Wednesday, February 24, 2016

2016 Oscar Preview (JM)

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Today I received this out of the blue from my friend and collaborator Jay Maronde.  Let me just say I disagree with him about Best Actor, as...
Friday, February 5, 2016

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: a memoir - Carrie Brownstein (2015)

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I first became aware of Carrie Brownstein and Sleater-Kinney when I was a sophomore in college, back when they were touring behind One Be...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Why We Write About Ourselves - Ed. Meredith Maran (2016)

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For NaNoWriMo 2015, I wrote a 60,000 word shitty first draft of a memoir, to be published when I was 33, to document these first 33 years...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Just Kids - Patti Smith (2010)

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Let's go old school with this review.  Oeuvre rule: I first became aware of Patti Smith 13 years ago, when I took a course called ...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life - Carol Sklenicka

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Go back to the year 2000 with me, if you please.  I'm in Wilmette, IL at my parent's house, home on break from school out east, g...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

The Pale King - David Foster Wallace (2011) (MM)

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Seven months after I published my review, the person who requested that we start a book club sends his.  It is not a traditional revi...
Friday, November 27, 2015

Spectre - Dir. Sam Mendes (The Bond Project #24)

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Spectre  (2015) Blofeld Is Back  by Jay Maronde                 Despite all the hype about Star Wars Episode VII , the bigge...