Jane Wodening, Experimental Film Star and Intrepid Writer, Dies at 87 | The New York Times
Zach Barocas, Diasporist Diarist
I have had to learn the simplest things
last. Which made for difficulties.
— Charles Olson
What is it to know
and not remember,
to attend to
holy places?
To attend to
holy places is
what it is to know
and not remember.

Michael Stipe Is Writing His Next Act. Slowly. | The New York Times
How do you reinvent yourself after being a global superstar? The former R.E.M. frontman is still figuring that out.
How “The Kids of Rutherford County” Sets Investigative Reporting to Music | ProPublica
Experimentation was key in creating the score for our four-part narrative podcast series, produced in collaboration with Serial.

Funny you Should Ask | Anne Carson for The New Yorker
It occurs to me I’ve spent too much of my life staring at someone else’s sentences
in a rebar dawn, measuring my insomnia against their
snap-brim
thoughts.
The Enduring Strangeness of Nicolas Cage | The New Yorker
As an artist, he is a great maximalist iconoclast, the Sun Ra of American acting.