I logged into Harpers Magazine online to be able to send the article about Salka Viertel to my nephew Mark and I also sent it to Svetlana Schrieber. The Harpers site was still up another day and I happened on a review of George Packer's book about the diplomat Richard Holbrook, a critical review about what a not too notable diplomat who was not a nice person. The reviewer was a guy named Rieff, who has also written some interesting sounding books. One was about historical memory, as a factor that leads to feelings of national solidarity and also to resentments which can lead to violence. I looked him up on Wikipedia and found he was Susan Sontag's son, who wrote a memoir about her months dying of cancer. I'm interested in reading more of what he's written.
This morning I was on twitter and came across Anand Ghiridaradas talking about his new tv show on the cable channel Vice, called Seat at the Table. There was a link to watch the first episode, which I showed to V, but it didn't play very well on that link after his monologue for the first 14 minutes. Maybe we can see it on youtube, or find it on the Vice channel Wednesday night.
