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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Heidi 2: The Quickening

January 23, 2019January 23, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Agatha Christie, Aldous Huxley, Bobbsey Twins, Carl Sandburg, copyright, D.H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, Don Quixote, Edith Wharton, Heidi, Jean Toomer, public domain, Tarzan, The Three Musketeers, William Dean Howells

Hundreds Of Literary and Cinematic Works Just Entered The Public Domain. Which One Should We Butcher First?

Education NON-FICTION

They Don’t Need No Education

January 23, 2019January 23, 2019 L.B. Deyo 0 Comments Bret Weinstein, Evergreen State College, Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling Of The American Mind

‘The Coddling Of The American Mind’: Young Totalitarians in Training

FICTION TELEVISION

The Goode Vampire

January 22, 2019January 23, 2019 Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell 0 Comments A Discovery Of Witches, Deborah Harkness, Matthew Goode, Teresa Palmer

In ‘A Discovery Of Witches,’ Matthew Goode Makes the Nerd Girls Swoon

Memoir NON-FICTION

Richard Lloyd’s Memoir: a Thing of Real Beauty and Light

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019 Ken Kurson 0 Comments CBGBs, Everything is combustible, Hilly Kristal, Jimi Hendrix, Richard Lloyd, Television

‘Everything Is Combustible’ Puts You Inside the Unique Mind of a Musical Master

CREATORS NON-FICTION

How Does Michael Lewis Do That?

January 21, 2019January 21, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Lawrence Wright, Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk

In ‘The Fifth Risk,’ He’s Smarter Than You, Again

FILM

It’s Jobe’z World, We Just Do Drugs In It

January 21, 2019January 21, 2019 John Everhart 0 Comments Jason Grisell, Jobe'z World, Michael M. Bilandic, Theodore Bouloukos

New Yorkers So Zonked, They Might As Well Be Replikants

CREATORS Poetry Remembrance Writers

A Mary Oliver Morning in New Jersey

January 19, 2019January 21, 2019 Rebecca Kurson 0 Comments Dream Work, Mary Oliver

Remembering the Pulitzer-winning poet who wrote of things around us

DOCUMENTARY FILM Netflix

Trial By Fyre

January 18, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Billy McFarland, Fyre Festival, Ja Rule, The Greatest Party That Never Happened

Netflix’s Fyre Festival Documentary Marks the End of Influencer Culture

FILM

Women on the Verge of a Financial Breakdown

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments

For ‘The Heiresses,’ it’s Their Way or the Paraguay

Netflix TELEVISION

All These Rabbits in ‘Watership Down’ Look The Same

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 Elijah Pollack 1 Comment James McCoy, John Boyega, Nicholas Hoult, Rosamund Like, Watership Down

And They All Have British Accents

FILM

Your ‘Glass’ is Ass

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Bruce Willis, Glass, James McAvoy, M. Night Shyamalan, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson

More Pretentious (Though Kinda Interesting) Meta-Superhero Ramblings from M. Night Shyamalan

CLASSICS CREATORS FILM Writers

Before ‘Vice,’ There Was ‘Viva Villa’

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments Adam McKay, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, David O. Selznick, Howard Hawks, Vice, Viva Villa, Wallace Beery

Ben Hecht and the Art of the Takedown Biopic

TELEVISION

The Absurd Office Culture of ‘Corporate’

January 16, 2019January 16, 2019 Mia McCullough 0 Comments Aparna Nancherla, Comedy Central, Corporate, Hampton DeVille, Jake Weisman, Lance Reddick, Matt Ingebretson, Pat Bishop

Season 2 is Just as Hilariously Weird as the First

FICTION Young Adult

Survivors’ Guilt 101

January 16, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Courtney Stevens, Four Three Two One

Teen Novel Explores the Aftermath of an Explosion

FICTION

Kristen Roupenian Hates You

January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Cat Person, Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

The Literary Debut Of The Year™ is Sour, Cruel, and Misanthropic

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