January 30, 2013 Video & Multimedia All the Difference By Sadie Stein We were excited to learn, on this the fiftieth anniversary of his death, of the new cache of Robert Frost documents that has come to light. The letters, photographs, and recordings come from the personal collection of Jonathan Reichert, a friend of the poet’s, and will be on display at State University of New York at Buffalo starting Thursday. Just to whet your appetite, here’s Frost reading “The Road Not Taken.” It’s good, for those of us who have come to take the poem for granted, to take the words out of the yearbook context and rediscover its forthright beauty.
January 29, 2013 Video & Multimedia Nevermore By Sadie Stein On this day in 1845, “The Raven” was published in the New York Evening Mirror. It obviously follows that we should bring you a recording of Christopher Walken reading Poe’s poem.
January 28, 2013 Video & Multimedia Down the Rabbit Hole By Sadie Stein However complicated Lewis Carroll’s legacy, nobody can dispute its role in popular culture. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has spawned more than twenty adaptations, not counting those works inspired by the 1865 classic. The following, from 1903, is the first: it stars one May Clark, and features some fairly nifty special effects.
January 23, 2013 Video & Multimedia What Do We Have In Our Pockets? By Sadie Stein Author Etgar Keret and journalist and editor Dov Alfon have started a new intiative called storyvid, an attempt to create the literary equivalent of a music video. We bring you storyvid’s first production, a four-minute pilot based on Keret’s story “What Do We Have In Our Pockets?” Goran Dukić of Wristcutters: A Love Story (also based on a Keret story) directs. The short was selected to screen in the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, which runs through the end of this week.
January 22, 2013 Video & Multimedia “Wait While I Get the Feeling …” By Sadie Stein In honor of his birthday—Sam Cooke, live.
January 22, 2013 Video & Multimedia Arthur Miller on The Crucible By Sadie Stein Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of The Crucible. In this interview, Arthur Miller discusses the writing of the play, and the McCarthy hearings that inspired it.