Thanks to Sofia Coppola, I am reminded that this happened, and it’s just as amazing as it was the first time around.
Selected Shorts: What Would You Do? (Feat. David Sedaris)
Recommended Listening: David Sedaris presented three short stories while guest hosting WNYC’s Selected Shorts. The three stories were written by Amy Hempel, Tobias Wolff, and Frank Gannon, and each one has to do with “hard choices,” says Sedaris.
“In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried” destroys me every time I read it. This is great listening.
“People speak sometimes about the ‘bestial’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts; no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
— Dostoyevsky (via kateoplis)
“It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.” —Jean-Paul Sartre
Sarah Polley, the director of the new documentary Stories We Tell, tells Terry Gross about including footage of retakes in the film:
I think that, for me, it was really important to not leave the construction of the film out because it’s a film about storytelling and how we tell stories and why we tell stories. I thought it was really important to include the process of making this film itself in the film and some of that involves some rather unflattering and ruthless moments for me like directing my dad when he’s … pouring his heart out, basically. And, you know, you do get into this mode, I think, when you’re telling a story — or certainly when you’re making a film — where you can kind of lose your sense or your barometer for what’s human or humane and certainly I think there are a few moments in the film where I’m directing my dad where I don’t come off that well, but I certainly come off as somebody who’s trying to tell a story above all else.
Image courtesy of Roadside Attractions Publicity
Photo: Sergey Gorshkov
A feisty fox drives a snow goose from her nest, a gambit before an act of egg thievery. A colony of geese migrates to the island in May after wintering in North America.
gq:
I was gonna say something snarky like, you know, “open your mouth, pour in whiskey,” but then I click on the link and the first words are, “1 Part Whiskey + 1 Part Whiskey + 1 Part Whiskey = Your New Favorite Cocktail”
