Category: Books

Spiegelman writes about Sept 11 – that’s got to be interesting

Through random wandering via paths of links now forgotten, I stumbled across a wondrous fact I had somehow missed last fall: Art Spiegelman has written about his experiences living in Manhattan during the horrors of September 11, 2001, in a book entitled In the shadow of no towers. Spiegelman’s Maus is still one of the most powerful stories I’ve ever read, and this new one is rushing off to my wish list as we speak. No idea if it’s good, but my money says that it’s damned interesting.

Cover of _In the shadow of no towers_

BTW, I started linking to BookSense, which I discovered via Cradle to cradle, which is another winner.

This is my 100th post – Woot!

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Charles “Natty Dread” Darwin

In what has to be one of the more unusual concepts for a concept album, the Genomic Dub Collective in Birmingham (UK) is using the text of Darwin’s The origin of species as lyrics in their reggae inspired drum and bass. They apparently premiered this last Friday as the closing event on Darwin Day at the University of Birmingham (where we spent a wonderful year on sabbatical 4.5 years ago). I wish I could have been there.

To quote Professor Pallen (one of the creators) from this article:

When I was thinking about this year’s celebrations, I was very keen not to just play to the creationist versus evolutionist thing.

I wanted to make it very broad.

Both Charles Darwin and his grandfather Erasmus were profoundly affected by the slavery they witnessed in places like Brazil and wrote poetry speaking out against it. I invited the poet Benjamin Zephaniah to read the poems last year and that gave me the idea to do something different.

Kudos to WeatherGirl for pointing this out to me.

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