My husband wrote this movie, not me. I can’t really imagine writing a movie, personally. But he’s good at it. Won the audience appreciation award at the 48 Hour Film Project screening in Houston this week. It’s called Analog.

I’m on team Tender is the Night. I wish I had a copy with that cover on it. millionsmillions: “I used to feel that the novel output of Fitzgerald was like the literary version of the Myers Briggs test: whichever one a person favored was some fundamental indicator of his or her personality.  Roughly it followed that ordinary and banal people liked The Great Gatsby, snotty, effete types liked This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned was for the discerning and unconventional (I’ll let you guess in which camp I numbered myself).  Tender is the Night was sort of an unknown quantity, preferred by dramatic people, maybe, or people who take pills.” Modern Library Revue: #28 Tender is the Night by Lydia Kiesling High-res

I’m on team Tender is the Night. I wish I had a copy with that cover on it.

millionsmillions:

“I used to feel that the novel output of Fitzgerald was like the literary version of the Myers Briggs test: whichever one a person favored was some fundamental indicator of his or her personality.  Roughly it followed that ordinary and banal people liked The Great Gatsby, snotty, effete types liked This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned was for the discerning and unconventional (I’ll let you guess in which camp I numbered myself).  Tender is the Night was sort of an unknown quantity, preferred by dramatic people, maybe, or people who take pills.”

Modern Library Revue: #28 Tender is the Night by Lydia Kiesling

My iTunes shuffle just served me up this little treasure. Tom Petty always works for me. Happy Valentine’s Day.

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Some people like a certain kind of joke. Some people really like it when their neighborhood shows up in a movie. Some people really like peeling glue off their palms, right?

There are just things that people like. You can’t describe why we like them. Maybe they go back to our caveman selves. They probably do, in fact. But we like them. Or at least we like them in the sense that we feel some kind of relief when we encounter them. And art is a good venue for those things.

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Jonathan Safran Foer in Books and Culture

Listening today.