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  • Screenplays as Literature

    Posted on September 20, 2011 | 10 Comments
    “Novelists, poets and playwrights make literature; screenwriters make changes.” So jokes Scott Burns in a recent column titled “From Script to Screen with ‘Contagion,'” appearing in the 9-10-11 Wall Street Journal.   But, in spiteof Burns,  do any of you read screenplays as if they […]

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  • Banned

    Posted on December 7, 2010 | 23 Comments
    Some conservative religious communities build bonfires or try to get books banned from public libraries, Mormons censor themselves.

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  • 15 Favorite …

    Posted on November 2, 2010 | 15 Comments
    Personally, I'm a sucker for these lists. I seem to be constitutionally incapable of resisting them, even though they're hardly ever revelatory.

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  • Pink Packard Hood

    Forgotten

    Posted on October 9, 2010 | 34 Comments
    Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul laments Humbert Humbert. The recollection of Lolita draws Nabokov’s unreliable narrator far back in time as the middle-aged man, now grown old with memories, paints a portrait that pleads for pity and argues […]

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