the meaning of christmas is being 4 shazams deep at your parents’ house and forced to face the fact that you love steely dan, you’ve always loved steely dan
Hey all, before your #AWP24 dance cards get filled up, heads up that I'll be schillin' BULL & Drevlow books at table T1109 with @kurtbaumeister and @713Books. Then I'll be doing the @TailwindsPress /@CowboyJamboree reading on Thurs 7PM @ Farewell Coffee & Booze.
@petravoncant The Saragossa Manuscript (Has)
The Round-Up (Jancso)
Sweet Movie (Makavejev)
Bad Timing (Roeg)
Devils at the Doorstep (Jiang)
Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul)
Personally, I don't think you have to 'care' about fictional characters at all.
The most important thing about a novel is the writing. Nothing else matters. Certainly not 'politics'.
'We just travestied a masterpiece about the vicissitudes of consumerism, now let's really lean in and sell the fuck out by making a movie to hawk a toy because we're true hacks.''