You Might Never Find Your Way Back: Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman
There are other odd, improbable, tenuous connections, as if Hangsaman had a secret way of speaking to (or through) other artifacts beyond its time.
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Kathryn A. Higgins is writer and mom living with her two children. She has a B.A. in English Lit from U.C. Berkeley and an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She's recently published an ebook, Snide Remarks in Sotto Voce, a literary skewering of modern communication and lifestyle, and includes 47 of Kathryn Higgins's humorous writings, most of which have been previously published in literary journals, magazines, and humor webzines. Imagine your most earnest self-help article, career-guidance pamphlet, or villanelle pasted on the wall and punctured with arrows dipped in equal parts humor and snark. You can download it here.
Django Take #3: (Re)chained
Django is not a movie with “villains.” Instead, the movie itself is villainous.
Emily, Eyes Shut
To look inward, at the smallest of things—this is what novels do. And now microscopes.
The Supreme Court School of PoMo Theory
“All literature is interactive,” [Scalia] writes, countering those who find special danger in violent video games because of their interactivity.
Total War: A Film Reminiscence
In those days, the only way to see David Lynch’s early, short films was to start or join a film club, pool resources, and rent them from some place like…
Some Notes on Paranormal Activity 3 as a Structural Film
Earlier this year, I made a case for Paranormal Activity 2 as an avant-garde film,
Donnie Darko and the Tyranny of the Franks
Perhaps the most enduring movies are those that tempt us into deep interpretation even as they resist all efforts to impose meaning on them.
10/40/70 #37: Marnie
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…
Lucy’s Profound Restoration: The Trailer for Sleeping Beauty
The trailer for Sleeping Beauty (directed by Julia Leigh, 2011) clocking in at just over one minute and 30 seconds,
Running Around Being Clones of Ourselves: The Random Topic Interview with Megan Boyle
On the evening of July 27 I interviewed Megan Boyle over gchat. Rather than prepare questions or focus on a specific topic, we used Wikipedia’s “random article” link to go…
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Note: This is the final installment of a three-part series. Here are parts 1 and 2.