Because I’m a fan of nuance, allow me to complicate my recent treatises on my preferred brand of art.
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Author: Steven Strauss
Useless
Remember when I wrote about the uselessness of subjective declarations of artistic taste?
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‘A’ is for Apple
Remember when I wrote about frameworks?
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FYCD
What do Being a Human Person, Val, and The Sparks Brothers have in common?
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What’s in a Genre?
Does it matter whether or not The French Dispatch is considered an anthology?
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As the Terminator Promised…
If you do something every day, and then you stop doing that something for a period of time, the intervening intermission can have a distancing effect that provides space to reconsider what you were doing before.
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Slipstream
Becoming Cousteau being released on the same day as The French Dispatch: coincidence or marketing slipstream?
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Start the Presses
Extra, read all about it: Write All Nite’s breaking into the breaking news game!!!
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We’re Going Clubbing
A Write All Nite book club would meet to discuss the book *while* we’re reading it.
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Sun of God
There’s a common refrain that, if Jesus re-graced the Earth with his presence today, instead of igniting the firestorm of controversy that greeted his first foray and that of other self-proclaimed prophets (Joan of Arc anyone? Joseph Smith? Etc.), present-day humanity would completely ignore him, too distracted by contemporary life’s endless cornucopia of nonstop bells-and-whistles to properly appreciate the Messiah in our midst.
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