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Thursday, July 29, 2010

7 unproduced screenplays by famous intellectuals

From McSweeney's via Salon

The names are fascinating enough, but I was most intrigued by Adorno--only to discover his script was the least interesting.

Posted by The Ephebe at 5:22 AM

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To Read

In Defence of Dogs
Reading List for the Egypt Crisis
Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century, Marjorie Perloff
Paul McDonough: New York Photographs 1968–1978
The Girls of Murder City, Douglas Perry
One Day, David Nicholls
The Scholar and the Caliph
Down the Garden Path, Beverley Nichols
The Science of Kissing, Sheril Kirshenbaum
Allure, Diana Vreeland
Running the Books, Avi Steinberg
The Memory Chalet, Tony Judt
Finishing the Hat, Vol 1, Stephen Sondheim
The Man Who Recorded the World: a Biography of Alan Lomax, John Szwed
Pulse, Julian Barnes
Cry Liberty, Peter Charles Hoffer
American Uprising, Daniel Rasmussen
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece, Eric Siblin
Tonight at Noon, Sue Mingus
This Is Music: A Guide to the Pleasures of Listening, David Randolph
Just Kids, Patti Smith
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, Eric Foner
Letter to D, Andre Gorz
Trajet d'une amoureuse econduite, Anne Brochet
Thank Heaven, Leslie Caron
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet, Jennifer Homans
Coco Chanel, Justine Picardie
Anthill, E.O. Wilson
The Best of Friends, Mariana Pasternak
The Russian Version, Elena Fanailova
The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece, Carola Hicks
Voices of Russian Literature, Sally Laird
I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of An Angry Arab Woman, Joumana Haddad
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
Even Silence has an End, Ingrid Betancourt
Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation, Gérard Genette
The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and “Les Misérables," Mario Vargas Llosa
Late Idyll, Reinhold Brinkmann

To Recite

The Black Unicorn
Arts & Sciences
Still to Mow
Figure Studies
Decreation
Loving a Woman in Two Worlds
Strong Is Your Hold
On the Bus with Rosa Parks
The Best American Poetry [2008]
Sonnets to Orpheus
Letters to a Stranger
Sean Haldane
Szymborska's New & Collected
Siedel's Collected
Fiona Sampson
Nox
Maureen Mclane

To Hear

Jesca Hoop
Spanische Liebeslieder
Hanni El Khatib
Emily Osment
Dunes
Fences
Ariana Delawari (more)
W & Whale
Yasmin
Sam Philips
Sia ("Day Too Soon")
Sleeper
Fresh Millions
Houses
Bikini
Alison Balsom
Mykola Suk
Yuja Wang
Allison Miller

To Watch

Miranda July
White Material
Love & Other Drugs
One Day
The Time That Remains
The Eyes of Laura Mars
The Other Woman
Jazz Baroness
Anita O'Day, Life of a Jazz Singer
Garbo the Spy
Copacabana
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Jane Eyre (2010)
Garden of Eden
Another Year
Tron: Legacy
The Town
Queen to Play
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
The Tempest
Arrested Development
Modern Family
Thekla Reuten
Certified Copy
For Neda
Black Swan
Sandrine Bonnaire
Anne Brochet

To Write

The Indispensable

Dark Familiars

Monsieur Faber
Gigi Phillips
Cinderella
Spiderman
Larry David
Liz Lemon
George O'Malley
Ralph Ellison
Horatio
Lucy Honeychurch
Razumov
Katharine Hepburn
Charlotte Lucas
Hector Berlioz
Hyacinth Robinson
Anna Karenina
Orsino
Hotspur
Duke Ellington
Judith Traherne
Voltaire
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cecil Vyse
Anne Elliot
Kathy H

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