I know nothing about the technical side of film. On the (very) few occasions that I actually write about film…
Rob Walsh’s Troublers
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Charlie Sayzz – twitter poem – PRESS RELEASE
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A Note on My Latest Yawn, etc.
And so today I find another unadventurous fiction longlist from the National Book Awards: not a single book from an…
The Dain Curse
I finished Dashiell Hammett’s The Dain Curse more than a year ago, as part of an ongoing effort to read…
Baudelaire’s Nightmare
In 1859, the Paris Salon allowed photographs into its exhibition. This brought a howl of outrage from Baudelaire, who claimed…