I’ve been on a movie watching binge lately. Yesterday I watched Wild Strawberries, which was very very good, and today I saw The Last Picture Show , also very good. The other day I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which disappointed me. I guess I’m not much of a Jack Nicholson fan, although [...]
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Movies
Posted in Books, Movies on June 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What is it like to have the balls to compare yourself to Euripides?
Posted in Books on March 30, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Nicholas Sparks knows! This interview with him is awesome. Sparks says: “I’m going to interrupt you there. There’s a difference between drama and melodrama; evoking genuine emotion, or manipulating emotion. It’s a very fine eye-of-the-needle to thread. And it’s very rare that it works. That’s why I tend to dominate this particular genre. There is [...]
You lost me at “clothed”
Posted in Books, Sex on March 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Like schadenfreude, but better
Posted in Books on January 29, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Literary gnat Lori Gottlieb has resurfaced, this time with a book and a fucking movie deal spreading her cause célèbre, which is that women should settle for men they don’t love.* And, oh, who wrote that endorsement on the cover? Diablo Cody, that’s who. If you can’t read the fine print, she says: What Lori Gottlieb is [...]
Scientism and The Second Sex
Posted in Books, Feminism on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently dug up my old copy of The Second Sex, and because I feel guilty for never having read it all the way through, I started reading at the beginning a few days ago. I’m so glad I did; I’d forgotten what an amazing tour de force it is. Not only is De Beauvoir [...]
Shirley Jackson update
Posted in Books on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I found The Haunting of Hill House at the used book store this weekend. Like everyone else, I’ve read The Lottery, and while I enjoyed it at the time I don’t remember being particularly affected by it. Maybe I was too young. Anyhow, I’m pleased to report that Hill House is utterly captivating. At once lovely and [...]
The third stroke
Posted in Books on October 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been re-reading Dubliners, and it’s wonderful. This time I find myself identifying very strongly with the characters, which is probably a sign of pathology since they are all paralyzed, angry drunks. Oh, well. After this, I will read Ulysses and perhaps blog about it. And maybe I will blog about Dubliners, too, after I’ve thought about [...]
This woman’s boyfriend would never let her smoke in bed
Posted in Books, Feminism on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I want this book.
