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In Which We Find Ourselves At A Loss
Hard to Say is This Recording’s weekly advice column. It will appear every Wednesday until the Earth perishes in a fiery blaze, or until North West turns 40. Get no-nonsense answers to all of your...
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In Which We Still Dream Of Orgonon
Running Up That Hill by ALEX CARNEVALE Clouds of Sils Maria dir. Olivier Assayas 124 minutes She is tired, actress Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is, of watching movies set on other planets. She...
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In Which Only A Few Of Them Were Lingering
Užásno! by SUMEJA TULIC Užásno! she said as she passed. Her crisp blue eyes pacified the fullness of her blonde hair and the wind that swept through the darkness of the street, like being tickled by...
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In Which The Timeliness Of This Nightmare Continues
Something's Missing by DICK CHENEY Hindsight creator Emily Fox Becca Brady (Laura Ramsey) is a deeply unhappy person. She is going to be married to a beautiful and considerate man with a good job. She...
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In Which Her Struggle With Knausgaard Rages On
What We Do For Our Friends by PENINA EILBERG-SCHWARTZ Two of my best friends hurt the people around them in ways that astound me. An acquaintance once said she was okay with Natasha, because she...
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In Which We Feel Very Crushed By Her Decision
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In Which She Receives Frequent Kindness On The PCT
Up and Down by JULIA CLARKE Wild dir. Jean-Marc Vallée 115 minutes As a heterosexual woman who grew up in the late 90s/early 2000s, I watched a lot of Brad Pitt movies--Legends of the Fall, A River...
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In Which We Deal With Chronic Pain On A Regular Basis
Anna Kendrick's Ghost Sucks by ALEX CARNEVALE Cake dir. Daniel Barnz 102 minutes There is a scene near the end of Cake where Jennifer Aniston lies down on train tracks. She is sniffling, crying out in...
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In Which The Dandelion Clock Strikes Midnight
Bouquet by HEATHER MCROBIE Running alongside the events of those years was like in the cartoons where the animated out-sized character doesn’t realize he’s run off the edge of a cliff, until he looks...
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In Which Jessica Chastain Resembles A Dinner Mint
Standard Oil by ALEX CARNEVALE A Most Violent Year dir. J.C. Chandor 121 minutes Oscar Isaac usually looks like a bunch of rolled up newspapers. Not here. As Abel Morales, the owner of a growing...
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In Which Some Of These Questions Occupy Our Time
Hard to Say is This Recording’s weekly advice column. It will appear every Wednesday until the Earth perishes in a fiery blaze, or until North West turns 40. Get no-nonsense answers to all of your...
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In Which We Cannot Pass Unseen Or Untouched
My Disposition by KARA VANDERBIJL I am always a little surprised to discover that I have a body. Soon after I’d moved to Chicago, someone brushed my arm on the train and I almost cried because I could...
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In Which Joseph Cornell Cannot Be Taken At Face Value
Constellations by ALEX CARNEVALE After a long detour of dreams, I've learned to love reality a little better. - Pierre Reverdy 1911. Joseph Cornell's father develops leukemia. Six years later he dies...
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In Which We Reveal All In The Time And Place Of Our Choosing
12 1/2 Months by LINDA EDDINGS January. He is the surprising replacement for the host's brother at a themed dinner party held by my oldest, most literal friend Janet. "Here is Simon," she says. "That...
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In Which We Start Our Own Record Company With Money From Drugs
Can't Touch This by DICK CHENEY Empire creator Lee Daniels & Danny Strong The moustache of Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) resembles a meaty little caterpillar. He loves his sons. He loves music....
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In Which We Consider Your Queries With Care
Hard to Say is This Recording’s weekly advice column. It will appear every Wednesday until the Earth perishes in a fiery blaze, or until North West turns 40. Get no-nonsense answers to all of your...
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In Which We Incorporate A Lulling Hush Intrinsically
Leaving Early by SAMANTHA SCHUYLER A car cries out from a place far away. Someone is leaning on the horn, squarely and securely, because the sound doesn’t let up for a full ten seconds. After the...
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In Which This Is What It Was For Alvin Ailey To Love Something
Against Type by ALEX CARNEVALE "You know the type - you've seen them," Alvin Ailey wrote about a gay man. "He had been afraid a long time and this he did not like." Women at Lester Horton's dance...
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In Which We Let Other Pens Dwell On Guilt And Misery
Eliot and Austen by CATHERINE ENGH This winter, on the heels of Emma and Persuasion, I read Middlemarch for the first time. Because of this sequence of things, I emerged out of Eliot’s novel with...
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In Which We Prepare An Eclectic Salmon Dinner For The Ages
Her Last Boyfriend by ALISON MARSTON-JONES No one may arbitrarily and with impunity exempt himself from tackling the problems which have come down to him from his fathers. - Ernst Käsemann At nine...
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