Rupert Holmes, on Creating a Victorian-Flavored Escape in Upstate NY, is an independent filmmaker and New York-based writer. His short film, The House of the Holy, was named one of the Top 25 Short Films by the New York Times. He contributes regularly to “The Village Voice,” where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in criticism. He lives in upstate New York, near the Hudson River.
The New York Times Magazine reports on the success of writer’s workshops. “The workshops ‘keep people engaged,’ said [Harvard-trained fiction editor] T.J. Stiles. ‘It’s like watching a film. You watch, you write, you watch, you write. You watch, you write, you watch. It’s kind of like the way you watch a play—there’s no other way to write a play other than writing it. With fiction, the experience is the same way. ‘You’re watching it go by. You’re watching it develop, and it takes a long time to go by, to develop. And then it does happen. It happens and then it’s over,’ she stressed. ‘People write.’ “
The New York Times reviews the state of the world. “The United States faces one of its most profound challenges in the post-Cold War era: how to maintain prosperity, growth and security without relying on an ever-increasing share of the federal budget on services that are often duplicative and inequitable. To the extent that the nation can manage that task, the United States will remain a formidable power with long-term economic opportunities that could be very different from those enjoyed by contemporary middle-income countries. To the extent that the United States cannot manage that task, or chooses to ignore it, a new world is growing around it, with new challenges of its own in the decades to come. How the United States chooses to address those challenges will determine the shape of the global economy and of American power for decades to come. (More by Matthew D. L. Brown, The New York Times, July 7, 2006.)
C. J. Boxer, “Who Speaks for the Left? A Brief History of the American Left” (Review of an exhibition on left-leaning artists at the National Museum of American History) at the New York Times.
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