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Professor Malik Solanka, retired historian of ideas, irascible dollmaker, and since his recent fifty-fifth birthday celibate and solitary by his own (much criticized) choice, in his silvered years found himself living in a golden age. Outside his window a long, humid...

Excerpt from Salman Ru...

Artist : Salman Rushdie

uploaded : Feb 26, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test The things he would somehow suddenly remember about the old home town--over here, for example, is the old white clapboard house they used to live in, and behind it, back a ways, is the radio tower of station KORE with a red light bl...

Tom Wolfe's "The ...

Artist : Tom Wolfe

uploaded : Feb 26, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

We have been up all night, my friends and I, beneath mosque lamps whose brass cupolas are bright as our souls, because like them they were illuminated by the internal glow of electric hearts. And trampling underfoot our native sloth on opulent Persian carpets, we hav...

Marinetti's Futurist M...

Artist : Filippo Marinetti

uploaded : Feb 24, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

[The Salon Interview] | j o a n d i d i o n | BY DAVE EGGERS Joan Didion's new novel, "The Last Thing He Wanted," is her first in 12 years. Set in 1984, it centers on Elena McMahon, an American journalist who gets tangled up in the covert sales of ...

The Salon Interview

Artist : Joan Didion

uploaded : Feb 24, 2009

by : Sanaz Yamin

Act I: Against Death Since we are ghosts, since we are barely here but for pain and song and sad lights from our memories making it out, since we are brightest before death- Wait ghost! Wait friendly ghost! I’m running after which means I thought of running...

Act I: Against Death

Artist : Ish Klein

uploaded : Feb 24, 2009

by : Nicole Pollentier

<b>The Will</b> Today I realized that I have been smiting people. At them I have been throwing small things that I wish were bigger but I am afraid of getting sued. I would also probably smite an animal if it acted like a person who I would want...

The Will

Artist : Ish Klein

uploaded : Feb 24, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

Painter Kevin Moore displays impressive photorealist technique in his wide-ranging show, Album, juxtaposing gemütlich still lifes and portraits with uncompromising conceptual studies. The former are gleaned from Moore’s life as a husband and father: a bouquet of o...

Kevin Moore Review

Artist : Kevin Moore

uploaded : Feb 19, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

Carlo Scarpa was born in 1906 in Venezia, Italy. In 1922-24 he began his first projects as a collaborator in the office of Architect V. Rinaldo and in 1926 obtained his diploma of Professor in Architectural Drawing at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Venice. He then ...

Carlo Scarpa Biography

Artist : Carlo Scarpa

uploaded : Feb 18, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

<b>CHAPTER ONE</b> On October 21, 1805, an English fleet commanded by Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson hunted down and annihilated the combined fleets of France and Spain in an immense sea battle off Cape Trafalgar, near the Spanish coast. The Battle of Tra...

Excerpt from 'Six Frig...

Artist : Ian Toll

uploaded : Feb 02, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State’s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towar...

"Brave New World&...

Artist : Aldous Huxley

uploaded : Feb 02, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

Cash isn't the only thing I take from my father's study when I leave home. I take a small, old gold lighter--I like the design and feel of it--and a folding knife with a really sharp blade. Made to skin deer, it has a five-inch blade and a nice heft. Probably somethi...

Haruki Murakami's &quo...

Artist : Haruki Murakami

uploaded : Feb 02, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

Questions are routinely thrown my way … I am, of course thinking about other things, asking myself my own questions: Am I a fitness junkie? Man vs. Conformity? Can I get a date with Cindy Crawford? Does being a Libra signify anything and if so, can you pro...

Canons of Transgression

uploaded : Feb 01, 2009

by : Marc Lafia