Pamela Pireski's Thought Criminal Club

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"The gathering of thought criminals is just so self-important that I'm not an East Coast elite, so I don't read the New Yorker," Siskin says. "It's almost like a debutante ball in Sanyara ... Like this is her coming out to the world." Pireski: The gatherings are purely social and not part of the IDW. Of which your stepmother is? Are we sure there's a distinction?

What’s the meaning of a work of art? Does the text mean just what the author intends it to mean? Does it matter what Kubrick and Arthur C. Clark thinks about the end of 2001? Or is the artist’s interpretation just one interpretation among many once the text is out in the world? We explore the question of authorial intent, and brace yourselves - this is just about as postmodern as David gets.

Plus – do we have what it takes to get an invite to the thought criminals club?

Links

The Party is Canceled [newyorker.com]

Was I Wrong About The Irishman? by Thomas Flight [youtube.com]

Authorial Intent [wikipedia.org]