Happy Monday, everyone... Gird your loins, I started a Substack: it's called TWO HATS!
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@matthiasellis When you say "people," do you mean acting teachers (Stella Adler? Lee Strasberg?) or, like, normies? I have a feeling it started in the drama schools, but I could be wrong.
"The oeuvre of every great poet is a canon unto itself, and Bloom’s ideal required an authoritative canon of canons."
Alex Lanz on Harold Bloom and the context of "The Man Who Read Everything": https://t.co/ZRSEiSGkKr
"The pleasures and practice of poetry exist in the world, even if our pens do not always draw lines around it."
Frank Falisi reviews Kent Jones's film "Late Fame": https://t.co/tTpLRFK9Sx
"As Bloom said to John Ashbery after this quarrel, 'I am maturing as a writer, but seeing also that I will wither rather than mature emotionally.'"
Alex Lanz on "The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom": https://t.co/ZRSEiSGkKr
@Jacob_Brogan Compromise: it's both. Miles comes in with a particular expectation of what country life and its people will be, and then he finds an opportunity to get lost in the best of all ways (by quitting academia).
@Jacob_Brogan Okay... for me?... it's because both books are about the category of the "country person" is made up, a cultural invention rather than a real actual thing you might find IN THE WILD (or that what you find isn't at all like the influencers or academics say...)
Two Oscar-nominated actors. One of the most consequential cases in American memory.
Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen star as Patsy and John Ramsey in The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey. Premiering December 10.
My new post on Coyote vs. Acme, May December, and whose pain is funniest went live this AM on Substack -- please check it out and, if you like it, please subscribe (it's free) --
https://t.co/iNV9Nkl9un
Before Emerald Fennell's adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" was released, an editor commissioned an essay from me on it. It was later killed. For months, I wasn't sure what, if anything, to do with it. Today I decided to publish it in my newsletter:
https://t.co/f4l3f0lhJg
My new post on Coyote vs. Acme, May December, and whose pain is funniest went live this AM on Substack -- please check it out and, if you like it, please subscribe (it's free) --
https://t.co/iNV9Nkl9un