Linda Levitt
Contributor at PopMatters
Contributor at Spectrum Culture
Reading, thinking, talking and writing. Communication PhD, prof, and poet in Texas.
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3 days ago |
spectrumculture.com | Linda Levitt
As an object, What Art Does takes on its own premise. About the size of an average smartphone with a simple, bright pink-and-white cover, the book grabs the eye. Part of the message that Brian Eno and Bette A. (Adriaanse) impart is that art helps us figure out what we like and what we feel. The authors also want us to see the art that not only surrounds us, but that we ourselves create art constantly.
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1 month ago |
spectrumculture.com | Linda Levitt
Just as author Sarah Perry really embarks on her curious study of culture through the lens of sweets, surprisingly embarks on a lengthy narrative about the vaginal yeast infection she suffered through after the publication of her first book. It’s an unsettling way to reference Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search, a serious and visceral work about her mother’s murder, which occurred when Perry was 12.
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2 months ago |
spectrumculture.com | Linda Levitt
In her thoughtful engagement with Henri Bergson’s life and career, Emily Herring sets out to do what she argues Bergson, himself, accomplished: bring philosophy to the people. Bergson, of course, brought his own philosophical perspectives to audiences of hundreds gathered in lecture halls. Herring continues his project, aspiring to show how Bergson’s philosophy was not only accessible and relevant at the turn of the twentieth century but could be a useful remedy today.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
spectrumculture.com | Linda Levitt
Joan Didion: doyenne of late 20th century writing. More people want to emulate her than critique her. But how to describe Eve Babitz? She was not a groupie, and she was not a starlet. She was a presence, a Hollywood girl from a Hollywood family who ran in some wild circles. Vanity Fair writes that Babitz considered herself a “groupie-adventuress,” although she was also a writer and visual artist.
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Oct 15, 2024 |
spectrumculture.com | Linda Levitt
Joanna Nadin begins The Future of the Self with an important assertion: she is not a philosopher. Actually, she is a novelist, but one whose fiction often asks questions of how (and who) we should be.
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