Month: November 2024

Essay

Home for the Holidays: Whether Told From Chris Radant’s or Claudia Larson’s Perspective, It Remains the Consummate Family-Related Thanksgiving Story

There is a good rule to abide by when it comes to adapting films these days: go with a short story as your source material rather than a novel. Leave the novels instead for a limited TV series (à la Ripley). And that’s part of why the film adaptation of 1995’s Thanksgiving opus, Home for the Holidays, is so perfect. Based on Chris Radler’s short … Continue reading Home for the Holidays: Whether Told From Chris Radant’s or Claudia Larson’s Perspective, It Remains the Consummate Family-Related Thanksgiving Story

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Poetry

The Tightrope Walker by Luke Shiller

A German, Jens, once told me,Bavarian through and through,Of an Artist friend of hisWho’d made it in the news For simply walking forwardStraight across the street,Never even looking downSix stories past his feet. I rendered humble homageUnto his lofty deed But had to add I saw it asA thing of little need: Who bid him gap that chasm?Who made him leave his homeTo reach a side … Continue reading The Tightrope Walker by Luke Shiller

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Martha Revisits Joan Didion’s “Everywoman.com” Essay, Reminds That the Two Are Kindred Perfectionists With a Similarly “Icy” Demeanor

With the renewed interest in Martha Stewart after the release of R.J. Cutler’s aptly titled Martha, there is likely to be some equally renewed interest in an article that Joan Didion wrote about the one-woman brand in question for The New Yorker back in 2000, selections of which are interwoven throughout the documentary via voiceover. Reprinted in 2021’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean … Continue reading Martha Revisits Joan Didion’s “Everywoman.com” Essay, Reminds That the Two Are Kindred Perfectionists With a Similarly “Icy” Demeanor

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Poetry

Your Lips by Dale Champlin

At this moment,your mouth so close to mine, as if we are a baby’s first breathour fledgling flight a runaway concerto,your essence heady as a vodka martini,a sea squall, a teeming jungle. I sway the way Eve must haveafter being yanked fromAdam’s rib cage—you, Adam, astounded by the tilt of my hips. Your kiss stings—as if my mouth never tasted anything so fiery yet sweet—frisson of a hunting … Continue reading Your Lips by Dale Champlin

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Cosmetic by Mark Katrinak

Tampering with the odometerto show less evidence of wear and tear—precision tools, a lift somewhere.Potential paramour, beware! The weather’s rough. A bit of rust.But mind wants young presented on its clock,machinations moving hour handsbackward upon a ruse of make-believe. At some point hard pressure’s appliedupon the thinning brakes, or obstaclesnecessitate a quick turning of the wheelleaving the driver and the passengersstranded upon the overpass. Faces … Continue reading Cosmetic by Mark Katrinak

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Highway Motel by Mark Katrinak

Wi-Fi, free coffee, cable, internet—who would stay otherwise, other than me,besides the shapely blonde whose eyes and minemet equally at open gates of sin? A painting of a homestead above the bed—cows at pasture, the chickens in the run,bonneted woman tending to the fieldswho has no business being in this room. Been here a week. The room next door in needof turnstile, many passing through … Continue reading Highway Motel by Mark Katrinak

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Collins’ Word of the Year and What It Says About “The Culture”

It might come as a surprise to anyone living under a rock (a.k.a. those with more “pressing” matters in their lives besides pop culture) that “brat” has been deemed the word of the year by Collins English Dictionary. While some snobs might be quick to point out that it’s not like the Oxford English Dictionary declared this, the news of brat’s status as the word … Continue reading Collins’ Word of the Year and What It Says About “The Culture”

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