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The New Yorker on "Into Great Silence"

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Jeffrey Overstreet

12 Apr 2007
Filed under: On Movies & Media • The New Yorker • Into Great Silence

Into Great Silence is "ridiculously popular" in New York, according to a new article in The New Yorker. And when New York's only Carthusian shows up to talk about his order, things get even more interesting.

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