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...plays several of the myriad versions of Anne, agrees with Stone on the essential lack of a central character. “A lot of the scenes are not character-driven but are driven by imagery, so a lot of the focus is on the imagery that the text evokes as opposed to the relationships between the characters,” she says...
...text plods on, the poem collapses under the weight of its interminable references. The writing is always dense, but seldom beautiful. The polysyllabic scientific terms, forgotten place names, and global cultural figures with which Alexander litters his opus ensure that the poetry is characterized by mechanical coldness, not joy or pathos. At one point, the narrator describes himself as “stunningly wrought powerless by my sudden lexical commingling.” It is a moment of wonderfully unintentional irony...
...beauty of “Interviews” is the ease with which Krasinski’s cast makes Wallace’s almost untouched text spring to life, highlighting the rhythm of the short stories and giving each narrator a distinctive personality. One scene which occurs outside the interview room involves a conversation between two businessmen, which perfectly tunes Wallace’s prose to their bitten-off speech patterns. Test Subject #3 (Christopher Meloni) brings a bitterly funny tale to life when he launches into the colorful story of seeing a girl crying on the ground at Dayton...
...Ashekian, a 31-year-old Canadian tourist, arrived in Hong Kong on Nov. 9, 2008, traveling solo. After spending the night at a guesthouse in Chungking Mansions, a famously shabby tenement building, she text-messaged her niece to wish her a happy birthday and withdrew money from an ATM across the harbor. After that, Ashekian vanished...
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