Quick Links Friday | 11.22.2013
By Meaghan Ritchey Posted in Blog on November 22, 2013 0 Comments 1 min read
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Here’s a smattering of some of this week’s web ephemera that got our clicks.

Nathan Schneider on The new landscape of the religion blogosphere. 

A 35 minute watercolor-done paraphrase of Blade Runner

From the Paris Review interview with Dorothy Parker: “There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. ”

The “Phone Cone” and a New York Magazine article on gadget sickness

Alain deBotton believes that museums would be better places if curators acted more like therapists and less like educators. Read the New Yorker‘s Alain deBotton’s Healing Arts 

“The Clampersand”

R.R. Reno at First Things on “The Christian Intellectual”…Tell us what you think of this piece?

Ralph C. Wood reviews new books on Chesterton & Balthasar at Transpositions Blog

Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s famous essay Cezanne’s Doubt

Richard Burton reads Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem ‘The Leaden’ with incredible speed and accuracy.

From the Paris Review interview with James Fenton: “If you are going to do a poetry reading, write something you can put across to an audience. I could see it dawning on them that there was a payoff—people like to hear poems written with the idea of performance in mind.”

Russian literature and pastoral landscapes at The American Conservative

 

Today’s featured video is “Match” by Bryan McManus


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