David Bowie and Samuel Beckett’s Ghost Town at World’s End
How a stroll through the David Bowie exhibit at the Victoria & Albert to an auctioning of a Samuel Beckett manuscript at Sotheby’s left me at the World’s End.
Rodney Sharkey
Rodney Sharkey received his Ph.D. on the work of Samuel Beckett from Trinity College Dublin in 1998. He has published regularly on Beckett, James Joyce, popular music, the graphic novel and other forms of popular culture. At present, he teaches Humanities to medical students at Weill-Cornell Medical College Qatar, the Middle East branch campus of Cornell University's New York medical school.
Songs of Simulation and Discouragement: Bowie, Bono, and Authenticity
With its Apple-sponsored free public release, U2's Songs of Innocence betrays just how far the band has come from their past, despite its attempts to bring back a Dublinesque vision.