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NOTES ON LUIS BUÑUEL (AND JEANNE MOREAU AND CHARLIE CHAPLIN)
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Welcome to my Sea of Stories
“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.” – Jean-Luc Godard, film director
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My Favorite Literary Encounters: The Three Musketeers
When Umberto Eco’s second novel, Foucault’s Pendulum, was published in English, I reviewed it, and I must have been in an unusually bad mood, because I…
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The Ù
or, The Interpretation of Dreams
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The Seventh Wave. Episode 48.
Episode 48
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THE SEVENTH WAVE: An Introduction
Early last year, at the height of the “first wave” of the coronavirus pandemic, I began a long story called The Seventh Wave that was in part a way of…
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The Seventh Wave
An Entertainment in 51 Episodes
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The Seventh Wave. Episode 47.
Episode 47
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The Seventh Wave, Episode 44
This one's free to read. Five more to go!
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My Favorite Literary Encounters: 2012 PEN Awards for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence. Leonard Cohen and Chuck Berry.
This may be the most remarkable photograph I’ve ever been part of:
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Journalism as Literature: "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
One of the most interesting things about the creation of In Cold Blood is how quick off the mark Truman Capote was in his pursuit of this “true crime…
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The Seventh Wave. Episodes 45, 46.
A double helping to make up for last week's silence... also, it turns out there will be 51 episodes in total, not 49. Just FYI.
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