This should automatically send an email from Buttondown even though I've written and published the post on the original Funerals & Snakes site.
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The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, Milton Rokeach JR, William Gaddis Nobody Grew But the Business, Joseph Tabbi Pretty useful treatment of Gaddis here. The Madness of Crowds, Louise Penny…
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Zero Mostel in The Front (Bernstein and Ritt, 1976) I never met Walter Bernstein, the legendary screenwriter who died last night at the age of 101 —and while his passing…
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The rock critic Robert Christgau was, and remains, a skeptic of art rock, which was one of the things I took slight issue with as one of his teen…
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In 2011 I was commissioned by a home video label to contribute a booklet essay to its edition of Rouben Mamoulian's City Streets. The release was cancelled after it proved…
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Dulle Greit, Pieter Brughel the Elder, 1563 Those fleeing Spanish fascism were greeted by the fascism taking hold in France. Brecht saw that what was now taking shape no longer…
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