Image smith duragno7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() He castigated those journalists who “sit down and render judgement.” That’s presumably unlike cable news pundits who self-destructed as Speaker of the House but who affect an intellectual certitude on any topic under the sun. Conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post, he said, “is the perfect example of.a person who can write well and sound like they know something but doesn’t know anything.” Newt Gingrich was in full media-bashing mode on Fox last night. ![]() Thiel sat next to Trump, a whole lot closer than Jeff Bezos of Amazon/ The Washington Post or the two Microsoft representatives. The session “highlighted the ascendancy of billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who as one of the president-elect’s trusted advisers is at the axis of the political power shift in Silicon Valley.” ( The Wall Street Journal)Ĭheck the Journal’s seating chart. Read it and see why Smith has no reason to dwell on the Stockholm stumble. “But, much better, she wrote this piece for us.” ( The New Yorker) “Sadly, she did not pluck me from journalism to join the band,” Remnick quipped to me. So The New Yorker, which is running on all creative cylinders these days and lapping much of the field, now gets a freebie from Patti Smith! Life is not fair. ![]() Seventy years of moments, seventy years of being human.” “And all the things I have seen and experienced and remember will be within me, and the remorse I had felt so heavily will joyfully meld with all other moments. “The year is coming to an end on December 30th, I will perform ‘Horses’ with my band, and my son and daughter, in the city where I was born,” she concludes. ![]() 30 in Chicago on her 70th birthday in fact 70 years after being born “within the vortex of a huge snowstorm” after her mom went into labor in a cab along Lake Shore Drive. They’d stayed in touch.Ī few days after the Nobel performance came an email that opens with her plan to perform Dec. We know because she felt compelled to write about the experience and, really, her life in a piece she spontaneously emailed to David Remnick, polymath editor of The New Yorker.Ī few years ago at The New Yorker Festival, Remnick took a guitar and backed up Smith during a rendition of her “Because the Night” (find any live version with her and Bruce Springsteen). “As I took my seat, I felt the humiliating sting of failure, but also the strange realization that I had somehow entered and truly lived the world of the lyrics.” She writes: “It was not lost on me that the narrative of the song begins with the words ‘I stumbled alongside of 12 misty mountains,’ and ends with the line ‘And I’ll know my song well before I start singing.’” It’s marvelous very much as a function of its very imperfection. She apologized “for being so nervous.” She then continued, albeit a bit haltingly but finished with aplomb and the obvious respect and even tear-filled warmth of her elite, implacably reserved (Scandinavian) audience. She started well but was overcome with a “plethora of emotions” she could not navigate. She stood to perform before some of the great minds of the world, surrounded by a large classical orchestra. Her heart pounded when Dylan, a no-show, was announced formally as the Literature recipient. ![]()
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