Blues Train
Riding the Rails Through the Mississippi Delta
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Author Archive
Dr. Burns’ Visual Vigilance
Dr. Stanley Burns is an ophthalmologist who lives and works in a big townhouse on E. 38th St. He’s also a world-renowned collector of historical photographs. When I last visited him, back in the summer of 1991, these photos–roughly half a million of them then–were literally all over the house. Stacked on the floors, piled
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Three Weeks’ High-Button News
“Three Weeks is everything that doesn’t frustrate us about independent publishing,” Alexander Swartwout explains. “We like to spell correctly. We like to have our grammar straight. We like to be elegant.” Since it began last October, Three Weeks has been very quietly infiltrating New York City bookstores and coffee shops with a look as old-fashioned
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Richard Metzger’s Disinformation
Early in December of last year, Tivo’s program listings and some local newspapers around the country listed a show called Disinformation, to be aired late that Saturday night on the Sci-Fi Channel. Some readers would have recognized that this was the Disinformation people–disinfo.com, the books You Are Being Lied To and Everything You Know Is
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David Leslie, Impact Addict
For a guy going on 45, David Leslie is in great shape. He works out a lot, and trains regularly at Gleason’s. Which is just as well. Because this Thursday night he climbs into a boxing ring with Gerry Cooney for what he hopes will be a four-round exhibition match. It will be the main
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Jim Goad Is a Bad Man
Jim Goad calls. He’s in New York and wants to get together. I’m having a terrible week, and three, four nights in a row I screw things up. When we finally meet for lunch, I half-expect him to want to beat me. I mean, I’m bigger than he is, but he’s got the rep. And
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More from Jurassic Technology
Experience and Its Decay Lindgren’s always figured out how to translate Wilson’s eccentric vision to achieve that look of inevitability. She did his No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again, for example, a wonderful collection of letters to the astronomers at Mount Wilson Observatory 1915-1935, and his The Eye of the Needle, about
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A Fox, a Snake, a Goat and Fidel
I was in Miami’s Little Havana last week, living la vida cubana, when a curious press release from Cuba’s permanent mission to the UN was passed along to my office here in New York. Funny how things happen. Funny document, too. You may have seen something in the news back around April 22, when Castro
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From Boho to Soho
We all know that the bohemian neighborhood, where hipsters and artistes are ogled by the requisite busloads of bourgeois voyeurs, was not created when The New York Times discovered Bedford Ave. a couple of months ago. It didn’t start with the hipster colonization of the Lower East Side in the 90s, or in Soho in
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Tariq Ali: Islam Anti-Islam
Tariq Ali is editor of London’s New Left Review, a filmmaker and novelist, and has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics, including 1968 and After: Inside the Revolution (1978) and the 1987 Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties. He was prominently involved in 60s antiwar and radical politics;
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