Sort of continuing on from the writer/reader contract of a few weeks ago, my boiled brain oozes and steams to the social contract in life, in history, and in reading.

Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel (A Star Falls from Heaven), featuring the magnificent tenor voice of Joseph Schmidt, was made in 1934. Even though the quality of the restored film was jerky in places, and the sound typical of the time, The Bel Canto Society did their best ( Read more... )

Today's riff is about research vs. experience, where writers choose to blend contemporary with historical perspective, and Nabokov on this and on going beyond the mimetic ( Read more... )