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Humorist Roy Blount Jr. is one of America's most prolific authors and a regular panelist on NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. His latest book, Alphabet Juice is quasi dictionary/glossary of the English language, peppered with literary references, cultural oddities and hilarious musings on why we choose the words we do. TIME talked to Blount about the most literary band in America, why he advises investing $20,000 in mass transit and what Sarah Palin might mean for the future of politics...
...deals with this crucial point in American history over the course of 11 hours and nine episodes, and has been seen by more than 40 million viewers. “It chose us,” Burns says, in reference to the selection of Theodore Roosevelt for his latest project. “There’s always been that siren’s call to us, to what’s pristine.” While shooting earlier documentaries such as “The West” and “Lewis and Clark: The Journey...
...webpage where Michael Moore’s latest film, “Slacker Uprising,” is available for free download, Moore writes, “I’m giving you my blanket permission to not only download it, but also to e-mail it, burn it, and share it with anyone...In other words—it’s yours!” By presenting his documentary online, Moore has become one of the first big-name directors to challenge traditional notions of film distribution. Such munificence might be meaningful were the film anything more than...
...often matched by her ubiquitous sense of irony. What makes Vowell’s brand of humor impervious to any shifts is the fact that her best work—“The Partly Cloudy Patriot,” “Assassination Vacation” and her latest, “The Wordy Shipmates”—have dealt in her rich knowledge and extensive research of American history.“Assassination Vacation,” her last book, followed the arc of Vowell’s pilgrimage to the sites of three of America?...
Jewish leaders, who were observing Yom Kippur on Thursday, are expected to be deeply disappointed by Benedict's latest word on the matter. Earlier this week, Shear-Yashuv Cohen, chief rabbi of the Israeli port city of Haifa, who had been invited by the Pope to speak about the Bible at the current synod of bishops in Rome, told Benedict that Jews "cannot forgive and forget" the silence during the Holocaust from world religious leaders. Later, Cohen told reporters that Pius "should not be seen as a model, and he should not be beatified...