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beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way

Writing Lindsey Freeman - 0
For the past few months, I’ve been relying on David Lynch’s Los Angeles weather reports to help organize my days. I tune in every...
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Writing, Little Women’s Romance

Writing Briallen Hopper - 0
Why do we need yet another movie of Little Women? There are now five surviving feature film versions, an average of one every twenty...
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The One That Got Away: On Inherent Vice

Bodies and Minds Evan Kindley - 6
“Doc stroked his chin and gazed off into space for a while. ‘You know how some people say they have a ‘gut feeling’? Well, Shasta...
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Montana Noir

Close Reading Alice Bolin - 2
I moved to Los Angeles from Missoula, Montana, a sweet and scenic university town that is still remote enough to be inspiring, still small...
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The Pixies Film That Never Was

Books You Should Read Chris Barsanti - 0
Why did Black Francis take this long to write a graphic novel? Sure, he’s been busy of late with reunion tours of both the...
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“A filthy process in which I was engaged”: Revising Frankenstein

Books You Should Read Alison Kinney - 3
Terror, nausea, and the solitary slog of patching together cold, dead bodies in the workshop:  Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus created a...
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