Yesterday my wife and I went to see Waiting for Godot at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway, starring Alex Winter (you know, Bill) as Vladimir and Keanu Reeves (you know, Ted) as Estragon. This is of course stunt casting to the extreme. We went knowing this. Still, I feel like I have to get this off my chest: If you are not a “Godot” fan, you probably will not like this “Godot” — and if you are a “Godot” fan, you certainly will not like this “Godot.”| Arthur O’Dwyer
Jorge Luis Borges, The Masked Dyer, Hakim of Merv (1934, tr. N. T. di Giovanni):| Arthur O’Dwyer
In October’s Overload magazine Chris Oldwood muses on Italo Calvino’s definition of what makes a book a “classic” (“Why Read the Classics?”, 1986). Calvino’s essay suggests fourteen different ways of describing the elephant that is “a classic,” including:| Arthur O’Dwyer