Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Alexander Cockburn on C-SPAN2's BookTV

http://www.booktv.org/General/index.asp?segID=7879&schedID=482&category=In+Depth

Update (April 4, 2:58 p.m.): A brief segment (1:08:55-1:16:35) in the middle of the program features Cockburn at his place in Petrolia. Towards the end (beginning 1:15:17) were three lists:

People Who Have Inspired Alexander Cockburn

His father, Claud Cockburn
His mother, Patricia Cockburn
His friends at New Left Review
His friend, Andrew Kopkind
His friend, Pierre Sprey
The Abraham Lincoln Brigades
Patrice Lumumba
Frantz Fanon

Some of Alexander Cockburn's Favorite Writers

Marcel Proust
Stendhal
Nikolai Gogol
Mikhail Bulgakov
Thomas Love Peacock
Gustave Flaubert
James Joyce
Flann O'Brien
Theodor Adorno
H.J. Massingham
Edward Abbey
Ezra Pound
Jean-Paul Sartre
P.G. Wodehouse

Alexander Cockburn is Currently Reading

Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project
Siegfried Giedion, Mechanization Takes Control*
Douglas Peacock, Walking It Off
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews
Ella Lingens-Reiner, Prisoners of Fear
David Arora, Mushrooms Demystified*
E.C.S. and Elizabeth Handy, Native Planters of Hawaii*
Joan Halperin, Felix Feneon
K.T. Achaya, Historical Dictionary of Indian Food
Joy Williams, The Quick and the Dead*
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*As identified on C-SPAN2. The author's first name is spelled Sigfried and the book's title is actually Mechanization Takes Command (all emphases mine)

*As identified on C-SPAN2. The book's title is actually Native Planters in Old Hawaii: Their Life, Lore, and Environment. The C and S in E.C.S. were transposed. The author's initials are actually E.S.C. (short for Edward Smith Craighill). An index to Native Planters was compiled in 1987.

*The Amazon.com results list for David Arora includes an item for a work (Treatment Options for Giardia, Cryptosporidium, and Other Contaminants in Recycled Backwash Water [American Water Works Association, 2001]) co-edited by one Harish Arora. I wonder if David and Harish Arora are related.

*The original meaning of "the quick and the dead" is explained here.

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