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Jeremy Hatch
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The Last Book I Loved: Life, Inc.
Although the title of this book would seem to promise another critique of the practices of specific corporations we do business with every day (often for a lack of alternatives), Rushkoff is after much bigger game: Life, Inc. is a…
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Rushdie on Film and the Novel
“The movies are now old enough — we’ve had a century of movies — that you can actually look at a long period of time during which there has been interaction between the forms [of film and the novel]. And…
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Thoughts on The Salt Smugglers at TQC
“Nerval is remembered as a minor literary figure, an eccentric who walked his pet lobster on a ribbon in the Palais Royal, gabbled his poetry in doorways, read at night with a candlestick on his head, and slept in coaches…
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Live As if Everything Were a Miracle
“Someone said there are only two ways to live your life: one is as if nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is. I’ve always been convinced Havana is an annexed colony of the latter… “I was…
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“Friends” vs. Friends, Twitter vs. The Long Missive
William Deresiewicz just published a long essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education that’s worth spending some time with: “Faux Friendship,” in which he traces how the concept of friendship has changed since classical times — it used to be…
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The Road from Infinite Jest to Oscar Wao
New York Magazine‘s Sam Anderson — who is, in my opinion, a top contender for a spot on IHateYouAndIWantYourLife.com — has written a fascinating piece outlining his view of the way ambitious novels have changed in the past ten years.…
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Path Lights by Zachary Sluser
The David Lynch Foundation wrote us the other day to mention a delightful film they’re screening on the DLF.TV website until December 9th: Path Lights. It’s a 22-minute short, based on a 2005 story by Tom Drury, about a voice…
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A Disarming Post-Adolescent Intensity
“His prose may often rest on a banality (“we like to feel superior to others. But our problem is that we’re not superior”) but his inner turmoil over such bland ideas, expressed with a post-adolescent intensity, is disarming.” Ron Slate reviews…
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Conversations About The Internet #4: Brett Gaylor on Filesharing and Remix Culture
In setting up Open Source Cinema, I was inspired by the open source software process – software that people can contribute to and change and collectively build. And I thought that idea applied really well to documentary film. I thought,…
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Terry Gilliam, Movie by Movie
Total Film has published an installment of their regular feature “Movie by Movie,” about each one of Terry Gilliam’s films: “The Trials, the Tribulations, The Triumphs.” From Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Jabberwocky on to Time Bandits —…
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An Extra March to Fetch the Year Around
Thoreau’s Journal is forthcoming in a new edition from NYRB Classics, abridged by Damion Searls; the Quarterly Conversation’s Geoff Wisner has given a favorable and interesting review of the book:
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DVD Review: Medicine for Melancholy
Two people meet at a party, have a one-night stand, and — in the cold awkward light of morning — finally get around to introducing themselves to one another. And maybe they even have coffee, and continue the conversation. And…