Art Making and Information

An interview with Katy Waldman

Ladane Nasseri [LN]: You wrote in a piece this year “the never-ending-ness of such a practice—of all critical practice, done right—is occasionally paralyzing.” As a literary critic, do you have a methodology to review a book in particular one that has been assigned?  Katy Waldman [KW]: When a book is assigned ...
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Art Making and Information

Khizr & Ghazala Khan, Roger Ailes, and Juicing

Past Present Episode 46

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Khizr and Ghazala Khan’s appearance at the Democratic National Convention was only one among many speeches at both political conventions by parents who had lost their children. Neil argued that these speeches were effective because people felt sympathetic towards ...
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Khizr & Ghazala Khan, Roger Ailes, and Juicing