The date on this post is old, but the information is up to date .. The interactive list is in the post below this one. I could leave it without comment, but supposing can implies ought here are 2 graphs..
Plot 1 The date of creation of AK's selections. You see a sort of cultural year zero at about 1970, so there's very little he likes from his early adulthood (dob 1954) - which shows a remarkable lack of nostalgia. I still haven't read his memoir so I don't know what kind of a time he was having in his twenties, and whether or not this gap is repudiation, or just plain old maturity.
You can swap this chart for one which shows that AK's cultural universe obeys the Pareto principle.
Plot 2 Timeline with a 2 week moving average. I was impressed by Klavan's present-minded thinking in a crisis - take a look at the run of brand-new works he recommended when Trump's campaign looked like crumbling following his 1st debate performance and Grabgate: far from hunkering down with some classics, he was immediately looking beyond the wreckage for the first cultural green shoots of a conservative resurgence.
AK has abandoned the daily addition to the list, so I'll call my effort here complete and send the site into an eternal klavanless weekend. Now all I have to do is read and watch (and sing and play) everything.
This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. It saved me a lot of time--I was going to compile one! Woo-hoo!!! I trust AK's taste in anything. :) Whoever did this ... thank you! :)
ReplyDeleteYes! I want to chime in "Thank you!" for this. Please bring the listings back from the eternal Klavanless weekend and bring us up to the 400s. And please let DW know about this so they can let others know. I'm so happy to have this listing. Thank you and a big WOOHOO!
ReplyDeleteThanks. The trouble is there are so damned many podcasts to listen to now. I can't keep up!
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