Following a previous entry of mine on rereading La Recherche du temps perdu, and thanks to herself_nyc, who found this via tumblr, I believe, here is the translation into English of an interview with the lovely Daniel Mendelsohn about Proust!

Also OpenCulture provides links to free art catalogues from the Metropolitan Museum. There are actually 397 out-of- ( Read more... )

In case you missed it here is a link to Daniel Mendelsohn's article on the anniversary of JFK's death, in which he draws connections between the Kennedy myth -- and media coverage of modern tragedies --, and Greek tragedy and epic ( Read more... )

Instead of working, I'm enjoying one of my Christmas presents, my DvD box set of Breaking Bad's season 4. Sue me!

By the way, Dean Norris has been quite active on twitter and revealed that HE IS THE ONE WHO WIPES !

Also, I just have to share this interview with Daniel Mendelsohn. I love that man!!! I don't agree with everything he says but the ( Read more... )

Daniel Mendelsohn, with whom I fell in love when reading his The Lost a few years ago, is on twitter. It's really weird to follow on twitter a writer you love, but the twitter thing is weird, anyway,when it comes to "famous" people you have never interacted with.

I don't tweet myself a lot, even though I was drawn to twitter, at first, for its rule ( Read more... )

Daniel Mendelsohn has written a rather harsh critic (although it isn't a rant but a three page analysis) on Mad Men in the New York Reviews of Books. I don't agree with everything he said  - in my opinion the writing is more uneven than weak, and there are moments of great acting here and there (Vincent Kartheiser above all is really good)-,  but I ( Read more... )

No this entry was not prompted by a documentary about WWII GI's; it has nothing to do with movie stars and I am not particularly into those superheroes born in comics of which Americans are so fond either. Actually I guess it goes against a lot of clichés but my American heroes are writers.The more I read Daniel Mendelsohn and Richard Powers the ( Read more... )