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...joking aside, do you think you could you take him down in a fist fight?SP: He’s a street kid from Brooklyn. I wouldn’t mess with him.14. FM: Two of your books are about language and two are about human nature. Your latest book combines the two—what’s next?SP: My next book is going be on the decline of violence and its implications. The phenomenon that people are unaware of is that we are probably living in the most peaceful time in history. Homicides, torture, war, genocides, civil...
...performance was often eccentric, but presented a profound and creative work of mixed media.The work consisted of Porter’s portrayal of Dr. Nickie Nom, a “Forensic Orthopedic Autopsy Muscular Anatomical Surgical Specialist.” Porter recited the doctor’s latest work, the eponymous collection of poems about muscles, while moving her own muscles in interpretive dances of the poems. The performance was imaginative, creative, and a bit beyond the pale. Claire Porter’s poetry dives into the mundane names of over 68 different muscles, describing their respective functions and etymological...
...Mothergun,” and “Pussy Boy,” Australian playwright and Harvard lecturer Christine M. Evans is not exactly looking to be uncontroversial.Evans, the Briggs-Copeland lecturer on English and American literature and language, is set to debut her latest play, “Weightless,” at the Perishable Theatre in Providence on Monday, Oct. 29. The play is about a family living on the top of skyscraper who don’t want to acknowledge that it’s slowly cracking apart beneath their feet.“It?...
...consumer-driven society in our collective face for us to laugh at. And laugh we did, all the way up until the bizarre, self-referential ending to 2006’s quirky “JPod.” But something has been lost in his latest work. In the humorless and melancholy “Gum Thief,” Coupland seems dangerously close to falling from his observer’s perch.In attempting to expand his literary palette into the genre of modern tragedy, Coupland has created a Frankenstein-esque fusion of his illustrious satirical past...
...doctors are supposed to be passionate about their life’s calling. But a doctor who actually writes poems about muscles? That’s a bit unusual. That’s the premise of dancer Claire Porter’s latest production, dubbed “Namely, Muscles.” Coming to the Harvard Dance Center this Saturday at 8 p.m., this one-woman show features Porter, posing as a doctor, flexing specific muscles while reciting poetry. “Most of my work is a mix of movement and text,” says Porter. This...