Disambiguations™ for June 2, 2011
Some catch-up...
I. Rachel Aviv made her amazing New Yorker (!) debut last week with "God Knows Where I Am," about a psychiatric patient who refused treatment, moved into the attic of an abandoned house, and subsisted on apples while keeping an extensive diary. Such a good piece. You need to subscribe to read it (though the abstract is oddly compelling).*
II. Hans Keilson, who found late-career American literary success last year (at the age of 101), has passed away. Damion Searls, who translated Keilson's Comedy in a Minor Key, wrote this appreciation/profile of him last year for The Believer, which you can read now in full online.
III. Speaking of The Believer—the June issue is out! Robert Ito kicks it off with a fascinating piece on Josiah Flynt Willard—hobo, writer, turncoat. Charity Vogel finds the godfather of the game show; Hillary Chute (!) interviews Joe Sacco, the war reporter/graphic narrativist; Brandon Stosuy listens to Destroyer's Kaputt; the usual columns including the new Daniel Handler one; and much more...
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*A side effect of reading Rachel's piece was wanting more, which meant reading some of the rest of the magazine. Great magazine! I liked the profile of Cory Arcangel—excellent. As if a quote from Ed Halter wasn't enough, it also mentions that he was a star lacrosse player at my alma mater. Then I started reading the açai berry piece and a review of a bio of Rabindranath Tagore. But then I had to leave the magazine (it was my sister's).
Labels: Damion Searls, Hans Keilson, Hillary Chute, I am Rachel Aviv's publicist, Joe Sacco, Robert Ito, The Believer
posted by Ed Park @ 10:14 AM
2 Comments:
I loved that Rachel Aviv story. It's still haunting me. (And it's OK that you didn't finish the acai article -- it was by John Colapinto, so you KNOW it was genius.)
I second the recommendation of Rachel Aviv's article. I read it, then immediately handed it to my mother, who just retired from being a social worker helping people with mental illnesses in their day-to-day doings. It's a heartbreaking article, and it does a great job of showing how pendulum swings in our understanding of mental illness effect people caught up in it.
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