April 2011
13 posts
Amy Poehler's Time 100 Speech Was Basically... →
Everybody’s writing you off as another young girl who’s gone off to L.A. It’s a...
– Brit Marling, who is in two of this year’s big indies (that she wrote! Woman is going places). See her in the trailer for Another Earth. She also kissed Britta on Community once. Versatility!
My other problem with his film Greenberg, and with Baxter’s Soul Thief, is the...
– Edan Lepucki’s new essay about Los Angeles and writing is pretty great.
This trailer. Wowza.
My first piece for NPR →
For All Things Considered, with Diablo Cody, Francine Pascal, and Brittany Daniel. Sweet Valley High returns!
They said, please, please make love with Helen, we require an assertion of...
– Donald Barthelme, “The School”
[“There is, of course, a fear involved in leaving New York,” Mr. Connors admits, “the fear that all your bright young friends are on track for the kind of interesting career that you’ve now renounced. The fear that if you can’t make it there, you might make it somewhere else, but it won’t feel as sweet. Youthful folly!”]
—Philip Connors, who...