Gatsby | Gatsby
May.24.2013
I love the novel The Great Gatsby. Love it in that yeah-I-know-all-the-dialogue-by-heart kind of way. So I was terrified that if I went to the Baz Luhrmann movie, I would I be that annoying old person grumbling in the dark: That is NOT the way Nick woke up after Tom's NYC party. That is NOT the way...
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May.19.2013
I love movies. I'm a sucker for a great romance. Truth is, I'm pretty silly for even a hint of romance. I like it when things work out. I don't mind the journey or the ups and downs, but I need a happy ending. I've watched romances with less than happy endings...
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Jan.22.2013
In American literature, there are two distinct "schools" that emerged from the Lost Generation of ex-patriates who lived in Paris after World War I. These are the Hemingway and Fitzgerald wings of political novelization.
Fitzgerald was a member of the East Coast elite, the Ivy Leaguers of the...
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Aug.07.2010
Remember Me With Love, By Mary Ann Artrip
The advantage to reading big-name, well-publicized writers is that you know (more or less) what you’re getting in advance. The advantage to reading a little known writer is the delightful surprise of discovering something eminently readable,...
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Aug.07.2010
Remember Me With Love, By Mary Ann Artrip
The advantage to reading big-name, well-publicized writers is that you know (more or less) what you’re getting in advance. The advantage to reading a little known writer is the delightful surprise of discovering something eminently readable,...
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Apr.01.2010
The Museum of Innocence, by Orhan Pamuk
It takes a certain emotional discipline to read European Literature. No, change that – it takes a certain unique discipline to read any literature other than that of these United States. We here in the colonies go for hidden tawdriness, spelled out...
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Jul.23.2009
When one reads a novel narrated by a peripheral character whose job it is to reveal another, more luminous personality, the tendency is to compare it to The Great Gatsby and its narrator Nick Carraway. In the case of Guterson’s new book, The Other, that comparison quickly becomes an unfair one....
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