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Jeremy Hatch
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To Introduce Myself…
It feels odd to write about myself in this space, but it was said: “Jeremy! Introduce yourself!” So here I am, attempting to come up with a few gently self-deprecating words by which ye shall know me. Before anything else,…
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The Gotham Style
There’s a fantastic article on Life Without Buildings, Jimmy Stamp’s blog about architecture out of context, on how Gotham City came to have the look we know from the Tim Burton films (within the Batman universe, that is) and includes a…
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The Girlfriend Experience: Interviews and a Set Diary
I know: your interest in The Girlfriend Experience may have been exhausted by last week’s face-off between Stephen Elliott and Andrew Altschul. But if instead their disagreement only made you curious to learn even more, let me recommend this interview with…
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Dictionaroke, and Other Sing-alongs
Nancy Friedman writes: Dictionaraoke: A musical form in which an instrumental (karaoke) version of a song is accompanied by online dictionary-pronunciation audio files.
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Oral History According to David Lynch: Interview Project
David Lynch’s most recent project seems to be a complete departure from the epic, surreal fictions that made him famous: a collection of oral histories of ordinary people, which he has called simply Interview Project. The research concept was straightforward:…
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Raymond Chandler on Pulp, on Writing, and on Readers
My wife’s been steadily devouring Raymond Chandler, pacing herself so she doesn’t read it all at once (there is, after all, a limited supply). The other night she started in on the story collection Trouble is My Business and read…
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The Life of Ferlinghetti
Chris Felver’s doc about Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a little rough around the edges, with jumpy editing and a tendency to wander away from the subject of the moment without adequate explanation, but it’s an engaging film all the same, featuring a wealth of archival footage, home…
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Herbert Gold on Saul Bellow, Extracted from Pushcart XXXII
The last few days, I’ve been boxing up some of my books in preparation to donate them to a good cause, about which more will be said when the appropriate time comes. Among these books are nine editions of The…
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In New Yorker Letter, Lee Gruenfeld Diagnoses Toback Fail in Tyson
In this week’s New Yorker, Lee Gruenfeld writes to the editor:
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The Rumpus Interview with Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan, the Armenian-Canadian director best known for The Sweet Hereafter, Where the Truth Lies, and Ararat, is back with a new film out in theaters, titled Adoration.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kirby Dick
Kirby Dick’s new film, four years in the making, seeks to expose the secret, and sometimes not-so-secret, double lives of closeted gay politicians, whose numbers are higher than you might imagine.