• Umberto Eco’s 36 Rules for Writing Well (in English or Italian)

    Umberto Eco’s 36 Rules for Writing Well (in English or Italian)
    Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland
    Umberto Eco knew a great many things. Indeed too many things, at least according to his critics: “Eco knows everything there is to know and spews it in your face in the most blasé manner,” declared Pier Paolo Pasolini, “as if you were listening to a robot.” That line appears quoted in Tim Parks’ review of Pape Satàn Aleppe, a posthumous collection of essays from La
  • The Horrors of Bull Island, “the Worst Music Festival of All Time” (1972)

    The Horrors of Bull Island, “the Worst Music Festival of All Time” (1972)
    It’s maybe a little unfair to compare 1972’s “Bull Island” Festival to Fyre Fest, the music festival scam so egregious it warranted dueling documentaries on Hulu and Netflix. But “Bull Island” — or what was originally called the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival — was an epic catastrophe, maybe the worst in music festival history, and well deserving of its own media franchise. Still, its organizers had every intention of following through on the event.

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