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Why I read what I read

Monday, July 7, 2008

I finished Infinite Jest in January and, at the behest of a certain someone, recently picked up Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day.  Once again, I find myself meandering through a lengthy postmodern tome, this time set in a reimagined version of turn of the century America.  There are windships and æther, anarchists and Nikola Tesla, [...]

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In defense of quirk

Friday, August 31, 2007

The latest rash of criticism from the literati has been targeted at quirk, or quirkiness, or whatever you’d like to call it. Manifesting itself in things like Dave Egger’s McSweeney’s, Ira Glass’s This American Life, and the films of Wes Anderson, quirk is defined as such by Michael Hirschorn in The Atlantic:
As an aesthetic [...]

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Hollywood needs to go sing in the rain

Monday, February 6, 2006

In order to satisfy the fine arts requirement for my degree, I’m taking an introduction to film class. While not particularly difficult, it’s forcing me to sit down and finally watch the movies that I’m frequently being told that I should have seen a long time ago. Last week I had the chance to finally [...]

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