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Paul Grimstad is Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Humanities program. He writes regularly for The Believer, Bookforum, London Review of Books, The New Yorker, n+1, The Paris Review, Music and Literature, The New Republic, Times Literary Supplement and other journals and magazines.
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Paul Grimstad is Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate...
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Paul Grimstad is Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Humanities. He writes regularly for The Believer, Bookforum, London Review of Books, The New Yorker, n+1, The Paris Review, Music and Literature, The New Republic, Times Literary Supplement, Raritan, and other journals and magazines.
Mar 30, 2018 · Contributor Aaron Hunt got an exclusive interview with cult film composer Paul Grimstad. Promoting his latest movie, Thirst Street and the upcoming Jobe'z World, Grimstad discusses releasing samples from his 500 track vault of previously unreleased music.
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- In Monk’s Wake
Monk was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, in 1917 in a home where he might have heard some live music: his father could bang out ragtime on the piano as well as play harmonica, as Robin Kelly notes in his staggeringly thorough biography, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original(2010)—from which this essay draws most of its fa...
Whitney Balliett, who wrote about jazz for The New Yorker for almost fifty years, said of Monk that “his improvisations were molten Monk compositions and his compositions were frozen Monk improvisations.” A particularly extravagant instance of that thought is the outtake of “Round Midnight,” recorded as part of the Thelonious Himself (1957) session...
A mark of Monk’s originality is the way others have found ways to elaborate upon it. Steve Lacy, Don Pullen, Anthony Braxton, and Abdullah Ibrahim, to name a few, all cut Monk records that are also extensions of their own aesthetic. Distinguished pianists from the next generation—Stanley Cowell, Marcus Roberts, and Gonzalo Rubalcaba come to mind—ha...
Jan 19, 2020 · Paul Grimstad ponders the British mathematician Alan Turing’s influence on artificial intelligence, science fiction, Philip K. Dick, “Blade Runner,” Ian McEwan, and life in the corporate ...
Paul Grimstad mentions Edmund Wilson’s dismissal of H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction (LRB, 21 September). There is nothing scary, Wilson said, about an ‘invisible whistling octopus’. According to Grimstad the creature ridiculed here ‘appears at the end of the 1928 story “The Call of Cthulhu"’.
Jan 23, 2014 · Paul Grimstad’s first book, Experience and Experimental Writing, is out in paperback.
