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Wild Honey: Offbeat, phone-sex rom-com
Is this the party to whom I am speaking? What are you wearing?
Ben Wiley
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BookStories: The nose knows in Leanne Shapton’s Swimming Studies
14 memorable odors and an additional 14 of my own.
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BookStories: T-shirts get lit
Dressed for success, literary style at the Antiquarian Book Fair.
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A trifecta day at the Sarasota Film Festival
The Seen and the Unseen, The Queen of Fear and 1985.
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A day at the Sarasota Film Festival: Eighth Grade — the last film of the day
An angry adolescent girl tells her story. Sort of.
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A day at the Sarasota Film Festival: Maktub — the fest continues
Goofball Israeli mobsters: comedy with a punch.
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A day at the Sarasota Film Festival: American Animals
Knuckle-head college guys gettin’ zany.
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BookStories: Do you have Lionel Ritchie and the Wardrobe?
Sh*t bookstore customers say…
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BookStories: A life well-led and well-read
Ed Hacking and his hundred years of attitude.
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BookStories: A curmudgeon misses the card catalog!
Also, get off of his lawn, ya’ darn kids.
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Finding Your Feet: Formulaic feel-good froth
Sort of fun. Sort of. Not really. Never mind.
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Beirut: Geopolitics and art of the deal in war-torn Lebanon
Beirut is an old-school espionage thriller, so if you’re a fan of John LeCarre novels such as Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and films like Argo and The Year of Living Dangerously, welcome home.
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BookStories: New words, new worlds
Every little bit adds to a kid’s literacy.
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BookStories: Ancient digs lead to fountain of youth
It’s a generational thing.
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BookStories: Hemingway, a man of few words
I am an old man. My hands are scarred. I type words. The pain is great.
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Putin hates this film: The Death of Stalin
Banned in Moscow.
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BookStories: Wisdom from a boarding pass bookmark
Josh Cansler teaches us it’s never about what it’s about.
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RIP Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018
Crummy photo, memorable encounter, beautiful mind.
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Getting Grace: Laughing and crying with kids and cancer
Uplifting tale of struggle and redemption full of love and grace
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Seven Questions with… Armando Iannucci, writer-director of The Death of Stalin
Funny man talks about the comedy and politics of his film.