Things to share this weekend (10/26/24)

photographer Robert Frank, pulp fiction, a poem I liked + reading notes

I was laid off last week so I had some extra time on my hands…¹

Cape Cod by Robert Frank, 1959

…and I went to the Museum of Modern Art and became a member and then ate a gyro on the street after seeing…

1. Robert Frank Photography Exhibit (Museum of Modern Art)

• At the MoMa, there’s a great exhibit on the photographer Robert Frank, whom I hadn’t heard of before, but he was around in the 50s, 60s, 70s and took photos of a lot of artistic celebrities, like Beat writers and James Baldwin and Norman Mailer and early Rolling Stones.

• He was also a chronicler of America, much like Walker Evans in years past.

• Here’s a full selection of his works at MoMa.

And it’s always nice to ride the subway a few stops and see Picassos and Van Goghs and Matisses.

I skipped by the masses taking photos of Starry Night, but I did snap photos of a few others, perhaps I’ll share some of those soon.

2. Pulp Fiction is 30 years old (Variety)

• Great oral history of 20+ people involved with the making of the film.

• I didn’t have a Pulp Fiction poster in my dorm room, and I’ve seen the film maybe 2x. But I do appreciate directors with specific visions and Tarantino is/was that.

3. Can the media survive? (NY Mag)

• A big piece about the state of news, and I read this in print. On the subway, the way it was meant to be.

4. A Scene from a Movie Playing in the Background of Another Movie (Had Magazine)

• This is a poem, a good one!

5. A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending (New Yorker)

• Good profile on a (controversial) rare book dealer and I loved this line:

• A dealer named Rick Gekoski told me, “Glenn saw, in a way that few of the rest of us did, that if you want to make serious money you need to spend ninety-five per cent of your time with the five per cent of your clients who will provide ninety-five per cent of your income.”

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Notes on reading/watching:

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihira

  • Just getting to the super sad parts

  • Ended up buying a used copy b/c it’s very long

• Dynamics of Spiritual Life by Richard Lovelace

  • Theology + history of Christian revivals

• (Wanted to read) The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

  • Heard good things, but A Little Life is taking up a lot of my time)

Keep going-

Josh Spilker

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