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TGIF: Have an audiovisual weekend
Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers an interview on Fresh Air about his latest film, Letters from Iwo Jima . (Discussion of the theme of the book starts about eight minutes in.) Thanks, Clint. Robert Appelbaum was interviewed on the BBC Radio program Thinking Allowed. Host Laurie Taylor played clips from a production of Shakespeare’s Twelth Night to introduce Appelbaum’s Aguecheek’s Beef, Belch’s Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns cookbooks , and culture.
Howard Rheingold pointed to a video stream of the Stanford Library symposium celebrating the legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog . Fred Turner and his book From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
Geneviève Zubrzycki appeared on the PBS NewsHour to comment on the resignation of Warsaw archbishop Stansilaw Wielgus after the revelation of his collaboration with the secret police during the Communist era in Poland. Zubrzycki is the author of The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland Tim Stewart is a bibliophile’s bibliophile. He collects a number of notable authors, but he rifles the stacks of Dallas-Fort Worth used bookstores to add to his “pride and joy,” his collection of first editions of The Chicago Manual of Style
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Clint Eastwood made our day by talking about Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney’s Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers during an interview on Fresh Air about his latest film, Letters from Iwo Jima. (Discussion of the theme of the book starts about eight minutes in.) Thanks, Clint.