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In Which He Hated New York With A Passion
the archeologists, 1968 The Stupidity of All Mankind by GIORGIO DE CHIRICO In 1935 the Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico spent over a year in New York. It was his first trip to America. I was...
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In Which A Good Writer Has No Faults Only Sins
How and Why To Write On any given morning Flannery O'Connor would just wake up and bust out a short story, for example "A Circle in the Fire" ("Sometimes the last line of trees was a solid grey blue...
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In Which We Break Jack Nicholson Down Again Into Five Easy Pieces
Playing Piano On Top Of A Truck In Traffic by MOLLY LAMBERT Five Easy Pieces, 1970 dir. Bob Rafelson MOLLY LAMBERT V. JACK NICHOLSON: ROUND 2 I encountered Jack Nicholson onscreen for the first time...
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In Which We Piece Together The Last Months of James Joyce
If he was alive, James Joyce would have been 129 yesterday. Silence, Exile & Death by WHITTAKER CHAMBERS Last week a little group of people got together in Manhattan in an atmosphere of...
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In Which John Cheever Hits Rock Bottom
burt lancaster in john cheever's 'The Swimmer' John Cheever in Massachusetts by ELISABETH DONNELLY John Cheever was one of the few writers to get the cover of Time. In fact, he managed it twice in his...
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In Which It Is The Danger Mothers Warn About
Turn Back Time by KARINA WOLF 1987 was a good year for Cher: Suspect, The Witches of Eastwick, a popular fragrance, a pop-metal album, a bagel artisan boyfriend, and a best actress Oscar for...
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In Which We Hate Talking On The Phone
This is the second part of a series about the letters of Denise Levertov and Williams Carlos Williams. You can read the first part here. Agonies of Indecision The letters of the poets Denise Levertov...
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In Which Nothing About Audrey Hepburn's Ex-Husband Interests Us
The Dark Side of Audrey Hepburn by ALMIE ROSE Nothing about my ex-husband interests me. I have spent two years in hell – surely the worst in my life. More than once, I was at the station seeing...
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In Which We Learn How To Correctly Prepare A Canvas For Painting
I Paint by MOLLY LAMBERT Because I didn't go to art school, a class in the painting department was out of the question. Instead I signed up for the introductory painting class in the illustration...
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In Which This Must Not Remain So For Long
False Beard The diary of Franz Kafka in the year of our lord 1911 reveals the most sensitive, perceptive artist of a generation. In turn of the century Prague he was a Jew among Jews among Gentiles,...
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In Which I Can't Deny It I'm A Fine Hyna Got Your Boyfriend Jockin Me
FIRME ROJAS by MOLLY LAMBERT This is a passion project that I started working on while making the Kenny Powers mixes. I was digging for Mexican rock stuff for Volume 5 of my Eastbound & Down...
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In Which We Teach You How To Be A Woman In Any Boys' Club
Can't Be Tamed: A Manifesto by MOLLY LAMBERT for Kathleen Hanna, Kim Deal, and Kim Gordon Here are some rules about how to be a girl in a boys' club. This works for any world you're in or want to be...
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In Which Samuel Beckett Didn't Intend To Be A Writer
Someone To Walk With Him Before Dinner by SAMUEL BECKETT The following recollection of James Joyce is collected from James Knowlson's interviews with Samuel Beckett, which can be found in a volume you...
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In Which We Hang Out With Our Friends From College
Where White People Come Together With Other White People by ALEX CARNEVALE The Big Chill dir. Lawrence Kasdan 105 minutes The cinema of the the world we were born into holds a strange fascination,...
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In Which Players Always Love You When They're Playing
Crystal Visions by MOLLY LAMBERT Music is a drug. Science has officially demonstrated that music produces the same effects in the brain as powerful euphoric (psychosexual) experiences. The way drugs...
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In Which We Judge The Maturation of Gregg Araki
Youth Doom Fantasies by RYAN LINKOF Kaboom dir. Gregg Araki 86 minutes The lead characters in Kaboom drive a Nissan Cube. No element of the film sums up where the director Gregg Araki went wrong more...
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In Which Your Ballroom Days Are Over Baby They Got The Guns But We Got The...
Speak Now by MOLLY LAMBERT We want for Taylor Swift what we want for Betty Draper, which is for her to realize that the thing she has based her life around thus far is a fucked up lie. And that when...
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In Which We Have To Consider Why Shorty Always Wanna Be A Thug
East End Boys And West End Girls by MOLLY LAMBERT "Men infantilize women and women tear each other down" - Tina Fey, 30 Rock "I think you're overthinking this" - common response to my post on Boys'...
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In Which We Got A Pocket Full Of Rainbows Got A Heart Full Of Love
Telephone Wires by MOLLY LAMBERT Why is a sunset with telephone lines blocking it sometimes more beautiful than a straight sunset? The natural overlapping with the manmade is more beautiful than just...
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In Which I Wanna Live In Los Angeles But Not The One In Los Angeles
Hamlet Extreme by MOLLY LAMBERT Los Angeles is a city of extremes. I will not argue with you that Beverly Hills is one of the worst places on earth (see also: Fifth Avenue, Dubai) and that conspicuous...
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