Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Classic Reads: A Web of Strange Happiness From George Eliot

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George Eliot, whose real name was Mary Ann Evans, loved rural society more than the urban areas of the time that she saw as pushed aside b...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015

Revisiting D.C.'s Newseum After Several Years Away

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Being a passionate journalist and communications professional, it's flat-out crazy that I don't visit the Newseum in Washington D...
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Friday, August 14, 2015

Academy Award Losers That You Should Still See

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Nebraska It takes a while to finally see any good in Bruce Dern's character in Nebraska, but there sure are a lot of laughs before we ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Thanks Again to Magnet Magazine For Giving Me All That Indie Rock

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The music rag  Magnet is my absolute favorite magazine in existence today. But one of its columnists, Andrew Earles , seems to have gone...
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Monday, July 13, 2015

Gravity is Surprisingly Good, Like a Better, Modern 2001: A Space Odyssey

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The benefit of having a 103-degree fever this week was that I had the time while lying in bed to watch Gravity , which turned into an unex...
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Monday, July 6, 2015

Classic Reads: Great Expectations May Be Unlikeable to Some, But It's My Favorite Dickens Novel

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens was one of the first great classic novels I remember reading. While the book does have its proble...
Friday, July 3, 2015

The Blueprint for Better Storytelling and Writing the Great American Novel

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I was recently reading  Secrets of Story: Well Told by screenwriter William C. Martell, and it relates to a talk I've been giving at co...

Classic Reads: Ibsen Ponders Whether Life Means Anything in Peer Gynt

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Peer Gynt is a man in Norwegian Henrik Ibsen 's 1867 play of the same name who is trying to discover whether he's a good modern m...
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

The Stones and the Holocaust Lead the Pack of Stuff You Should Watch Now

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I've been doing a lot more TV- and movie-watching lately than blogging. What have I liked and what has stunk, you ask? Crossfire Hur...
Saturday, June 6, 2015

Classic Reads: Don Quixote Goes Nuts ... and for the Jugular of Laughter

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Don Quixote became one of the greatest novels of all time even though Cervantes intended it to just be a bit of a joke about the over-the...
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