Tag: LIT CRIT
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Going Negative:
The Social Ramifications of Media Criticism Shortly before Birdman won best picture, I was ranting on Facebook about how I find the films of Alejandro Inarritu to be pretentious and self-serious. I also used the word bloviated. This provoked some ire amongst my friendly acquaintances, and some playful verbal fencing online. A couple of wasted…
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I Spent Sixteen Months of My Childhood Locked in a Basement and No One will Publish My Memoir.
Yes, I forgive my mother for the trauma she put me through. That was part of the process of writing the book. Anger? Sure, I have anger, I hurt, but mostly I am upset at Harper Collins for saying they were going to publish the book and then dropping it six months later after those…
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Double Penetration
Amis takes his humor seriously, and perhaps this is a good working definition of what wit is: humor applied with seriousness, instead of silliness a straight face. The ability to keep straight face, Amis says, is one of the prerequisites of porn. Porn stars are “very bad at acting,” but very good at “keeping a…
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i’m exhausted from the fear of existing while black
Ibram X Kendi, Ijeoma Oluo, W.E. Dubois, James Baldwin, Alec Baldwin, Tony Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Chinua Achebe, Trevor Noah, Ta Nehisi Coates, ?uestlove, Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Dr. Wayne Dyer. I carry their words everywhere I go, in hardcover. I want the weight of their life experience to add to the weight of my…
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A Damnable Peck
Cormac McCarthy is the best writer has ever lived a true artist I told him and I won’t stand for no of this race class gender analysis of this story I told the kid. I flicked the tip of his tongue sticking out his eye socket with the tip of my tongue.