Christopher Stott
“Inner Conflicts”
24” x 48” Oil on canvas, 2012
Gallery
Fenway ’56
August 7, 1956. 68 cents + 7 cents tax. Via Eephus League.
The original death of publishing
New York, 1908
The Manhattan bridge under construction, seen from Washington Street, June 5, 1908. The bridge wouldn’t open for another 18 months and wouldn’t be completed for another four years. More newly released historical photos of New York here.
Graham Greene by Yousuf Karsh
Graham Greene, 1964. Portrait by Yousuf Karsh.
Imtiaz Dharker: Carving
“Carving”
Others can carve out
their space
in tombs and pyramids.
Our time cannot be trapped
in cages.
Nor hope, nor laughter.
We let the moment rise
like birds and planes and angels
to the sky.
Eternity is this.
Your breath on the window pane,
living walls with shining eyes.
The surprise of spires,
uncompromising verticals. Knowing
we have been spared
to lift our faces up
for one more day,
into one more sunrise.
— by Imtiaz Dharker
Noticed this poem on the London Tube last week, on one of the “Poems on the Underground” posters.
From: Imtiaz Dharker, The Terrorist at My Table (Bloodaxe Books, 2006).
Marilyn
The official poster for the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
Our golden age of reading
Alexis Madrigal: “our collective memory of the past is astoundingly inaccurate. Not only has the number of people reading not declined precipitously, it’s actually gone up since the perceived golden age of American letters.”