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Columbia's web page discussing its regret for calling in police to arrest students in 1968 is displaying a warning about limited access due to NYPD on campus arresting students. May Columbia never live this down.
We wrapped our Art + Money Issue today at @TheLocal_TO. Love this package, so much great writing and art, find the whole thing here: thelocal.to/spring-2024/
i wrote about how rich executives have fucked the arts in toronto and how the media has just kind of watched. thanks @TheLocal_TO and amazing editor @nickhunebrown for asking ❤️ thelocal.to/hot-docs-canad…
A beautiful, searching piece of reporting that tackles the topic of parenthood (and all its attendant complexity) with nuance and empathy. "I ask if, perhaps, this type of remorse poses an existential threat, belying an ideal picture of what we might be to our own parents."
A beautiful, searching piece of reporting that tackles the topic of parenthood (and all its attendant complexity) with nuance and empathy. "I ask if, perhaps, this type of remorse poses an existential threat, belying an ideal picture of what we might be to our own parents."
earthquake --> eclipse --> lauren oyler bookforum pan posted online..... im reeling!
Update: Hussain Currimbhoy out at Hot Docs, Heather Haynes will lead this year's festival programming. POV also spoke with a former board member who confirmed reports about deeper work culture and governance issues. povmagazine.com/hot-docs-progr…
Writing about my vision loss has lead to a lot of work in TV and journalism. I wanted to pay it forward. With @sharedbylines I’ve put together a scholarship for blind/visually impaired journalists. The scholarship is for three grand. Apply below. sharedbylines.com/david-brown-sc…
NEW: “We were expected to work in an ever-changing, chaotic, unprofessional and discriminatory environment”: @HotDocs programmers reveal reasons for exodus in joint statement, the same morning the fest hosts opening press conference.
Tl;dr is I loved this book and cried the whole time @TheTyee thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/0…
what’s left to say about an industry that’s crumbling in front of our eyes, about companies that continue to decimate creativity & integrity in the name of profit, that crush humanity for the sake of surplus. it’s exhausting & unfair and soul sucking. we deserve so much better
So what’s the plan here? No news, journalism, criticism, or human-made art? That’s the utopia?
It's . . . February . . .
It's . . . February . . .
i profiled Julianne Moore for @TheCut! lucky me thecut.com/article/julian…
Finally saw Poor Things and have... thoughts. Mostly that I miss writing film criticism :')
Accusations of union busting, the face of a top Starbucks lawyer broadcast over witness' heads, a strange argument over whether a 21yo barista had said the word "fuck" — all ingredients in this venti frap of a feature on a labour hearing by @zakvescera. thetyee.ca/News/2024/02/0…
Late to posting about it, but can't stop thinking about this (typically) excellent @rebexxxxa essay on the nightmare of trying to make it in this world right now. vox.com/culture/2024/2…
“If you waste your time in the right way for 14 years, you might end up with a book at the end.”
“If you waste your time in the right way for 14 years, you might end up with a book at the end.”
recall that Sarah Jama was kicked out of the ONDP for calling for a ceasefire
recall that Sarah Jama was kicked out of the ONDP for calling for a ceasefire
I wrote about the soul-sucking labor of self-promotion and "audience building" that basically every artist/journalist/creative worker has to do now ... unless they are very lucky vox.com/culture/2024/2…
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all of this is not to say that I don’t like Zadie Smith or her writing - her and jane Austen will always be the writers who I grew up with and whose fiction I love - but this is how I think we should engage with writers. Rigorously!
She throws up her hands in despair. This might be because she believes in her own exceptionalism or that being badly politically informed makes one a truer novelist generally. But the truth is it’s not that deep, she doesn’t know a lot about what she’s talking about.
that she simply hasn’t done the reading. Rather than finding the people organising at the frontline of the climate crisis and listening to the leftist movement - people like the characters she depicted in the The Fraud in order to make this very same comparison -
For example, in her last two books, Imitations and The Fraud, Smith has shown herself shifting politically because of covid and climate crisis. She did an interview recently asking “how can we let this happen” about the climate crisis. The issue is
What I am arguing for here, is not “Oh of course Zadie has bad politics she went to Cambridge”, what I’m arguing for is long term critical engagement with the *substance* of her writing, and rejecting the myth of her exceptionalism. (Which ironically I think she’d support).
I’s an endemic problem - born in part from the fact that nowhere does well paid literary criticism or reviews anymore, so we rely on each’s praise in a books industry that is increasing badly paid… but also
Or seems to find it necessary. The fault here is in part hers, of course. But it’s also the fault of literary discourse. When did we become so hungry for representation and craft that we stopped engaging with political substance?
But ultimately, she became famous and got an academic position in her twenties, and has no formal training in literary theory or criticism or politics beyond a BA from Cambridge. I always find it remarkable how little she engages with contemporary or recent literary theory
Zadie Smith is a great novelist. But this sense of exceptionalism around her has often lead critics to overlook the substance of her writing. We’re excited by the idea of Zadie Smith!
Zadie Smith is the product of multicultural Britain and Cambridge uni. She became a star of the publishing industry and then a uni professor in her twenties. Her confidence in the establishment makes sense: it’s what made her and gave her the opportunities she’s had
the whole world should stop for gaza right now and yet im supposed to give a shit about the met gala??
tfw yer face is aging so rapidly none of yer author photos are ever accurate
To be clear, I still consider it "media criticism" when people roast his ass
Please stop engaging with Jesse Brown as though he's capable of good faith. He knows what he's doing. At this point, it's only the rest of Canadaland who can hold him to any kind of journalistic standard.
@TheTyee I've panted up a number of these Chinatown staircases and am always amazed by the seniors who hike up regularly.
Inside the Wongs' storied society in Vancouver's Chinatown: the stairs, school, grand hall, mahjong room, cookie tins, etc. Repairs have always been DIY (you know how uncles are), but they're running to win money for urgent repairs. My @TheTyee story: thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/0…
When your university has barred your students from campus and you’ve just spent the last few days helping some of them prepare for their expulsion hearings and your last lecture is on “the joyful self” I say…. LET’S FUCKING DO THIS
@KindaHagi i feel canadians are polite but not nice. americans are definitely friendlier.
imo strangers are nicer and friendlier in new york than they are in toronto it’s not even a debate
six months as a freelancer! happy anniversary to me. taking assignments and offers to go to lunch jazmine-hughes.com 🍉
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