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Il nuovo direttore della Paris Review è una donna di 34 anni Money quote: “The board of The Paris Review Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Emily Nemens as editor of The Paris Review. She will be the seventh editor in the sixty-five-year history of The Paris Review. An editor, writer, and illustrator, Ms. Nemens, thirty-four, has been coeditor of The Southern Review since 2013. She has discovered and published numerous award-winning authors. In the past year alone, her selections for The Southern Review have won two Pushcart and two O. Henry Prizes; three were selected for inclusion in 2018’s Best American Short Stories.” https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/05/announcing-the-new-editor-of-the-paris-review/

Il nuovo problema che Facebook si trova a fronteggiare (cioè i suoi dirigenti, dipendenti e azionisti) è che l’opinione pubblica si accorga di chi veramente sia (e quanto poco all’altezza del suo ruolo sia) Mark Zuckerberg. Egli è in realtà un ragazzotto americano che non sa niente di storia e di politica ma che ha la responsabilità della macchina per il consenso più potente della storia. Money quote: “Zuckerberg told the show's host, Stephen Dubner, that "the world is today more divided than I would have expected for the level of openness and connection that we have today."” https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/mark-zuckerberg-says-he-thought-facebook-could-solve-a-lot-of-problems-but-the-world-is-more-divided-than-he-expected

Se è meglio addirittura di Elena Ferrante, forse il Nobel se lo merita davvero. Almeno, secondo il New York Times. --Grazie a Simo per la segnalazione valida. Money quote: “A strong case could be made for Murnane, who recently turned 79, as the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of. Even in his home country, he remains a cult figure; in 1999, when he won the Patrick White Award for underrecognized Australian writers, all his books were out of print. Yet his work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee and Shirley Hazzard, as well as young American writers like Ben Lerner and Joshua Cohen. Teju Cole has described Murnane as “a genius” and a “worthy heir to Beckett.” Last year, Ladbrokes placed his odds at winning the Nobel Prize for Literature at 50 to 1 — better than Cormac McCarthy, Salman Rushdie and Elena Ferrante.” https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/magazine/gerald-murnane-next-nobel-laureate-literature-australia.html

Tutte le novità di Pages 7.0 - la mia recensione per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/tutte-le-novita-di-pages-7-0/

Del social jet lag ancora non avevo sentito parlare... Money quote: “Their findings, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, show that students whose circadian rhythms were out of sync with their class schedules – say, night owls taking early morning courses – received lower grades due to “social jet lag,” a condition in which peak alertness times are at odds with work, school or other demands.” http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/03/29/social-jetlag/

Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di tecnologia, cioè di informatica? Dodici cose per cui vale davvero l”hashtag #sapevato Money quote: “Technology isn’t an industry, it’s a method of transforming the culture and economics of existing systems and institutions” https://medium.com/humane-tech/12-things-everyone-should-understand-about-tech-d158f5a26411

Le librerie indipendenti più famose del mondo. Ne conosco e ne ho visitate fin troppe, animé. Money quote: “Imagine a New York City in which 48 bookstores were happily (and, one presumes, profitably) crammed into a five-block stretch of what was then Fourth Avenue, a stretch known as “Book Row.” “ https://lithub.com/the-10-most-famous-bookstores-in-the-world/

Il primo gennaio dell’anno prossimo negli Usa comincia la rivoluzione: escono dal copyright e vanno nel pubblico dominio una tonnellata di libri musica e film. In questo articolo anche una buona ricapitolazione della storia del diritto di riproduzione in America (tldr: una cosa incivile). Money quote: “This coming January, Charlie Chaplin’s film The Pilgrim and Cecil B. DeMille’s The 10 Commandments will slip the shackles of ownership, allowing any individual or company to release them freely, mash them up with other work, or sell them with no restriction. This will be true also for some compositions by Bela Bartok, Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay, Winston Churchill’s The World Crisis, Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Pigeons, e.e. cummings’s Tulips and Chimneys, Noël Coward’s London Calling! musical, Edith Wharton’s A Son at the Front, many stories by P.G. Wodehouse, and hosts upon hosts of forgotten works, according to research by the Duke University School of Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain” https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/557420

Essere scrittori oggi. Money quote: “You need to read voraciously, be able to view your manuscript objectively enough to edit it, work on your author brand, build your mailing list, run a blog/website, maintain a social media presence, guest post, and so much more. All of these things take time, and they don’t offer direct rewards.” https://writingcooperative.com/stop-romanticizing-your-writing-career-8d1de425a54b

La recensione della tastiera Dodocool per iPad Pro 10.5 - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/la-recensione-della-tastiera-dodocool-per-ipad-pro-10-5/

Negli Stati Uniti il matrimonio, istituzione ovunque in crisi, rinasce grazie alle unioni dello stesso sesso. E diventa una dichiarazione politica. Money quote: “But there is one statistical tidbit that flies in the face of this conventional wisdom: A clear majority of same-sex couples who are living together are now married” https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/03/incredible-everlasting-institution-marriage/555320/

