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Back to the Future
Bodies and Minds
Books You Should Read
Close Reading
beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way
Writing
Lindsey Freeman
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October 12, 2020
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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
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February 9, 2020
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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
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January 12, 2015
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“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
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October 7, 2014
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
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September 30, 2014
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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
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June 12, 2014
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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