Greg Cwik

Pretentious Wordsmith. Reverse Shot, Bookforum, Southwest Review, LARB, Lit Hub, Brooklyn Rail, etc. And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

For @LAReviewofBooks I wrote about William H. Gass's The Tunnel, one of the great American novels. I worked very hard on this. Thank you to Annie!
https://t.co/Uife2TE7gq

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

"Bart the Lover" is so funny, sad, beautiful.

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I can't afford NY and don't care about how much people who can afford it love living there. I would love it too if I had money.

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

Sometimes all I want from a TV show is hot people making jokes.

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@pourfairelevide How could anyone be a hater

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

One of the best of the decade

[pakejanek @pakejanek]

the house that jack built is the most evil movie i’ve ever seen

[ONTOLOGICALLYEVIL! @TMBTalkingHeads]

4 starts for obsession 1/2 for eraserhead you belong in the movie gulag

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

Vollmann's The Dying Grass is ... not easy reading.

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

I think you learn more from a good critic than a mediocre professor personally.

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

O'Neill for the role he played in the clubhouse

[SleeperYankees @SleeperYankees]

Would you rather have 1998 Paul O’Neill or 2005 Gary Sheffield in the 2027 Yankees lineup?

Regular-season stats:

O’Neill: .317 AVG | 24 HR | 116 RBI | .882 OPS
Sheffield: .291 AVG | 34 HR | 123 RBI | .891 OPS

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

I miss visiting my Grandparents in Brooklyn in the '90s when it was still affordable and everyone had that beautiful Brooklyn accent. Which I slightly inherited from my Dad.

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

My second-favorite Tarantino, after Jackie Brown.

[Immortalis (☥𝐃𝐁) @ImmortalisDB]

Death Proof (2007) Vanessa Ferlito's dance scene..

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@tnyfrontrow That's how real baseball people should feel. But the series is "rigged." Or so I've read.

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

This is the kind of game that real baseball-lovers (not a team's fans) love; it's why I still hate the ghost runner (though I get why it saves arms over the course of a season); I don't care who wins the game or this Series, it's just beautiful baseball.

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

Vollmann's Europe Central has more impressive film history and criticism (concerning primarily Roman Karmen) than most actual film writing. It's incredible.

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

Focus less on what movies are appropriate to show a kid and more on making your kids read.

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

I love Harold Bloom. Sorry.

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

Amazing episode

[The Twilight Zone @TheNightGallery]

The October 27, 1971 episode of Night Gallery features:

— "A Question of Fear" (a man accepts a $15,000 bet that he won't spend a night in a haunted house)
— "The Devil is Not Mocked" (a short "vampires vs. Nazis" story)

On disc: https://t.co/dkqrQrLk3N

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

Leatherface (2017) is a really solid movie, considering how pointless its existence is.

[Greg Cwik @cwik_greg]

The 2022 Texas Chainsaw Massacre is bad, but it's hard not to enjoy young rich kids getting slaughtered.