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Crime Time

dances_with_sneetches — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:28:03 -0800

The 2009 anthology of The Best American Crime Reporting is out. Each year this series collects examples of exceptional and diverse true crime journalism. Many of the entries are available in their online magazines. Starting with "Dan P. Lee, Body Snatchers - Philadelphia magazine" (part of the story previously discussed here), a ghoulish tale of stolen corpses and the market behind him. Continuing with the sad life of a spree killer: Mark Boal, Everyone Will Remember Me as Some Sort of Monster - Rolling Stone A pathological spree of consumerism is recounted in Sabrina Rubin Erdely's, The Fabulous Fraudulent Life of Jocelyn and Ed - Rolling Stone. A surgeon recalls The Day Kennedy Died - Michael J. Mooney, D Magazine. Charles Bowden writes about drug wars in Mexico's Red Days - GQ magazine A hate crime or not a hate crime? R. Scott Moxley, Hate and Death - OC Weekly. A hedge fund trader is found floating face down in his swimming pool in Stephen Rodrick, Dead Man's Float - New York magazine. Hanna Rosin's, American Murder Mystery previously discussed here - The Atlantic. Not generally available, but in The New Yorker archives for subscribers, Calvin Trillin, The Color of Blood - The New Yorker John Colapinto, Stop, Thief! - The New Yorker David Grann, True Crime - New Yorker (recommended) Alec Wilkinson, Non-Lethal Force - The New Yorker And finally, only available in the book: Matt McAllester, Tribal Wars - Details Mark Arax, The Zankou Chicken Murders - Los Angeles magazine L. Jon Wertheim, Breaking the Bank - Sports Illustrated Enjoy.

The Anthology, notated.

1f2frfbf — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:15:25 -0800

"With this blog, I want to use the Folkways Anthology as a roadmap to explore American folk music and maybe other countries traditions along the way. I’ll use texts, images, music and videos gathered from my personal collection and from the net to make this work-in-progress enjoyable and educational the best I can." (via)

Search me. Ezra liked foreign titles.

whir — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:18:55 -0800

Des Imagistes is an online version of Ezra Pound's influential 1914 anthology of Imagist poetry, which includes work by Pound, James Joyce, H. D., and William Carlos Williams. The anthology was placed online, apparently for the first time, by students at MIT. For those who prefer the look and feel of an old book, it is also available in convenient 21mb PDF format. via Grand Text Auto. The quote in this post's title is from an amusing anecdote related on the anthology's wikipedia page.

Harry Everett Smith

MetaMonkey — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:42:32 -0800

Harry Everett Smith was a, "20th-century Renaissance man, working as an abstract film-maker, painter, musicologist, anthropologist, theoretician, self-mythologizer and connoisseur of arcana". His Anthology of American Folk Music was hugely influential on American music, while his alchemical, synæsthetic films were to have a similar impact on experimental film and animation. Enjoy his mesmerising and astonishing "Early Abstractions" on Youtube [part 1 or 4], hear Harry lecture, or listen to some tracks from The Anthology.

Rhapsody on the Blue

Gyan — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:53:10 -0800

The Official George & Ira Gershwin Web Site
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Folklore and Mythology

thomas j wise — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 19:21:09 -0800

Folklore and Mythology E-Texts A multicultural collection classified according to types and variants. See also the SurLaLune Fairy Tales Pages (portal with annotated tales, tons of illustrations), Folk and Fairytales From Around the World (not updated since 1997, unfortunately), Hans Christian Andersen (tales and illustrations, plus additional links), Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers (German and English, with some illustrations), the Grimm Index Page (a complete set), Red Riding Hood: A Multimedia Edition (exactly what it sounds like; those with sensitive eyes should be warned that the page is, well, red), and Tracey Callison's extensive Sources for the Analysis and Interpretation of Folk and Fairy Tales (scholarly bibliographies).

Newly Digital

jeremias — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 10:04:13 -0800

Newly Digital is an electronic anthology of sorts. Due to the technological advancement of these things we call "computers", it's a subject ripe for nostalgia. As seen here by bloggers writing about their first . . .

sheauga — Sun, 24 Mar 2002 10:26:24 -0800

Where were you during Vietnam?
Emi's Online Anti-War Anthology
"The only way to uncover the real truth about the antiwar movement is for hundreds (or thousands) of people to come forward and contribute their recollections. That is why history needs your stories. Please submit them. I don't care how insignificant you think your story may be. Everybody's story is important. All relevant stories will be accepted. I will be happy to work with anyone who wants to prepare one."

arco — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 07:18:15 -0800

So this year's Best American Poetry book is out, which means it's time once again for me to feel (English-major) guilt about not enjoying, or even "getting," more contemporary poetry. It looks like I'm not the only one, though, who wonders, "Does anybody like these poems?" Poet Joan Houlihan likens this collection to a "suburban poetry mall." (via Arts & Letters Daily)