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At the beginning of 21
As the year winds down and my ultimate departure from Madison looms nearer and nearer, I feel almost the way I imagine I will feel right before my death.
Audiences aren't interested in global issues. At least, that's the excuse many news sources have used when they drastically cut funding for international reporting or only show brief two-minute clips about the war in Chechnya while running in-depth specials about celebrity sex scandals.
This is it.
Sometimes when I consider why reading has been a big part of my life, I think of ""The Catcher in the Rye."" Even though it came out more than 50 years ago, it's still relevant to adolescents everywhere. It certainly was to me when I read it at 13 and found that it harmonized perfectly with my sense of angst and feelings that I had the most developed bullshit detector in the class.
The beginning of ""Waltz with Bashir"" weaves between conversations between friends and fragments of dreams. In one dream, a pack of wild, yellow-eyed dogs chase down a street, and in another, a giant, naked woman swims peacefully in the ocean. It seems as if the film will be about the separation of these things, the dissection of imagination from memory.
Last week, Chancellor Biddy Martin announced UW-Madison will launch a new common book program next fall called Go Big Read,"" designed to encourage exchanges and connections between students and alumni.
As its monocle-with-top-hat mascot suggests, the New Yorker is a snooty magazine. Its weirdly avant-garde comics suggest sophisticated"" humor beyond the comprehension of us normal plebes, and its densely written theater reviews add a touch of bourgeois to any magazine rack.
The beginning of February marks the beginning of Black History Month, when College Library begins setting up their annual table featuring the likes of James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison. This month's celebration is more significant than ever, as we witness the first weeks in office of this country's first African-American president.
Gus van Sant's Milk"" has once again brought moviegoers' attention towards that limited genre of the biopic. Critics love them (think of ""Ray"" and ""Monster""), but they're usually not the most exciting or innovative movies of the year. That's why one would be intrigued to see what Sant, who is known for his independent, more avant-garde work, would do with a biopic of a politician, of all people.
Most readers would probably agree that reading is a solitary activity.
If you've been to the bookstore regularly in the past 10 years, you've probably noticed how one section in particular grows almost exponentially each year. Comic-book nerds and fifth-graders in the midst of getting through Maus"" have been familiar with that section for ages. I'm talking, of course, about graphic novels.
The past three and a half months I've been studying abroad in Cape Town, South Africa. Like many exchange students, I get the obligatory biweekly phone call from my mother, communicate with my peers via Gmail and occasionally utilize the ever-popular Skype. But distance from my family and friends has also rekindled my interest in another form of keeping in touch: letter-writing.
Over the past 10 or so years, there's been a significant boom in the amount of memoirs getting published. An art that at one point in history was reserved for the moderately accomplished has since been taken up by beginning writers with - at least commercially - great success. Rather than ending a career with a memoir, authors like Dave Eggers begin with them.
One week a year, the American Library Association celebrates Banned Books Week.""
As summer approaches, Borders and Barnes & Noble across the country have begun to show off tables in their bookstores dedicated to summer reading.""
With the late Wisconsin primary gaining more importance in recent weeks, the state has become an arena for the kind of intense campaigning political junkies dream about.
Last Thursday, the State Bar of Wisconsin announced the formation of a Wisconsin Judicial Campaign Integrity Committee to monitor judicial campaign advertising, particularly in the upcoming race for state Supreme Court justice.
Robert Redford's latest film, Lions for Lambs,"" is so desperate in its attempts at relevance and profundity that when it fails to evoke the desired inspiration in American politics, the failure is as glaringly obvious as it is unsurprising.