Unlike most of our blockbusters, “Dune” (2021) takes risks and should more than earn our respect as armchair film critics. Check out my “Dune” review on Medium: “Bad reviews are the mind-killer.”
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This week’s entry in “The Cyprus Files” explores a different angle: the Kafkaesque bureaucratic measures required to temporarily live in Cyprus; i.e., what I’ve been up to largely over the last few months.
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I’m proud to publish my first essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books, a review of Lynne Sachs’ new documentary, “Film About a Father Who,” now available on the Criterion Channel.
“Film About a Father Who” raises tough questions about what it means for a filmmaker to make a documentary about their own problematic father.
The essay can be found in the “BLARB” section. Thanks so much for reading!
This week in The Usonian, check out my latest newsletter interview, this time with the amazingly talented writer and literary translator Lin King. We talk about her writing process, working with time in narrative, and her much-lauded short story, “Appetite”!
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Thrilled to once again appear on the excellent “Film at Fifty” podcast alongside Nick from Renegade Film Theory just in time for spooky season.
This time we discuss David Lynch’s masterpiece, “Mulholland Drive,” and we really unpack THAT espresso scene.
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Check out the second installment of “The Cyprus Files,” my series of posts reflecting on Cyprus and my Fulbright year on the island.
This week’s post narrates a dramatic tale of the Crusades and how it illuminates the eclectic influences on the Cypriot built environment.
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I just published the first issue of The Cyprus Files, the new channel of my Substack newsletter dedicated to my Fulbright experiences and observations from the divided island nation in the Mediterranean. The introductory post gives a brief overview of Cypriot history and its present context.
Stay tuned and subscribe as I bring you a little closer to one of the cradles of civilization—and one of the most complex geopolitical situations in the modern world.
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In this week’s Usonian newsletter, I interview Shannon K. Winston about her new poetry anthology, “The Girl Who Talked to Paintings,” published by Glass Lyre Press. Winston’s collection focuses on ekphrasis, the poetry which finds inspiration from and reacts to other artworks.
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An MFA is a useful pursuit for those interested in a writing career. Here are 5 things I learned from my MFA, in a front-page post on “Start it Up,” one of Medium’s largest publications.
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This week in the latest issue of my newsletter, The Usonian, I talk to author Tiffany Cates about her recent literary mystery novel, “M-Theory” from Baobab Press. You can also enter for a chance to win a copy of the novel if you fill out a Google Form embedded in the article by Wednesday, September 8.
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