The Screaming Pope

Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.

Monday, April 2, 2012

Paris Journal I: La Cordonnerie

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Photograph by Hallie Cohen If you can get a table in the kitchen of La Cordonnerie on the Rue St. Roch near the Tuileries stop on the N...
Friday, March 30, 2012

One Desperate Actress In Search of a Soap

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The notion of killing off a character in a television series because the actress who plays her irritates the producer has dramatic possibil...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

The Future is Publishers Weekly

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The future is Publishers Weekly. There you can read forecasts about forecasting. Two recent futuristically orientated novels generated au...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Bad Behavior

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Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse-Getty Images President Obama was quoted in the Times about North Korea, “They need to understand that b...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

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                                                                photo: Richard Termine Gasper Noe’s Enter the Void deals with the ince...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Children of Paradise

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Could it be that the carnival scenes in Marcel Camus Black Orpheus ( Orfeu Negro ,  l959) were inspired by the final scene of Marcel Carne...
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Friday, March 23, 2012

Tony Judt: A Final Victory

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Readers of The New York Review of Books will vividly recall the essays Tony Judt, the NYU historian, published in the months leading up to...
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Francis Levy's debut novel, Erotomania: A Romance, was released in August 2008 by Two Dollar Radio. His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, The East Hampton Star, The Quarterly, Penthouse, Architectural Digest, TV Guide, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and other publications. One of his Voice humor pieces was anthologized in The Big Book of New American Humor (HarperCollins). His collection of parables, The Kafka Studies Department with illustrations by Hallie Cohen will appear in September.
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