Goines On: Real people

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Goines used to think of time spent watching movies or TV series as “escapist” – time away from “real life.” For that reason, he was caught off guard and surprised, a few episodes into watching the Israeli TV series Shtisel, to realize that the characters of most of the dramatizations he watched were as real to him as the actual people he interacted with. Goines truly cared about some (or most) of the characters he encountered in various dramas, perhaps especially in the case of Shtisel.

Ask Wednesday: Susan C. Price on her art

I first met Susan Price in 1966, when my new wife and I visited her family in San Diego, because her older brother had been a friend of mine at Yale. We've stayed in touch, had dinner with our spouses in October 2006.
    Susan is a self-described amateur artist, utterly without pretensions. She says that she's "trying to learn to paint." Well, we like her work so much that we asked Susie if we could show you some of it, perhaps in the course of an interview? [Our questions are in italics]: