Archive for June, 2009
I first picked up David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the summer before my freshman year of college. I had dropped out of high school at 15, spent a year or so living in Nepal and experiencing the world1, got my GED at 16, murdered my SATs and was ready start college younger (and presumably, […]
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Away We Go: Sam Mendes
by The Great White Gypsy I wish you could’ve seen my expression last November, when I first read the Oscar nominees for 2008. I was appalled. Not only were certain films on the docket that didn’t deserve so much as an original song award, but what was almost completely absent was Sam Mendes’ gut wrenching […]
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Downloading Nancy: Johan Renck
by The Great White Gypsy We’ve all been told about the dangers of meeting people online. The pedophiles, the perverts, the scams, the psychos. Some people just don’t listen. Others find exactly what they’re looking for. Such is the case in Downloading Nancy. Nancy (Maria Bello) is a housewife who suffers from mood disorders and […]
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Infinite Summer
Summer is in full swing. The sun’s coming out more, people are busting out the shorts and flip-flops, the girls are rocking the sundresses. Summer is great. And if you’re anything like me, no matter how much time you spend outside, you need a good book with you while you’re getting a tan and pretending […]
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by The Great White Gypsy This is a short book about the older of two identical twins. William is just as intelligent as his brother, Clive, but doesn’t apply himself, or go through the standard Freudian stages of childhood with the same speed and grace as his twin. His parents are pop-developmental psychology followers, and […]
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Tags: a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, an underachiever's diary, benjamin anastas, book, dave eggers, diary, frederick exley, literature, memoir, reading, review, run-on sentence, sexy gypsy, the faithful narrative of a pastor's disappearance