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7/30/25
A Visit to the Museum of Modern Art Part I
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Who’s Your MoMa? Part I Picasso: Girl Before a Mirror, 1932 In a recent trip to New York City all thoughts of spending time ...
7/25/25
Train Dreams: The Real "Wild" West in Novella Form
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Train Dreams (2011) By Denis Johnson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 116 pages. ★★★★ What a good idea! Farrar, Straus and Giro...
7/23/25
Ragnar Jonasson's Gripping New Mystery Tale
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Writer By Ragnar Jónasson Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press, 320 pages. ★★★★ In 1926, mystery wri...
7/21/25
Devil in a Blue Dress: Worth Seeing but a Better Read
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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) Directed by Carl Franklin Sony Pictures Releasing, 102 minutes, R (violence, language, brief nudit...
7/18/25
A Look Back at National Lampoon
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2010) By Rick Meyerowitz Harry N. Abrams Publishing, 320 pages. ★★★ In my book on the Marx...
7/16/25
Red Clay: Black and White in Alabama
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Red Clay (2025) By Charles Francher Blackstone, 338 pages. ★★★★ Red Clay is a multigenerational tale of slavery and i...
7/14/25
Is Anora Pornography?
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Anora (2024) Directed by Sean Baker Neon Films, 139 minutes, R (strippers, extensive sex, nudity, language) ★ I’m not a...
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