To contain it so gently The first time I saw him he had barrettes in his hair, wore a huge hoodie and big pants and looked like a cross between a raver and a boy in a fairy tale. The last time I saw him he was hooked up to a ventilator—all tubes, neck brace, [...]
Tag Archives: Thomas Yagoda
Kenneth Lonergan
January 14, 2012 – 7:36 am
One of the great moments in Margaret, Kenneth Lonergan’s long-awaited and under-publicized two-and-a-half-hour film, is when high school student and protagonist Lisa Cohen (Anna Paquin) approaches Mr. Aaron (Matt Damon), a well-meaning math teacher she had sex with, as he walks with a female colleague. Abruptly, Lisa tells the two teachers that she had an [...]
Emma Straub
February 1, 2011 – 11:03 am
It’s hard to find things to say about Emma Straub that haven’t already been said this week, as she’s gotten a ton of press for her short story collection Other People We Married, the first title from small press Five Chapters, but I’m going to try anyway. Here’s my two cents: Emma is the literary [...]
