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Keith Ridgway: “The Party”

May 17, 2021

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Keith Ridgway’s “The Party.”

Jean-Luc Godard: Masculin féminin

May 14, 2021

Recently The Criterion Collection released a Blu-ray upgrade of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1966 film Masculin féminin. While I have always struggled to embrace Godard’s work, this one got me in the right space.

Jack Spicer: After Lorca

May 13, 2021

Jack Spicer’s After Lorca is a wonderful collection of poetry, poetry in translation, and poetry theory. I loved it!

J.M. Holmes: “Children of the Good Book”

May 11, 2021

This week’s New Yorker fiction is J.M. Holmes’s “Children of the Good Book.”

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

May 7, 2021

Happy short story month! To celebrate

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