James Frey's Blog, page 52

“I did it for the attention.”

from The Atlantic The Great Fracturing of American Attention Why resisting distraction is one of the foundational challenges of this moment By Megan Garber Last month, as Delta Flight 1580 made its way from Utah to Oregon, Michael Demarre approached one of the plane’s emergency-exit doors. He removed the door’s plastic covering, a federal report of […]

Hot Basquiat

from The Wall Street Journal Basquiat Is Hotter Than Warhol—and Now a Billionaire Wants to Sell a 1982 Work for $70 Million Collector Yusaku Maezawa is auctioning off his wall-size Basquiat, featuring a devilish figure, at Phillips this spring By Kelly Crow A billionaire who recently rocketed to the International Space Station said he is sending one of […]

Autopocalypse

from Study Finds Death by robots? Study finds automation is ruining people’s lives — and raising mortality rates! by Jocelyn Solis-Moreira NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Death by robots might seem like an unusual cause of death, but as robots replace people on factory floors, there has been a rise of suicides and drug overdoses — […]

All Hands On Deck

from PC Magazine Steam Deck Hands On: Valve Successfully Frees PC Gaming From the Desktop Available today, the Steam Deck trades raw power for the impressive ability to make your PC gaming library portable. By Jordan Minor As someone who flew across the country to pick up a Steam Machine, only for Valve’s first attempt at […]

Cloudocracy

from Project Syndicate Our New Cloud-Based Ruling Class by YANIS VAROUFAKIS Capital is everywhere, yet capitalism is on the wane. In an era when the owners of a new form of “command capital” have gained exorbitant power over everyone else, including traditional capitalists, this is no contradiction. ATHENS – Once upon a time, capital goods […]

Salumeria

from InsideHook A Look Inside the Curing Room at Chicago’s Lardon, Quite Possibly America’s Finest Salumeria Chef Chris Thompson breaks down the process behind his immaculate cured meats BY EMILY MONACO Vegetarians, you may want to look away It’s 33 degrees today in Chicago — a good temperature for butchering, according to Lardon chef Chris Thompson, but not […]

Three Pietas

from France 24 Michelangelo’s three ‘pietas’ united in historic first Florence (Italy) (AFP) – It is admired the world over as an exquisite depiction of maternal grief. But Michelangelo’s “Pieta” has overshadowed two other moving sculptures on the same subject by the Renaissance giant. That is why Florence’s Opera del Duomo museum in Italy is putting […]

The Mouth Of The South

from The Optionist Q&A: Ted Turner Biographer Porter Bibb All the drama around CNN and Jeff Zucker got me thinking about Ted Turner. I called up Porter Bibb, who wrote the best-selling 1993 biography of CNN founder Ted Turner, Ted Turner: It Ain’t As Easy as It Looks. Bibb told me about how he came to […]

Nandi Bushnell

Trigger Art

from sp!ked Great art is supposed to be ‘triggering’ The rise of trigger warnings is a threat to artistic freedom. by Ella Whelan What ‘triggers’ us in art is subjective. At the opening night of JM Synge’s Playboy of the Western World in Dublin in 1907, audience members were triggered into rioting, including throwing projectiles at the […]