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Apr.24.2013
and I don't have time to go into a lot of detail about my growing disappointment with Mad Men.
But, of all the commentary on MM's sixth season thus far (and there's been plenty:), William Bradley's take at the Huffington Post pretty well sums up why I find myself oddly disengaged from storytelling...
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Dec.20.2012
became a sin of commission...
Back in 2009, I had just begun researching the life of Irna Phillps, soap opera's single mother, when I came across an article about her in the now-defunct publication, The Common Review, titled "Imperial Soap Opera," by Chicago writer, Les White.
Six paragraphs into...
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Dec.15.2012
Officially, this short piece I wrote about Irna Phillips is part of the January-February issue of Harvard Magazine. But, since the issue went online yesterday, here an early look.
http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/01/vita-irna-phillips
The article is a compressed version of the preface I wrote for "...
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Oct.19.2012
but it was worth it...
back in march, when i first mentioned that i was collecting some of my essays on "as the world turns" into an ebook, i thought i'd be done before now. but the resulting collection, "as the world stopped turning...the personal, idiosyncratic, often frustrated, sometimes angry...
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Oct.03.2012
finally...
she said hopefully...
and while we're at it, let's change serialized storytelling back to...
soap opera...
2011 was a brutal year for serial drama (at least the kind of serial drama I like): Friday Night Lights, Men of a Certain Age, Life UneXpected, In Treatment, all gone. My favorite...
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Sep.17.2012
not a verb...
a place to post what i've written rather than something i do on a regular basis.
which is one way of explaining why i've been silent these past several months. back in march, i mentioned that i was collecting some of my essays on as the world turns into an ebook. at the time, i...
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May.01.2012
At the time, I truly believed that my days of watching daytime soaps came to an end when the final episode of As the World Turns aired on September 17th, 2010. Of course, as my mother was so fond of telling me: never say never.
So, when One Life to Live left the air in January, I skipped the...
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Apr.02.2012
For me, the pleasure of watching soaps lies in the quite conversations between characters during which absolutely nothing happens. So, I’ve always found the “shocking secret revealed...” school of soap opera promos over-the-top. However...
As part of its release of “The Story of Lily and Holden” on...
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Mar.22.2012
Truth is, hearing the news that Soap Opera Weekly was shutting down, I felt much as I did when I heard that As the World Turns was canceled; I called a friend and said that if the show had been our family pet, we would have long-since taken it to the vet to be put out of its misery.
As I wrote...
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Mar.21.2012
doesn’t mean I haven’t been working...
But, while I’m excited to be collecting some of my Red Room essays on As the World Turns into an e-book, the truth is that I’ve been having difficult time writing about the current state of serialized storytelling, though certainly not for lack of available...
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