April 2012
New publications: Farther Away (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a collection of essays and lectures by Jonathan Franzen; As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Journals and Notebooks from 1964-1980 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff; Jeffrey Herf on the Günther Grass controversy in the New Republic; Kirk W. Johnson's documentary about the List Project premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival; on show: Reynold Reynolds "Made in Germany Zwei" at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, May 16 through August 19; Jenny Holzer "Endgame" at Sprüth Magers Berlin, April 27 through June 16; Aaron Curry "Buzz Kill" at Michael Werner in New York, May 1 through June 23; Derek Chollet joins Steve Simon on the NSC's Syria policy team; the Academy congratulates alumni Peter Maass and John Wray for winning a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as Andrew Norman and Tod Machover for being finalists for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in
