Marco Roth on Besse in the New Yorker

What a wonderful surprise – I’ve been a big fan of Roth’s work since I discovered n+1 back in 2005. I went to his reading of The Scientists at Town Hall here in Seattle back in like 2012 and remember asking him a question about some literary genre he’d been discussing – I can’t say it was a good good question but I remember him providing a thoughtful answer.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-hallucinatory-walk-through-paris-that-inspired-deleuze-and-guattari

Read/watched Feb 2023

Read

Mostly New Yorker articles and Christian Lorentzen’s substack

DeJean, How Paris Became Paris

Watched

Un flic

Broad city episodes

Curb your enthusiasm s11

Wayne’s World

The postman always rings twice

Paris, Texas

Been listening to quite a few episodes of The Dig while running more again, since quitting my office job.

Read/watched Jan 2023

Read

Essays from Trilling, The Liberal Imagination

Essays from Sontag, Against Interpretation

Elkin, No. 91/92: A Diary of a year on the bus

Watched

Last year at Marienbad

Broad city episodes

Alphaville

The Goonies (w/ kids)

Read/watched December 2022

Read

Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, The Professor of Desire, The Dying Animal

Antrim, The Afterlife

Watched

Some World Cup

Nightmare before Xmas (Seattle symphony)

A Christmas story

The human stain

Beethoven’s 9th symphony

Read/watched oct/nov 22

Read

Batuman, The Idiot

Antrim, The Verificationist

Watched

Atlanta S4

C.H.U.D.

Point break

Licorice pizza

A rainy day in New York

Read/watched sep 2022

Read

Dorceta Taylor, the environment and the people

Kunzru, white tears

Watched

Atlanta S4 episodes

Miles Davis doc

American beauty

Once upon a time in America

Bonnie & Clyde

Read/watched august 2022

Read

Taylor, Real Life

Watched

The big short

Deliverance

Read/watched July 2022

Bellow, Henderson the Rain King

Gary Indiana, Resentment

Blue velvet

Hud

Chinatown

Columbo and X-Files episodes

Boogie Nights

Blue Jasmine

Margin Call

Read and watched May/June 2022

Simenon, une confidence de Maigret

Offill, Dept. of Speculation

Roth, The Human Stain, I Married a Communist

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Both seasons of Mythomaniac

Atlanta S3

Dirty Harry

Joan Didion: the center will not hold

Read/watched April 2022

Ling Ma, Severance

Simenon, Maigret et le marchand du vin

Colburn and Page, Homelessness is a Housing Problem

Didn’t watch much other than new episodes of Atlanta, an X-files or two, Nomadland (finally), and Keith Knight’s show that I keep accidentally calling The K-Chronicles even though I swear I know it’s called Woke. I was a big fan of the former 20 years ago, right when I was finishing up school, so I’m really glad he got a chance to make a show. I’ll never forget meeting him at the (old) Hugo House in Seattle; when I told him my name, he hollered out, “KEEF!”