Published on May 17th, 2007 by Malachi
5/17/07, 01:07 AM
By now I have been working on my new “Herman Gebler” book for almost two years, which is at least twice as long as I had anticipated when I started it. Herman Gebler was a musician –apparently an accomplished violinist– with the Frankfurt Conservatory orchestra, who fled Nazi Germany in 1940 or thereabouts, [...]
Published on May 14th, 2007 by Malachi
5/14/07, 01:55 PM
The artist Alice Neel (1900-1985) had a long, difficult, varied career as a really wonderful portrait painter –mostly in and around New York City. She looked into the souls of her sitters, saw the resident conflicts and contradictions that elude most observers –and, clearly, many of the sitters themselves– and served them up [...]
Published on May 6th, 2007 by Malachi
Having seen the recent Bill Moyers piece about the White House’s “Selling of The War” –or was it the Press’s “Buying of the War”(I can’t quite remember)– and our acquiescent unenquiring press’s essential softball relationship with the White House; and having myself marvelled for several years at the press’s unquestioning bemusement, their Putty-fication at, or [...]
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