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Lucas Museum in L.A. to Open With Free Passes for Local Residents

George Lucas and Mellody Hobson’s Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles opens on Sept. 22 and will offer free annual passes plus early previews to neighbors in the nearby South L.A. 90037 ZIP code. The $1 billion, 300,000-square-foot institution will showcase more than 1,300 works, with architecture by Ma Yansong and landscapes by Mia Lehrer, on a campus in Exposition Park near the California Science Center and Natural History Museum.

1 day ago•Source: The Hollywood Reporter

The Significance of Bodily Functions in Literature.

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7.73 min•3 years ago

The Significance of Bodily Functions in Literature.

Bodily functions are often overlooked in literature and poetry, but for some writers, they drive action and create memorable characters. Ottessa Moshfegh and Karl Ove Knausgaard are two contemporary writers who pay close attention to these matters, with Moshfegh's descriptions often being moments of protest and depravity, while Knausgaard's tend towards the mundane. Eliminations add chaos, comedy, disgust, shame, irony, urgency, and anguish to narrative, and are as much a part of life as sex. Fiction that avoids or denies feces is considered kitsch.

via The New York Times