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Literary Sneakers, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
June 13, 2014
On the Shelf
Because books and footwear belong together. Photo: Courtesy of New Balance
Donald Hall, who published poems in our first issue, has taken to the
Concord Monitor
to excoriate a senator in verse
: “Get out of town, / You featherheaded carpetbagging Wall St. clown, / Scott Brown!”
Today in crass commodification: New Balance is releasing
a series of shoes based on great American lit
. “No one captures the essence, spirit, and the American experience better than American authors and the stories they have told throughout history. For the Made in USA Authors Collections, we pay homage to great American authors by building a collection inspired by their stories and moments.” The shoes are three hundred dollars a pair and “aren’t specifically tied to an author’s name.”
“
The history of the professional executioner
is a chronicle of perfecting the choreography of death. It’s a story of exacting skill and the never-ending search for a more efficient means to enact (and contain) the spectacle of death.”
Bob Silvers
talks to
The Guardian
about the
N
ew York Review of Books
, which is to be the subject of a new documentary by Martin Scorsese.
No plans this weekend? Paint your actuary! “It might seem strange that an artist would lavish such care on the nuts and bolts of something so mundane, like a poet writing couplets about a corporate expense report. But …
accounting paintings were a significant genre in Dutch art
.”
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