Donuts and secrets are on the menu this Christmas Eve in Hollywood. In its initial synopsis, Sean Baker’s Tangerine (2015) comes across a touch experimental and niche, “A working girl…
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Lo que les dijo el licántropo / What the Werewolf Told Them by Chely Lima, trans. Margaret Randall May 2017 – The Operating System Be very afraid of the…
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Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…
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A Curriculum Of The Soul, Volume One and Two edited by John Clarke and Albert Glover Spuyten Duyvil, Roots & Branches Series, 2016 456 pages, 440 pages – Amazon /…
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In the Trees by John Peck Caspian Depression Games, 2017 Caspian Depression Made with Twine In the Trees self-identifies thus: “In the Trees is a classic text adventure, created in Twine…
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Tree Talks by Wendy Burk Delete Press, 2016 76 pages – Delete Press Phantom Hour by James Meetze Ahsahta Press, 2016 96 pages – Ahsahta Press It seems unbelievable…
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Even into the 21st Century the people of France continue their disdain for their last Queen, Marie Antoinette, more colloquially known as Madame Déficit. When Sofia Coppola’s contemporary rendering of…
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Nostalgia is a powerful manipulator. Whether it’s the latest Star Wars or superhero retread or yet another video game sequel, nostalgia is big business. But who exactly wants to go…
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Without affirmative calm or resolution, The Sweet Hereafter (1997) departs much in the same way as it arrives. Adapted from a book and based on true events, this multi-layered account…
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LiteratureReviewLittle Labors by Rivka Galchen (or, as I prefer to say it Rivka Galchen reminded me why I had just one baby)
Little Labors by Rivka Galchen New Directions, May 2016 96 pages – New Directions / Amazon I find it easier to explain what this book is not, than…
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There hasn’t been a time I was less at home in my own body than when I was a teenager. Breasts sprouted, full of possibility that would never be realized.…
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300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso Graywolf Press, 2017 104 pages – Graywolf / Amazon “Sometimes a single sentence can be enough to fill the imagination completely.” 300 Arguments by Sarah…
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Nocilla Experience by Agustín Fernández Mallo Translated by Thomas Bunstead Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2016 200 pages – Fitzcarraldo / Amazon 1 SEAN CARROLL: When you actually do fall through the event…
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Seeing Red, by Lina Meruane, translated by Megan McDowell Deep Vellum Publishing, February 2016 170 pages – Deep Vellum Publishing / Amazon They say that when you go…
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