Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The November Cultural Roundup

In 1980 I started a Cultural Journal where I recorded the films I had seen, the books I read, etc ... in an old diary style blank book that I found in Chinatown because I'm ... anal, I guess, and feel the need to categorize everything incessantly. The other day I was wondering why I am still recording this information on paper (much as I love paper)? So here we are ... the inaugural post on a cultural round up of the month's activities. 

Books
T.S. Eliot: Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot
The Captain's Death Bed by Virginia Woolf
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman

Films
Carlos (France, 2010) directed by Olivier Assayas, 165 minutes

Readings
Interview of Joan Didion by Margaret MacMillan at the International Festival of Authors, Harbourfront
Karen Mulhallen at the Draft 7.2 Reading Series, Only Cafe

Art Exhibits
"Struggling Cities from Japanese Urban Projects in the 1960s" exhibit at the Japan Foundation

4 comments:

5Rings said...

didn't you read the measure of a man in November? just wondering...

Michelle said...

I read it in October Mr. 5Rings!

Christine said...

Um, wow! You get a lot done.

Michelle said...

Well, I don't have much of a life C!