Some Interests and Delights
Literature | Film | Musical Theater | Photography | History | TV | Places | Music | Art and Architecture | Writing and Editing | Libraries | Good Sites
- Literature
- Richard Yates
- Yates (died 1992) is the United States' greatest unrecognized writer. Critics have written little about him, and there is hardly anything on the Web. Here is an appreciation and reminiscence I wrote to Chet Farmer as a reply to the appreciation of Yates on his now-defunct Web site. I am pleased to list Clark Griffin's newly launched site about Yates, which aspires to completeness. Visit it.
- Jorge Luis Borges
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The Garden of Forking Paths
Jorge Luis Borges Center
Borges Fetishization
- Shakespeare
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SHAKSPER -- The Electronic Shakespeare Conference -- is a lively discussion group edited/moderated by Hardy Cook, an associate professor of English at Bowie State University. Digests are frequent. To subscribe, send a message to LISTSERV@ws.BowieState.edu. In the body of the message, write "SUB SHAKSPER yourfirstname yourlast name."
Entrance to the Shakespeare Web
Complete Works
The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble, comprising undergraduate and graduate students at one of the world's greatest scientific universities, performs some of the best Shakespeare in the Boston area.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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His briefcase. A startling image, best viewed on a full screen, with toolbar and directory buttons turned off. What's inside?
- The Poetry Porch
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The Poetry Porch is a Web page for poets designed and edited by Joyce Wilson.
- Fredric Brown
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Lynköping Science Fiction Archive
- Film
- Self-Referential Film
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Film about film, and so on. Barbara Bernstein moderates the Self-Referential Film mailing list, which is very active and never fails to be interesting. You can read the archives of all the messages posted as well as subscribe from her Web site.
- Film Reference
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Internet Movie Database -- the greatest resource.
- Musical Theater
- Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim Stage
- Musicals Newsgroup/Mailing List
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The Musicals newsgroup is very high volume, very informative, and very contentious. There is always some sort of battle going on between the admirers of Stephen Sondheim and those of Andrew Lloyd Webber. It can also be gotten through a mailing list: Send your subscription request to musicals-request@world.std.com. In the body of the message, write "subscribe musicals your E-mail address"
- Photography
- The Farm Security Administration
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The FSA was where the great American photographers of the 1930s and 1940s worked.
- William Klein
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William Klein has been living in France for decades. When lists of great American photographers are drawn up, his name is usually missing.
- Elsa Dorfman
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Elsa is one of the finest portrait photographers. She works with a large-format Polaroid camera. When you visit her Web site, be sure to look at the long-out-of-print Elsa's House Book.
- Photographic Resource Center
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The PRC is the premier resource for photography in the Boston area.
- History
- Medieval
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Labyrinth.
Camelot
- American Civil War
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The United States Civil War Center -- more than 1,000 links.
- The Holocaust
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The Nizkor Project.
- TV
- Dennis Potter
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Bhob Stewart has compiled a list, as complete as possible, of the works of this great, recently deceased British novelist, playwright, and pioneer TV writer.
- Hill Street Blues
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Episode guide.
- thirtysomething
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Episode guide, cast, etc..
- Cop Rock
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The episode guide for this wonderful, underappreciated show.
- My So-Called Life
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Web site for this prematurely cancelled series. Nineteen episodes, all gems.
Another Web site for MSCL.
- Cracker
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The episode guide for this gripping, well-written, well-acted British mystery series..
- Places
- Cambridge, Mass.
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Cambridge -- where I live.
- Plattsburgh, N.Y.
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Plattsburgh -- where I go regularly (actually, to Beekmantown, right outside it).
- Music
- Classical.Net
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This growing musical resource is stunning and compendious.
- J.S. Bach
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An attractive, well-organized Web site on the immortal elder Bach.
- Erik Satie
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A Web site devoted to the marvelous, eccentric French composer.
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk Society.
- Soviet Music
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Shostakovich, Prokofiev, et al.
- Glenn Gould
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One of several Web sites devoted to this great pianist. Had he not died prematurely, Gould would surely have been at home on the Web; he would have been one of the great Internet virtuosos.
- Art and Architecture
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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The Frank Lloyd Wright Source Page.
- Art Deco
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Art Deco Napier -- a totally Art Deco city in New Zealand.
- The Louvre
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Treasures of the Louvre .
- On-Line Masterpieces
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The WebMuseum.
- George Tooker
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"The Waiting Room." Make sure you click on the image to get one that fills your screen.
- Writing and Editing
- Copyediting Mailing List
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This lively, high-volume list has shop talk, cameraderie, humor, trivia, and major questions of grammar, style, and usage. To subscribe, send a message to listproc@cornell.edu. In the body of the message, write "subscribe copyediting-l Ðyourfirstname yourlast nameð."
Read the copyediting mailing list's FAQ.
- Libraries
- The Metro Boston Library Network
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This telnet site allows you to search the network that includes the Boston, Cambridge, Lexington, Brookline, and Newton public libraries. I spend a good deal of my time at the Boston and Cambridge libraries. The Cambridge main library is desperately in need of expansion and modernization.
- Lenin on Public Libraries
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In this little-known essay, the Russian revolutionary praises New York City's public library system.
- Good Sites
- Bill Blinn
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A fellow editor. Bill's Web site has some very sensible advice on making a home page.
- Ken Kronenberg
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Ken is a writer, editor, and German translator. His Web site has some very moving material about the Holocaust.
- Freedomland
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A touching remembrance of Freedomland, the forgotten early theme park in the Bronx, New York. Seen from above -- from an airplane or from the back of a bird -- it looked like a map of the United States.
- Virtual Melanin
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A very active Web site from the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, New York. A real community effort.
- 1939-1949 World's Fair
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An attractive site devoted to the great New York World's Fair of 1939-1940 -- a utopian vision in one of humanity's deadliest periods.
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