J.D. Salinger passed away a few days ago. He’s most famous for Catcher in the Rye of course, although he wrote several other stories as well, but I have the sneaking suspicion that, if he were here, old J.D. Would prefer I not talk about him, so let’s focus on something else instead:
The Winter Nights Film Series, hosted by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, continues this week, January 29 at 7 p.m. ZapTown will be presenting articles on the films being shown throughout January and February. This week’s film in the series is Orson Welle’s Touch of Evil with special guests actor, director, and author Peter Bogdanovich (author of This Is Orson Welles and IU Emeritus Professor of Film Studies James Naremore (author of The Magic World of Orson Welles).
My apologies for the silence since the New Year. I haven’t gotten any columns out this month, and I feel bad about that.
One of the reasons why I’ve tried to champion reading fiction over the past year is that, when it’s well-written, fiction can be incredibly powerful. Powerful enough to change the way we look at the world around us, for better or worse. Let me give an example that shows I mean this quite literally:
Products are being pushed. HDTVs. Blue-ray players. Reindeer sweaters. If you go to Amazon.com, the front page features an ad for ‘the #1 bestselling, the #1 wished-for, and the #1 most gifted product on Amazon. Give the gift of reading’ .
Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing!
