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Recently Lev Grossman explained how he chooses books to review. “I review books,” he proclaimed, “if they do something I’ve…
A Medley of Gass Interviews and His Influence
Over at the Reading William Gass website, curated by Stephen Schenkenberg, a video has been unearthed of Gass talking in…
The Overlook Hotel – the best resource for The Shining
The Overlook Hotel is simply the best site about The Shining on the internet. There are dozens of never before…
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As an artist limited by his circumstance in the warring, emaciated USSR throughout the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, Andrei Tarkovsky…
William Gaddis Occupies Wall Street in JR
Dalkey Archive Press has just reissused two of the most important texts of the past sixty years–William Gaddis’s The Recognitions…
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It has been quite a few months for Gertrude Stein. Since Kathy Bates’ appearance as her in Woody Allen’s Midnight…
Marlon Brando Opens Up About Burt Reynolds
On the set of Apocalypse Now: COPPOLA: …Burt Reynolds. BRANDO: Don’t say…
Report from the Middle of The Ambassadors by Henry James
Embedding oneself in The Ambassadors by Henry James is like reading little else. Every time I take book in hand…
Bressonmania
The Robert Bresson Retrospective is at the Film Forum right now. But it is going to other venues in the…