“Sometimes out of curiosity and my own vanity, I’ll search for the show on Twitter and see that people are recommending it, or that they’ve just found out about it,” Chris Estrada, the co-creator and co-star of Hulu’s “This Fool,” told me. It was the end of March and we, along with co-star Frankie Quiñones, […]
The quote in the above headline is part of the last line of Rainer Maria Rilke’s famous sonnet, “ Archaic Torso of Apollo ,” as translated by Stephen Mitchell. It’s a haunting line, among the most recognizable second person directives in all of poetry. Each time I read the poem, I find it hard not […]
“Sometimes out of curiosity and my own vanity, I’ll search for the show on Twitter and see that people are recommending it, or that they’ve just found out about it,” Chris Estrada, the co-creator and co-star of Hulu’s “This Fool,” told me. It was the end of March and we, along with co-star Frankie Quiñones, […]
Image Credit: In today’s digital age, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the landscape of various industries, and writing is no exception. AI-powered tools and algorithms have emerged as powerful allies for writers, reshaping the way we approach the craft of writing. Beyond simply automating mundane tasks, AI is transforming good writing techniques, unlocking new […]
This week on The Maris Review , Jamel Brinkley joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Witness , out now from FSG. Subscribe and download the episode , wherever you get your podcasts. Episode 216: Jamel Brinkley Forward 15 seconds Back 15 seconds Share Subscribe Description * from the episode: Maris Kreizman: I’m wondering if you could […]
Photo of Richard Burton and Yvonne Furneaux from a showing of “Wuthering Heights” As a reader I want a deeply flawed love interest. A relationship that’s doomed from the start. My first taste of the deeply flawed love interest was the Byronic hero. I learned about him in the classroom. I saw him in the […]
The following is from Yu Miri’s End of August . A Korean author writing in Japanese, Yu Miri has with over twenty books to her name. She received Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, and her novel, Tokyo Ueno Station , also translated by Morgan Giles, won the 2020 National Book Award for […]
Our fivesome of fascinating reviews this week includes Mateo Askaripour on Jamel Brinkley’s Witness , Katy Waldman on Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake , Michael Frank on Patrick deWitt’s The Librarianist , Apoorva Tadepalli on Lydia Kiesling’s Mobility , and Jennifer Szalai on Wolfram Eilenberger’s The Visionaries . Brought to you by Book Marks , Lit […]
This conversation is presented in partnership with the Refocus Film Festival, a four-day celebration of the art of adaptation and hosted by Iowa City’s nonprofit cinema, FilmScene. The 2nd annual Refocus Film Festival will take place in Iowa City October 12-15, 2023. Passes are on sale now , with individual tickets and full festival announcements […]
Let’s be real. Paul Thomas Anderson has never made a bad movie. In fact, when I ranked all of PTA’s films , it was hard to figure out what would be number one, since I had a three-way-tie in my mind with Phantom Thread , The Master , and There Will Be Blood . That […]
