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...hardest thing is when you have a new idea while writing something else. Sometimes, I take the adulterous route and write a short story—the equivalent to a literary fling. Certain stories just seize you and you feel compelled to go write them,” he said...
...much has transpired since 1999. For one thing, four of five Pavement albums have been reissued as two-disc behemoths to welcome effect by Matador, the band’s longtime record label. Each reissue has been an exquisite treasure trove, packed with beautiful artwork and liner notes, live tracks and rarities, and previously unreleased material. From EPs to Peel Sessions to the songs they recorded for Cartoon Network’s “Space Ghost Coast to Coast,” the reissues have witnessed Pavement at their funniest (“Harness Your Hopes”), their...
...narrative alternates between May’s story of increasing isolation and frustration with the police department, and testimony from various witnesses who saw the same thing happen to Szajkowski. As the petty bullying adds up, it is not difficult to see the underlying reason for the book’s title and its main characters’ drastic actions...
...based on real life events from Jepsen’s life and childhood: “It’s really from an 11 year-old boy’s perspective. The dysfunctional family in our film has really existed. And I think it’s a good thing for people who had a trauma and a deep, deep secret that they can’t bear living with, to get that story told...
Granted, it is no secret that the rich are difficult to understand. In fact, the only thing that can really be said with any certainty about them is what the narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Rich Boy” tells us in the second sentence of the story. “They are very different from you and me,” he says...