Seeing a movie by oneself is always, for me, magical. I regard it as a religious observance, and I guess doubly so when the movie is so religiously themed, as was The Coen Brother’s latest film, A Serious Man. The Book of Job is my favorite book in the bible, and possibly my favorite piece [...]
I think I may have just read the most baffling short story of all time: The Nose, by Nikolai Gogol. Leave it to those damn 19th century Russian authors to name all of their characters “Ivan” and make them do incomprehensible things, completely baffling my otherwise sensible Wednesday afternoon. It happened thusly. I had some [...]
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Things MFA graduate students are good at: Writing perfectly crafted text messages to one another, a symphony of mystery, intrigue, flirtation mixed with aloof detachment dosed out in perfect proportion to the situation. We are all lyrical wizards, and it’s frightening sometimes, they way we misuse our power. What I’m trying to say is that [...]
My graduate studies in creative writing leaves me no time to write blog updates. Creatively. Let us not dwell on the absurdity of that statement and instead move on to other unpleasantries. I’m beginning to see why I’m the only person I know who posts their stories on the Internet. It’s because we’re supposed to [...]
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