Brevity, Part 2: Long Takes
Some of us have been discussing long takes in movies, and John mentioned that he’d like seeing a list of films that consist primarily of the beautiful things. So here is a start at such a list. (And...
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Leonardo #1, page 17 (1987) (detail; First Publishing reprint). Art by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. 1. My father, who once trained as a baker, taught me when I was a kid how to bake an apple pie. I...
View ArticlePaula Bomer’s Recent Reading at Brown University
Here’s the introduction I delivered before Paula Bomer’s reading at Brown University’s Literary Arts Department’s Demitasse on February 21, 2013: Reading Paula Bomer’s alternately sardonic and poignant...
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