In our morning reading: an interview with Hanif Abdurraqib, new fiction by Mark Doten, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Joan Didion Remembered, Meredith Westgate on Books, Craig Taborn’s Latest, and More
In our afternoon reading: a remembrance of Joan Didion, thoughts on Craig Taborn’s new album, and more.
Morning Bites: NBCC Award Winners, Steph Post Interviewed, Charlie Jane Anders’s Recommendations, João Gilberto Noll, and More
In our morning reading: the NBCC Award winners, Steph Post interviewed, thoughts on a newly-translated novel by João Gilberto Noll, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Ottessa Moshfegh Interviewed, Jordy Rosenberg, Masha Gessen Nonfiction, Stefan Zweig, and More
In our afternoon reading: interviews with Ottessa Moshfegh and Jordy Rosenberg, adapting Stefan Zweig for the screen, and more.
When Familial and Cinematic Histories Meet: A Review of Simon Roy’s “Kubrick Red”
Few books walk the space inhabited by Simon Roy’s Kubrick Red. At once obsessive, dark, philosophical, academic, and touching, Kubrick Red is a bizarre memoir that manages to deconstruct and celebrate Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining while laying out the hardest moments of Roy’s life as well as the continuing impact the film has had in his life. The result is a book that jumps from childhood memories to scene analyses to hybrid/experimental literary territory to coping with the loss of […]
Jack Kirby, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and the Cosmic Film/Cosmic Comic Overlap
Today on The Dissolve, Noel Murray takes a long look at one of the more intriguing cultural convergences of the last few decades: namely, the fact that Jack Kirby adapted 2001: A Space Odyssey for comics.
Stanley Kubrick: Chess Hustler
Check out Jeremy Bernstein’s piece at the New York Review of Books blog: “Playing Chess With Kubrick”. Kubrick explained that early in his career he too played chess for money in the park and that Duval was so weak that it was hardly worth playing him. I said that we should play some time and then left the apartment. I was quite sure that we would never play. I was wrong.
Some Videos About a Book About a Film That was Never Made
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