A daily record of all of the books and movies and films and novels and short stories and even television shows (occasionally) that I read or watched collected into a monthly report.
Greatest hits of September undoubtedly include Curzio Malaparte's unfinished novel "The Kremlin Ball"; they do NOT include watching "Jaws 2"…
Kept reading The Overstory" and should have finished it. Started "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993-99), which has been a…
Greatest hits: the Netflix Ripley series, "Blood and Wine" with Jack Nicholson, "Geology: A Very Short Introduction." Lowest lows: "The…
Greatest Hits: Everett's "Erasure," Zweig's "Mary, Queen of Scots," "Code Inconnu." Lowest Lows: "S.W.A.T." (2003). Ouch.
During May I consumed so much Stefan Zweig, Nikolai Gogol, but also "Crime Wave" and "The Insider" and even "La…
The highnotes: The Letter (1940), Hobson's Choice (1954), Stefan Zweig, Henrik Ibsen. The lownotes: The Matrix (1999) and its progency,…
David Graeber's "The Utopia of Rules," Michael Haneke's "Funny Games," Ida Lupino in "Women's Prison." Is it too late to…
The so-called Glaciation Trilogy and the only Hamaguchi film I hadn't seen, as well as David Graeber's "Utopia of Rules"
Greatest hits of January 2023: The Manchurian Candidate, Austerlitz, Blood Meridian, King Lear, and The Long Good Friday
Greatest hits include the 1942 film "The Glass Key" and the 1993 film "Groundhog Day" and reading Schelling and reading…