Depardieu is on trial, and so is France. It’s a cultural reckoning in an era of #MeToo https://www.byteseu.com/866993/ #AdeleHaenel #AlainMorel #AmberHeard #AnoukGrinberg #CannesFilmFestival #CatherineDeneuve #celebrity #EmmanuelMacron #Entertainment #France #GeneralNews #GrardDepardieu #Indictments #JeanDujardin #JohnUpdike #JohnnyDepp #JudithGodreche #MeToo #movies #NicolasBedos #RomanPolanski #SexualAssault #VladimirPutin #Women'sRights #WorldNews #YasmineBensalem
[The New Yorker Archive]: A Nation of Eyewitnesses to J.F.K.’s Assassination
How it feels—and what it means—to watch a President slain on TV. By John Updike November 29, 1963
“None of our country’s four slain Presidents were victims of any distinct idea of opposition or hope of gain; they were sacrificed, rather, to the blind tides of criminality and insanity that make civilization precarious. [..]
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/12/07/john-updike-jfk-assassination-comment
Reading some essays by #JohnUpdike on #art came across this great painting by John Sloan (one of the Ashcan school of American #artists) of his wife putting out the washing on a Sunday... somehow captures the tenement living of early C20th #NewYork concisely....
People and books that helped form who I am today:
#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy
So, having finished a book 3 days ago, now I finished another one 
... "Easy #Prey" (2000), by #JohnSandford.
Probably the most fun I've had so far with the series and liked that it was a #thriller where we don't know #whodunnit, as opposed to the others I've read in the series. The humor was also on point for this one, and #LucasDavenport got some character development.
Now the question is: do I follow that with #LorrieMoore or #JohnUpdike?
