Art and Edmund
January 26, 2008It never would have occurred to me to connect critic Edmund Wilson with jazz pianist Art Tatum, but now that I’ve read this article, the idea makes perfect sense.
STEVENHARTSITE
LIFE ON DIGITAL GRUB STREET
Pages
Archives
Categories
- Blue Mondays (39)
- Bob Dylan (32)
- Book vs. film (4)
- Great Lost Movies (1)
- Internet (2)
- Library of America contenders (3)
- music (47)
- My Favorite Books (2)
- My Favorite Movies (6)
- Passages (20)
- Reading Around (1)
- Scandinavianism (6)
- The Best Swordfight Movies of All Time (3)
- The Bugs Bunny Appreciation Society (4)
- The Reading Life (202)
- The Writing Life (94)
- Uncategorized (166)
- Well Versed (8)
BlogBuds
Curriculum Vitae
Drinking Around
Feed
Getting Medieval On Our Asses
- Ancrene Wiseass
- Anglo-Saxon Aloud
- Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry Project
- Beowulf Basics
- Beowulf in Cyberspace
- Beowulf Translations
- Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog
- Got Medieval
- Icelandic Lore
- Icelandic sagas
- King Alfred’s Grammar
- Modern Medieval
- News for Medievalists
- Old English in New York
- Quod She
- Studenda Mira
- Unlocked Wordhoard
His Bobness
Homes Away From Home
Listening Around
- Aaron Copland House
- Alex Ross
- Arts and Drama
- Collectors Music Reviews
- Damon Runyon Theater
- Delta Blues Museum
- Gotham Jazz
- Ice Cube
- In Our Time
- International Dialects of English Archive
- Junoon
- Lannan Audio Archive
- Lapham’s On Air
- Liberace Museum
- Live from the New York Public Library
- Opus 1 Classical
- Patrick Crosley
- Peter G. Davis
- Red Hot Jazz Archive
- Shanghai Love Hotel
- Smithsonian Folkways
- Sound of Young America
- Sounds of America
- Stories to Go
- Syd Lieberman
- The Bat Segundo Show
- The Contrarian
- The Generalist
- The Gramophone
- The Well-Tempered Blog
- Tonsil
- Utimate Bootleg Experience
- With Comb & Razor
Looking Around
Muses I
- Albert Camus
- Ambrose Bierce
- Amiri Baraka
- Anne Sexton
- Carl Hiaasen
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Portis
- Chester Himes
- Clark Ashton Smith
- Dennis Potter
- Emily Dickinson
- Ernest Bramah
- Flannery O’Connor
- Frederick Manfred
- Fritz Leiber
- George Orwell
- George Pelecanos
- Gore Vidal
- Hanif Kureishi
- Harlan Ellison
- Iain Banks
- Iceberg Slim
- Jack Vance
- Jacob Bronowski
- James Burke
- James Wolcott
- Jean Shepherd
- John Clute
- John D. MacDonald
- John Dos Passos
- John McPhee
- John Sandford
- John Sayles
- John Steinbeck
- Keith Roberts
- M. John Harrison
- Madison Smartt Bell
- Mervyn Peake
- Michael Bishop
- Michael Moorcock
- Neil Gaiman
- Philip Roth
- Raymond Carver
- Raymond Chandler
- Roald Dahl
- Robert Lowell
- Robert Silverberg
- Robert Stone
- Samuel Johnson
- Seamus Heaney
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Studs Terkel
- Ted Hughes
- The Flashman Society
- Travis McGee
- Upton Sinclair
- Walter M. Miller Jr.
