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...that it took me a very long time to finish the book.THC: Do you regret taking all that time to finish?KG: No, not really. I mean, a little bit, sure, a little bit. Part of the trouble in terms of the book—it’s sort of a young person’s book. Some of the early stories, as I was finishing it, were pretty far away from me. When they are written by a significantly younger person, it becomes very difficult to work with that material. But at the same time, having said that...
...attitude towards Celeste. When asked what happened to Celeste, he says “nothing,” and it’s true. The reader can’t get involved in this, can’t grow attached, and so, even though there is some sort of emotional trajectory written into the story and some sort of movement in the work, it feels as if there is none. The only real action that the reader experiences is the progression of thought. And this is the realm that Gessen is truly concerned about.“Literary Men?...
...like drone of ambient post-rock. The truth of this notion holds firm on M83’s fifth album, the dreamlike “Saturdays=Youth,” whose simultaneously sunny and spacey atmospheres buoy the album to stunning highs.Throughout the album, Gonzales hints at some sort of dramatic theme underlying all the layers of glassy synthesizers, and he anchors most of the tracks in beds of tonal allusion to the transatlantic dance pop of the mid-80s. In fact, most of the album’s tracks reek so heavily of excess that, after a first listen...
...responsible for everything that happens on stage.RR: Tell me a little about the plot.MS: So “Castaways” is about this group of 11 people who get stranded on a desert island. This one character named Brandon starts taking control of everyone and sort of asserts himself as the leader of their society. Then a young girl named Cassandra objects to his position as a dictator and as a result he kicks her out of the society. Cassandra gets involved with a group of natives and begins falling in love with one of them. Meanwhile, the castaways?...
...Knocked Up,” a project that reunited Segel and Apatow, he began collaborating on the writing of “Sarah Marshall” with Nick Stoller ’98, who also directed the film. “Me and Nick have developed a sort of a Peter Sellers, Blake Edwards type thing… partners in every sense of the word—except sexually,” he said. “We’ve known each other for almost ten years. He wrote my ‘Undeclared’ episodes and we?...