Un modo un po’ complicato ma piacevole per dire che le persone non sono tutte uguali. Money quote: “Five years after the call from England, I was living with my boyfriend and our lover, an Australian grad student who spent three months of the year with us — her summer, our winter. After three years together, we tried to figure out a way to live together permanently, to raise children together. But distance and national borders defeated us; we loved each other, but not quite enough.” https://medium.com/s/unrulybodies/the-body-my-immigrant-parents-may-never-understand-c6aea51091ab

Intricata come un giallo, appassionante come un’inchiesta - ed in effetti questo è: un’inchiesta storica - la ricerca della libreria progettata da Frank Lloyd Wright è tutta da leggere. E si fa leggere. Buona per il fine settimana. Money quote: “When he took on the project in 1906, Wright was thirty-nine years old and already well-known among Chicago’s elite, but he was not a celebrity by any means. He was also in the middle of a secret affair that would end his marriage. “Those years between 1904 and 1909 were to be pivotal in Wright’s life,” Meryle Secrest writes in Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography. Before that period, Wright was a Midwestern family man who built lavish suburban homes. Afterward, he abandoned his family (including six children) in Oak Park and fled to Europe with his mistress (who was also his neighbor’s wife). When he returned to the States a few months later, he became an international figure who tackled grand public projects from Manhattan to Tokyo.” https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/22/when-frank-lloyd-wright-designed-a-bookstore/

Zitti zitti i quattro grandi diventano infrastrutture private che si sostituiscono ai servizi universali dei paesi. Ad esempio Google Plus con un nuovo sistema di indicazione universale degli indirizzi, valido anche per aree remote e mai codificate. Money quote: “Though more consistent addressing systems—especially in rural regions—are likely a good thing in other ways as well, there are reasons for caution here. Google’s blog post notes, “all that’s needed [to use the codes] is Google Maps on a smartphone.” For now, at least, this means those using the system are at least partially shackled to Google’s own app infrastructure. While that’s likely fine for ordinary civilian uses of the system, it may limit other applications.” https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/google-plus-codes-help-map-remote-locations.html

È morto Isao Takahata, co-fondatore dello Studio Ghibli e regista di "Una tomba per le lucciole". http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/04/morto-isao-takahata-studio-ghibli/

Festeggiamenti per i 50 anni di "2001 Odissea nello spazio". La proiezione in 70mm da una nuova copia rischia di essere l'avvenimento cinematografico del decennio. Mannaggia che non ci sono proiezioni previste in Europa/Italia. La proiezione di Cannes - e quindi la qualità della nuova copia - è garantita da Christopher Nolan. Money quote: "Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Warner Bros. Pictures will debut an ‘unrestored’ 70mm print of the director’s groundbreaking science fiction epic at the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival. Widely considered among the greatest films of the 20th century, 2001: A Space Odyssey will return to select U.S. theatres in 70mm beginning May 18, 2018. Set for Saturday, May 12, the world premiere will be held during the Cannes Classics section of the Festival, featuring an introduction by award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan. The screening will also be attended by members of Stanley Kubrick’s family, including his daughter, Katharina Kubrick, and longstanding producing partner and brother-in-law, Jan Harlan"

Se qualcuno è curioso di sapere come vive un freelance (o, nel mio caso, come si senta ma non sia mai riuscito a trovare le parole per esprimerlo) Liana Finck, cartoonist per il New Yorker, l’ha centrata in pieno. Money quote: “I’m a wandering cubicle” https://medium.com/@lianafinck/the-daily-rituals-of-a-new-yorker-cartoonist-freelance-edition-17ddea7470ae

E non poteva mancare però anche Milagros Caturla, la Vivian Maier catalana. Secondo me, guardando le foto che non sono poi questa cosa stratosferica, ci sono anche delle speculazioni dietro. Perché poi fanno le mostre, i libri e soprattutto le stampe numerate. Money quote: “Numerosi ricercatori e amanti della fotografia e dei misteri si sono attivati per cercare di individuare l’autore delle foto scoprendo che si tratta di una donna, di nome Milagros Caturla (1920-2008), che non ha mai esercitato l’arte della fotografia. La sua storia è stata paragonata a quella di Vivian Maier e la donna è stata così rinominata la “Vivian Maier catalana“. Anche lei, come la famosa pioniera franco–americana della street photography, non aveva distintivo ma possedeva di certo una grande creatività e passione per la sua città e per l’obbiettivo fotografico. Le immagini risalgono circa al 1960, dichiara Begoña Fernández.” https://barbarapicci.com/2017/05/26/milagros-caturla/

Sarà lei la prossima Vivian Maier? Così farebbe tornare di moda la Leica a vite... Money quote: “Masha Ivashintsova was born in Russia, in 1942. At 18 she started taking photographs, and became involved the underground arts movement in St. Petersburg, then known as Leningrad. She shot prolifically on the streets of the city, with either her Leica IIIc or Rolleiflex. But she never showed her work to anyone—some of it she didn’t even develop. When she died, in 2000, she left 30,000 photographs—in the form of negatives and undeveloped film—in a box, where they remained, untouched, for 17 years” https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/secret-soviet-photos

“There are two major products that came from Berkeley: LSD and Unix. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” – Jeremy S. Anderson. #citazioni