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How Imagination Grows
Friday November 13, 2009
There’s something to be said for a purge of one’s belongings every decade or so. Well, at least every fifteen or twenty years. The latter is how long papers had been accumulating in my files when a rearrangement of my home office forced me to purge them. Going through the dozen drawers of....
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Good Letters
Thursday November 12, 2009
Whatever doubts some writers have about the value of blogging—such as those stated here—can be assuaged by emphasizing the continuity between writing blog posts and writing essays. I’ve always thought that the best way to conceive of a blog post is as an essay in embryo—as an initial sketch or....
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She Says It’s All Right
Wednesday November 11, 2009
One exciting thing about loving the music of the 1990s is that my favorite bands keep getting back together. They disappear for a while, bewildered by the new pop landscape from which MTV, CDs, and super-thick, chorus-heavy, distorted guitars have gone, and then re-emerge on the other side of the century, fresh-faced and....
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Why the Wild Things Are
Tuesday November 10, 2009
By the time Max shouted “Let the wild rumpus start!” on opening day of Where the Wild Things Are, a rumpus was already raging among the film’s critics. Reviewers have been roaring and beating their chests in debate. Were director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Dave Eggers faithful enough to....
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Above Calcutta
Monday November 9, 2009
The summer before you died, I hid on the roof in Tollygunge. I walked part of the way home from Sudder Street and by the time I got to the apartment building where I was staying, the sooty red sunset had spent itself. Dusk sifted in the quarter’s dim air, and from the park by the main road a wedding feast’s....
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