Coetzee shows up for Nobel. This reminds me--I forgot to blog about an article in this month's Chicago magazine. It's an email interview with Coetzee, although that might be stretching it a little. Anyway I can't get it online despite my subscription, but at the very end Coetzee says something about the U of C. It's a line about how every time another misfit intellectual graduates is a small victory, or something. At any rate, I found it very evocative of the U of C of my ideals, and perhaps of 10-15 years ago and before. It's still like that a little, but not as much.
In this article there is also a description of Jonathan Lear (you can read all about him in the archives of Jon's blog since he advised Jon) and Coetzee at breakfast the day after the Nobel announcement, neither bringing it up, those two closed intellectuals.

I think the Times headline "loose lips can sink people in a Pirandello Fishbowl" negates the need to read Ben Brantley's review of "Rigtht you Are".

SNL off the air in some cities and no one missed much. The idea that cities were worried Al Sharpton as SNL host broke the "equal time" rules is kind of funny. And the article just skewers little Jimmy Fallon (images of Ian McKellen flash through my head).
- posted by Heidi @ 10:47 AM