

Reading: 4-10 August 2013

August 5, 2013 by William Eaton

Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 4 August 2013 For a bit of summer reading, I just today finished Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog) (1899), which he originally intended as a serious travel guide but became an exercise in hilarity. We all hear that inner voice when we read, which is relatively consistent. For some reason, I heard the voice […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Franz Kafka, Henrietta Lacks

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