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Michelle Orange

Michelle Orange‘s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Nation, The Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s and other publications and has been collected in The Best Sex Writing 2006 and Mountain Man Dance Moves. She is the author of The Sicily Papers and the editor of From the Notebook: The Unwritten Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a collection found in issue 22 of McSweeney’s. Follow her on Twitter @michelleorange.
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    The Last Book I Loved: Stop-Time

    A few times over a life, you find a book that inspires a physical kind of love: you can’t be far from it, stroke it absently for reassurance, take it to bed at night—slip it under your pillow or shove…

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    The Boss from the Hell Bosses Already in Hell Get Sent To

    From the self-employed comfort of my couch and a distance of about thirty years, oil company CEO Edward “Tiger Mike” Davis gives excellent memo; his contemptuous, petty rants read like the love song of Daniel Plainview.  But for anyone unlucky…

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    FADE TO ORANGE: Famous-on-Famous/Film Links Forever

    You know, you come home from, say, a happening launch party, it’s around midnight and you’re feeling excellent, you turn on the TV so as not to consume your prophylactic course of pretzels and water in anomic silence, and see…

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    Fade to Orange: He is So Totally That Into Me Edition

    I was in Halifax this weekend, visiting my 93-year-old grandma. Seeing her reminded me of the ace movie reviews she started sending me right after I moved to New York. My grandma loved to go to “the show” and would…

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    Fade to Orange: Michelle Orange’s International Film Link Incident

    One of the films a few critics I know are looking forward to at this year’s Sundance is a documentary called 211:Anna, about the 2006 assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Screening several times this week, this is not the…

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    Fade to Orange: Michelle Orange’s Film Link Happening

    I don’t know what to tell you about The Golden Globes, I missed them because I was out celebrating with a friend. We went to see Godard’s rarely screened Made in USA, mainly because

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    Fade to Orange: Michelle Orange’s Film Link Implosion

    The ladies! The ladies! Slate’s Movie Club is back and this year it’s allll woman. I love this thing, it’s the best thing about the crummy first week of the year.

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    Fade To Orange: Michelle Orange’s Random Film Links

    At my old stomping grounds, The Reeler, there is a great interview with Arnaud Desplechin, the French director of the excellent A Christmas Tale, current sweetheart of the critical set. At Film Comment Desplechin interviews his star, Catherine Deneuve,