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One-Season Wonders (by Laura Orem)
Back in the day, before the Internet and five million cable channels and YouTube and Netflix, television viewers were pretty much at the mercy of network programmers. Of which there were then three: ABC,…
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Ozu3 by Lewis Saul
Today: *36. Hitori musuko (The Only Son) (9/15/36) (87 min.) [Sound B&W] [buy it here]*37. Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka (What Did the Lady Forget?) (3/3/37) (73 min.) [Sound B&W] [buy it here]*38. Todake no…
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Happy birthday, John Keats [by David Lehman]
Poor Keats. A Scorpio with Virgo rising and, just to clinch the deal, his moon in Gemini. This is the equivalent of being dealt the Fool, the Lovers (inverted), and the Tower as the…
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Ozu2 by Lewis Saul
Today: *29. Dekigokoro (Passing Fancy) (9/17/33) (101 min.) [Silent B&W] [buy it here]*30. Haha wo kowazuya (A Mother Should Be Loved) (5/11/34) (93 min.) [Silent B&W] [buy it here]*31. Ukikusa monogatari (A Story of Floating…
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Chekhov on Critics, Advertising Men, Lawyers, Doctors, and Jerks
<<<Critics are like horse-flies rthat prevent the horse from ploughing. — Chekhov>>> He also said that stories should have neither a beginning nor an end — that advertising is the very essence of democracy…
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This just in: Northwestern University Press Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize
Brian Boudrey sends along this announcement: Northwestern University’s Poetry and Poetics Colloquium proudly announces a partnership with Northwestern University Press for the inaugural Drinking Gourd chapbook poetry prize, a first‐book award for poets of color.…
