J’s Notes

A new reader to J’s Notes (welcome aboard, Jim) pointed out that Edward (who I had called Ed) Hopper’s inspiration for “The Nighthawks” may have been Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Killers”.  From an interview with Gail Levins:
DA : In Silent Places (Universe, 2000), you mention that detective and mystery writers most frequently refer to [...]

Is war photography art?  An interview with Philip Jones Griffiths:
My photography, unlike say, police photography, relies on emotion. I need to make the viewer laugh or cry, and sometimes both. Statistics are important, but it’s a photograph of the anguish in the eyes of a starving child in Darfur that initiates the quest for a [...]