Absolutely the top priority!

Thanks!

Not as close as I’d like to you but I’ll try!

I can't say I've learned Norwegian yet, though I did watch Richard Ayode spend a day there.

Who needs sunlight!?

Start of letter awarding me a Fulbright to Oslo

Is now a good time to announce I won a Fulbright Scholar grant? I’ll be in Oslo in the fall, baby!

Researchers May Have Found the Antidote to Social Media Brain Rot: Experimental Film USCB scientists discovered that watching just seven minutes can open your mind and enhance creativity.

Science: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

If you’re in NYC and can see Rocky Horror, it is a ROMP! So. Much. Fun. (Stunning lighting design, too.)

Fantastic!

I've said for years that admins encouraged interdisciplinarity in the 90s/00s as a way to install programs, precisely because they lack departmental sovereignty.

Wow!! Huge congrats!!! Well deserved!!!

Oh, you used a referenceless "it" instead of "I"? By jove! You've must be delivering objective truth!!

Those in the humanities that shun the first-person in their scholarship have deeply internalized shame that the sciences are more culturally respected.

It is!

Fair point. Though I voted for Carol. 😏

Absolutely.

If you pick Wonder Boys over Much Ado just block me now.

What is the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years? If you’re a Lit Hub reader, there’s a good chance you have a few opinions about literary adaptations. Some are great. Many are bad. Others are frankly offensive (Ghibli’s Earthsea, I’m looking at y…

Voting in Lit Hub's Best Adaptation bracket was easy peasy until the very last choice: Arrival vs. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Brutal choice!
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Happy to report that The Drama is a real movie. The soundscape alone gives you plenty to ponder. And it's kinda fun to think about the idea that doing something bad, and then moving on, makes you a more interesting person.

Headstone bemoaning loss of life during war.

I’m in New Haven early before a talk at Yale and wandering a cemetery. So fucking brutal reading things like this today.

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

My mother, Audrey Hepburn: the star’s son Sean on her movies, marriages, good works and fascist parents The heroine of Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany’s knew war and poverty, riches and fame, love and betrayal – yet claimed to have lived a ‘terribly boring’ life. Sean Hepburn Ferrer paints a very...

For today's Guardian G2 I interviewed Sean Hepburn Ferrer, son of the great Audrey Hepburn, about her remarkable life, talent and legacy www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

this is what actual literature discourse is like now

Ugh. That's ridiculous.

Issue 120: Trans Cinema June 2023

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

We've just unlocked our Trans Cinema issue from 2023, guest edited by poet Spencer Williams. It is now (and forever!) entirely free.

We have absolutely no interest in dictating what a film "actually means."

There’s a lot to love about Charlie Kaufman’s How to Shoot a Ghost. Love when short films deliver more aesthetic nourishment than two-hour ones. The idea that figures on screen are ghost-like, or that we are haunting film worlds as we watch, isn’t new, but he gives it such a beautiful treatment.

Dems are using homophobia (or, at best, fear of coming out) as their central campaign strategy, from CA to SC. They’re carrying the Overton Window like two guys trying to install a pane of glass in a Peter Bogdanovich movie.

Though maybe I, too, want 8 dinners a night. Hmm.

Starting to worry about some online recipe writers. They have about 50 different dinners that are "so good" that they make them "several times a week."