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Obsessing the Mysteries at Sundance
Shortly after beginning my graduate career at Pitt, the place where Michael Chabon was an English major undergrad, I was an extra in the film version of his book Mysteries of Pittsburgh. I was in the...
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LA Times film reviewer Kenneth Turan writes about the risk of being wrong in the face of “the tyranny of the masterpiece.” I am kind of amazed by the comments — many vitriolic, from...
View ArticleLiesl Schillinger: WTF?
Usually I appreciate Schillinger’s reviews, which is why I was astonished to find her bringing a bunch of paper-thin gender assumptions to Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen in the NY Times:...
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Nietzche in the morning
Shortly after getting up I checked my Twitter feed — a weakness, to be sure — and saw that Alain de Botton was Tweeting quotes about anger. Here’s one: Angry people call poverty on themselves and ruin...
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