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Three qualities of beauty

Three qualities of beauty

I think I might just scrap all of my syllabus explanations regarding how I grade essays and short stories in my writing classes. I'll just replace those with this passage from Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose: For three things concur in creating beauty: first

Details, details...

Details, details...

James Wood in The Nearest Thing to Life: bits of life: converted into (fictional, which is to say new) life. This quotation from Wood's extraordinary book addresses, in one potent paragraph, the big question I explored in a presentation I gave at The Glen Workshop in 2013 — "

Collectors: Why do you collect?

On Books & Writing

Collectors: Why do you collect?

With this weekend came came the latest breaking news from the Criterion Collection, and once again my cinephile's heart did its dance of joy. The announcement came with their semi-annual posting of titles that have been recently given the high-quality Criterion treatment for an upcoming release on blu-ray.

From the writer of Amazing Grace

"Our pleasure and our duty, Though opposite before, Since we have seen his beauty, Are joined to part no more..."

Something, Anything (2015)

Ida, Ewa, Gloria, and now... the final contestant in this, the Looking Closer Beauty Pageant. Readers, let me catch you up: In early 2014, I began a four-part series in which I focused on films that captured the rare cinematic marvel of a living, breathing, three-dimensional female character — somebody who

Ida (2014)

Welcome to the 2014 Looking Closer Beauty Pageant. So far this year, I've found four compelling contestants who manifest a different definition of beauty than the one embraced by popular culture. And it should come as no surprise that these characters appear in movies that have barely made a blip at