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There was no better reader than James Earl Jones. | Literary Hub | 11/09/24
James Earl Jones died on Monday at the age of 93, after a career filled with iconic performances, including in Star Wars, The Lion King, Roots, The Great White Hope...
Language, Love and Visibility: Looking Back on an Immigrant Childhood | Literary Hub | 13/09/24
In the years since this memoir was first published, readers have asked me a number of questions: What does your family think of the book? How did you start writing a memoir...
The Enduring Power of Peter Hujar’s “Portraits in Life and Death” | The New Yorker | 08/10/24
There’s a self-portrait that shows Peter Hujar mid-leap. The picture is taken in a room, presumably in Hujar’s own East Village loft—at a time, 1974, when it was hard to...
How a ‘National Family Secret in France’ Inspired Her Novel | The New York Times | 09/10/24
Cécile Desprairies’s novel, “The Propagandist,” is full of so many secrets that it’s a wonder she managed to write it at all.
In the first place, the book takes an...
What to See in the 2024 New York Film Festival’s Second Week | The New Yorker | 04/10/24
The New York Film Festival, like all worthwhile festivals, regularly offers the joyous surprise of distinctive new artistic voices, whether those of filmmakers who are just...
5 Halloween Film Festivals Worth Traveling For | The New York Times | 01/10/24
Watching weird indie horror movies at home on Tubi can be a bunch of fun. So can going to the local multiplex to see the latest scary Hollywood blockbuster with other...
