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Who is Bernard Herrmann?
The name Bernard Herrmann may not be as familiar as Aaron Copland or Samuel Barber, but you’d know his music instantly. Some of it—the shrieking strings from Psycho’s shower scene, for instance—is as...
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Rushdie Is Bored, Pynchon Goes Public
The creator of publishing tumblr Real Talk has unmasked herself! It’s GOOD magazine executive editor Ann Friedman. Salman Rushdie pronounces Middlemarch boring. A great what-if: Bond by Hitchcock. The...
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Browbeaten: The Eyebrow
My first “boyfriend” broke up with me at camp in a letter that read, “You look like the girl from Planet of the Apes—I mean the ape she played, not the girl who played her.” He meant Helena Bonham...
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Psychos, Pencils, and Fines
This terrific German blog gives the pencil its due (and, perhaps, then some). In a time when e-books outsell their paper counterparts, NPR wonders whether cover design is a dying art. In a gesture of...
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W. H. Auden’s Potent Syllabus, and Other News
Light reading. Image via More Than 95 Theses W. H. Auden was a professor at the University of Michigan for the 1941–42 academic year. His course was called Fate and the Individual in European...
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The Vegetated Sound Buffer of Your Dreams, and Other News
A rendering from Studio Dror. Photo via Slate.Three Little Ghosts, from 1922, was one of Hitchcock’s earliest films—but it survives only in a Soviet edition, with Russian intertitles. It fell to Anna...
View ArticleHemingway’s Antlers Returned, and Other News
A photo posted by aspentimes (@aspentimes) on Aug 10, 2016 at 11:51am PDTTry to stay calm, everyone, but I have some very exciting news: it’s about Hemingway’s antlers. Back in 1964, Hunter S....
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Master of Light
Cinematographer Roger Deakins uses his blog to pull back the curtain on the lighting tricks that have made him famous. Roger Deakins, 2004, via Buena Vista. Sometime in the late nineties,...
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Master of Light
We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2017. Enjoy your holiday! Roger Deakins, 2004, via Buena Vista. Sometime in the late nineties, the cinematographer...
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Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe
Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds, 1963, still from a color film, 119 minutes. In 1849, when twenty-seven-year-old Gustave Flaubert left Paris for his life-changing trip abroad, his homeland was in the...
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Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe
We’re away until January 2, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2018. Enjoy your holiday! Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds, 1963, still from a color film, 119 minutes. In 1849, when...
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Rushdie Is Bored, Pynchon Goes Public
The creator of publishing tumblr Real Talk has unmasked herself! It’s GOOD magazine executive editor Ann Friedman. Salman Rushdie pronounces Middlemarch boring. A great what-if: Bond by Hitchcock. The...
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Browbeaten: The Eyebrow
My first “boyfriend” broke up with me at camp in a letter that read, “You look like the girl from Planet of the Apes—I mean the ape she played, not the girl who played her.” He meant Helena Bonham...
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Psychos, Pencils, and Fines
This terrific German blog gives the pencil its due (and, perhaps, then some). In a time when e-books outsell their paper counterparts, NPR wonders whether cover design is a dying art. In a gesture of...
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W. H. Auden’s Potent Syllabus, and Other News
Light reading. Image via More Than 95 Theses W. H. Auden was a professor at the University of Michigan for the 1941–42 academic year. His course was called Fate and the Individual in European...
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The Vegetated Sound Buffer of Your Dreams, and Other News
A rendering from Studio Dror. Photo via Slate. Three Little Ghosts, from 1922, was one of Hitchcock’s earliest films—but it survives only in a Soviet edition, with Russian intertitles. It fell to Anna...
View ArticleHemingway’s Antlers Returned, and Other News
A photo posted by aspentimes (@aspentimes) on Aug 10, 2016 at 11:51am PDT Try to stay calm, everyone, but I have some very exciting news: it’s about Hemingway’s antlers. Back in 1964, Hunter S....
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Master of Light
Cinematographer Roger Deakins uses his blog to pull back the curtain on the lighting tricks that have made him famous. Roger Deakins, 2004, via Buena Vista. Sometime in the late nineties, the...
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Master of Light
We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2017. Enjoy your holiday! Roger Deakins, 2004, via Buena Vista. Sometime in the late nineties, the cinematographer...
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Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe
Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds, 1963, still from a color film, 119 minutes. In 1849, when twenty-seven-year-old Gustave Flaubert left Paris for his life-changing trip abroad, his homeland was in the...
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