- Wilfred Owen
- William Blake
- William Gibson
- William Shakespeare
- Zora Neale Hurston
Muses II
- Aaron Copland
- Bernard Herrmann
- Bob and Ray
- Charles Mingus
- Duke Ellington
- Elvis Costello
- Gyorgy Ligeti
- Husker Du
- Jimi Hendrix
- John Fahey
- Joni Mitchell
- Keith Jarrett
- Levon Helm
- Lou Reed
- Marc Blitzstein
- Muddy Waters
- Neil Young
- Olivier Messiaen
- Otis Taylor
- Public Enemy
- Randy Newman
- Robert Cray
- Rudy Ray Moore
- Sonny Boy Williamson
- The Band
- Umm Kulthoum
Reading Around
- 3 Quarks Daily
- 3:AM Magazine
- Adventures in Poetry
- Alice Blue
- American Scholar
- Art Garfunkel’s Library
- Atlantic
- Ballardian
- BibliOdyssey
- Bidoun
- Big Blue Marble Blog
- Boldtype
- Bookblog
- BookDaddy
- Bookforum
- Bookreporter
- Bookslut
- Boston Review
- Carlin Romano
- Critical Mass
- Crooked Timber
- Diaries of John Quincy Adams
- Fantastic Metropolis
- Favorite Poem Project
- Fiendish Plot
- Guardian Unlimited Books
- Hotel Zero
- Identity Theory
- Internet Review of Books
- Kate’s Book Blog
- Lance Mannion
- Language Log
- Literary Kicks
- LitMinds
- LQ Blog
- Matilda
- Maud Newton
- MetaFilter
- Modern American Poetry
- Naked Without Books
- New York Review of Books
- Outside the (Toy) Box
- Paper Cuts
- Perceval Press
- Quick Study/ Scott McLemee
- Rain Taxi
- Readerville
- Sans Everything
- Silliman’s Blog
- Simon Armitage
- Star-Ledger Books
- The Cimmerian
- The Compulsive Reader
- The Elegant Variation
- The Millions
- The Modern Word
- The New Press
- The Philosophers’ Magazine
- The Selfdivider
- The Smart Set
- Titlepage.TV
- Total Dick-Head
- Vagabond Scholar
- Words Without Borders
Scandinavianism
STARGAZING
Tools
- American Folklife Center
- American Heritage archives
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Chronicling America
- Colorado’s Historic Newspaper Collection
- Copyright Information Center
- Early English Books
- Google Scholar
- Harper’s Weekly Archive
- Internet Archive
- Librarians’ Internet Index
- Library of Congress
- National Archives of Ireland
- National Museum of American History
- Newseum
- Northern New York Historical Newspapers
- Old Magazine Articles
- Social Security Death Index
- World Clock
VIEWING AROUND
- 2001: Internet Resource Archive
- Bordwell/Thompson on Film
- Cahiers du cinema
- Cinebeats
- Conversations on Ghibli
- David Kehr
- Film Comment
- Film Experience
- GhibliWorld
- Glenn Kenny
- Hayao Miyazaki
- I Drink Your Milkshake!
- I, Claudius Project
- Jazz: Animated
- Kung Fu Cinema
- Revelle Forum
- Roger Ebert
- Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
- The Projectionist
- The Screengrab
- Vern!
Visitors
Writing Around
- A Good Blog is Hard to Find
- A Writer’s Life
- AAR
- Absolute Writer
- AgentQuery
- Book Standard News
- Catherine Shaffer
- Confessions of An Idiosyncratic Mind
- Contemporary Nomad
- Counterbalance
- Edward Champion
- Elmore Leonard
- Forward Motion
- Freelancer’s Lament
- GalleyCat
- Gwendolen Gross
- House of Mirth
- J.D. Rhoades
- Jay Lake
- Jennifer Jackson
- Jersey Writers
- Jim C. Hines
- Jim Tomlinson
- John Scalzi
- Ken Jennings
- Kevin Sessums
- Kirkus Reviews
- Kristy Kiernan
- Light Reading
- Madam Mayo
- Mat Johnson
- Michael Swanwick
- Miss Snark
- Moleskinerie
- Moorish Girl
- Nathan Bransford
- Nieman Narrative Digest
- Noir Writer
- Pamphilia Writes
- Paperback Writer
- Porochista Khakpour
- Publishers Marketplace
- Scriber Rescribus
- Sherry Chandler
- The Artful Writer
- The Biographer’s Craft
- The Countess
- The Happy Booker
- Urban Muse
- Vision
- Writing Junkie
Meta
