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| It took me awhile to warm up to this play (and to figure out what the heck is going on) but from what I can tell, the death of his mother causes a liberal lawyer to take a hallucinatory trip down memory lane where he primarily encounters the three ot ...more | |
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| Although not as well known as "Roots" or "Gone with the Wind," Margaret Walker's saga could easily join their ranks. This tale of a light-skinned black woman who survives the nightmare of slavery before the Civil War as well as the tribulations that ...more | |
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| Oh, only one of the greatest novels ever written in the English language. Virginia Woolf's masterpiece positively gallops from start to finish, while relating middle-aged Reality as a kind of punishing, ecstatic state of self-awareness in which we're ...more | |
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| "The Winter's Tale" is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. I get into the heated jealousy driving Leontes' actions in the first act as well as the unstoppable indignation fueling Paulina's chastisement of her king in the second. But even more so, I ...more | |
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| This warmly told biography is a joyous examination of Gertrude Stein's life and legacy (with a nice extended section devoted to her partner Alice B. Toklas). As a longtime Stein enthusiast who's been repeatedly frustrated by other writers' snarky ins ...more | |
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| There's something exhilarating about the first act of Marina Carr's "Marble," suggesting it might be the latest in a line of electric dramas about dysfunctional hetero couples a la "Look Back in Anger," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." Yes, it's tha ...more | |
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| If you only know Paul Schrader as the brilliant screenwriter-director behind "American Gigolo," "Light Sleeper," and "Affliction," you're in for a treat with this passionate film theory book focused on three world-renowned auteurs with a spiritual be ...more | |
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Diabolically Good: The Movie Career and Afterlife of Horror Icon Vincent Price:
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| "Shoot!" is a slow read. But is that such a bad thing? Must every novel be a page-turner? It took me awhile to get through Pirandello's pseudo-journals of a cinematographer, who finds a fortune but not love, by turning the crank of a manual camera. T ...more | |