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Filed under: Headline Shooter Tagged: Anna Politkovskaya, David Remnick, events, Garrison Keillor, Malcolm Gladwell
The Writer’s Conscience: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya & Russia’s Forgotten WarIn other news, a blogger hearts Malcolm Gladwell (“the work’s gone all sparkly”) and has gotten terribly behind on reading the magazine (“the blasted things just keep coming and coming, and i keep picking them up out of the mail pile and stashing them at the bottom of the magazine pile because i’m determined to fight my way through the whole wretched mess without cheating or skimping or missing anything”). Meanwhile, ex-New Yorkerite Garrison Keillor hearts Christmas.
When: Wednesday, December 6 @ 7pm
Where: Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center: 365 Fifth Ave., NYC
“An evening of reading from Anna Politkovskaya’s work and a conversation about the costs of an ongoing but forgotten war.”
Musa Klebnikob, Kati Marton, Dana Priest, David Remnick, among others will feature in the night’s event. I am itching for the opportunity to hear Remnick speak on the subject. He was the Washington Post correspondent in Moscow in the final years of the Soviet Union. The New York Review of Books features a review of his Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker. It is an outstanding overview of the book’s contents as well as Remnick’s approach to reporting and attitude toward his subjects. [NYRB:] “A Far-Flung Correspondent.”
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Emdashes, founded in 2004, is written and drawn by Emily Gordon, Martin Schneider, Pollux, Jonathan Taylor, and Benjamin Chambers, as well as occasional guest contributors. All posts before October 2008 are by Emily Gordon.
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- Reviews: theater writing (for Time Out Chicago)
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- Feature: Rea Irvin: visionary art director, bon vivant, New Yorker founding father (for Print)
- Slide show: the Coney Island Mermaid Parade (for NYCgo.com)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
- Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Homage: Celebrating lindy-hop legend Frankie Manning (for NYCgo.com)
- Inquiry: Does a New Republic redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Interviews: four up-and-coming designers under 30 (for Print)
- Profile: novelist and dance critic Laura Jacobs (for Newsday)
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“You don’t like Christmas? Get a life.” (Huh?????) I didn’t mind the article, and enjoyed his appreciations, but I was a little offended by the title. Since when is it wrong to have a preference in this country? I don’t like Christmas, and I do have a life. This is the kind of condemnation of preferences that shocked me when I arrived back in New York after living abroad for 15 years. I thought it was a free country? (Shouldn’t he say, “You don’t like Christmas? It’s a free country!” ? This is not the kind of self-righteous talk I expect from an NPR person!)
I make good use of Christmas while everyone else is doing other things. For example this Christmas I will be painting my apartment, in peace. Peace on Earth! And Peace in my Apartment!