Jason Christian
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writer & educator | co-host: Cold War Cinema podcast | words: @BitterSouth , @BWDR , @LAReviewofBooks etc.
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Last June, I made a pilgrimage to George Orwell’s birthplace in Bihar, India and wrote an essay about the experience for
@LAReviewofBooks
. I got personal with this one. I’d be honored if you read it.
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You hear a lot about the Mediterranean diet but not enough about the French peasant diet.
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New Orleans mayor showing Macron our wrecked streets (cone and all) is the funniest image I’ve ever seen.
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taking recommendations for the most poetic, beautiful slim novels you can think of.
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Good literature and cinema is coming out constantly. The key is knowing where to look.
@BarryPierce
I feel terribly guilty saying this but I cannot think of a book written in the last twenty years I have read and thoroughly enjoyed.
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People who post things like this aren’t actually interested in literature. They’re looking for a magical formula to get published. It’s a careerist mindset masquerading as interest in art.
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According to Luis Buñuel, there was a brief moment when the surrealists in Paris understood that aesthetic revolution was inseparable from social revolution. Most avant-garde artists since have forgotten or ignored the second part.
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Strong contender for greatest book title of all time.
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Gabriel García Márquez on discovering Juan Rulfo’s PEDRO PÁRAMO in 1961:
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I sometimes forget how breathtaking the opening sentences of Moby-Dick are and what wonders it does to revisit them if you're feeling "grim about the mouth." We could all stand to find our own version of "getting to the sea."
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To the people who read 800-page novels in a week while holding down full time jobs, and who still find time to tweet twenty times a day: How do you do it? What's your secret?
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Do Americans know they can actually just let the leaves lie there on the ground?
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Hard to narrow it down, but here are my top 10 books for 2023:
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Friends, how can I convince you to watch The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)? It's one of the most gorgeously shot films of all time and absolutely timeless. It also helps us understand the "passion" and commitment Aaron Bushnell devoted to his ideals. Understanding is priceless.
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Novels in which the protagonist walks around a city, observes, and ruminates on life? (other than Robert Walser's The Walk and Teju Cole's Open City)
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Tenured professors should band together and demand that their institutions hire full-time lecturers only (no adjuncts) and refuse to work until it’s done.
What unpopular academia opinion would get you in this situation?
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Anybody want Trent Reznor’s old speaker cabinet? It’s outside of Euclid Records in New Orleans right now.
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What are you favorite personal essay openings? I want to show students some examples.
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I've been an adjunct instructor for only one semester and I had to tell them I'm not coming back in the spring. It's incredibly heartbreaking to turn down work that you love, that you are good at, that you have trained for and performed for years. The pay was simply too low.
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How do my writer friends make a living? (besides teaching and journalism staff jobs)
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Joyce invented the best adjective in Ulysses: beautifulinsadness.
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Reminder: has thousands of films free to stream, and since it's now Noirvember, you might want to peruse the 1,117 film noir selections currently on the site.
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Favorite memoirs by rebels, outcasts, radicals, and ruffians?
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Seeking recommendations for *novels* about visual artists—painters, sculptors, filmmakers, whatever.
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Catching Godard's CONTEMPT (1963) on the big screen tonight!
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I'm not a fan of science-fiction unless it 1) goes so far beyond the boundaries of the genre as to be debatable whether it even belongs there, or 2) leaves me full of questions. All of this is to say, I finally watched Jonathan Glazer's UNDER THE SKIN (2013), which does both.
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@AnjaliEnjeti
And the DNC will learn nothing from the experience and make zero changes, much less apologize. They’ll blame the left and third parties, etc.
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“I believe that if you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.” — Joy Harjo
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I’m begging people to read more books in translation.
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Loving it so far. Those sentences!
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Is there a novel about an adjunct English professor yet?
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People need to take advantage of, and admire, this brilliantly curated repository of essays and criticism compiled by
@aliner
. So many links and PDFs.
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Lots of advice out there on running a marathon, but precious little on how to watch a 7.5-hour film in the theater. I mention this because I'm watching Sátántangó tomorrow.
Holy mother of god, I get to see Sátántangó (1994) on the big screen next month. All seven hours of it! Buying my ticket now so I don't chicken out.
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E. M. Cioran says that you and me have a chance at this writing game.
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@Joe__Bassey
England was of course viciously racist (and still is), but this photo has been doctored. Here's the original. Just thought you might want to know.
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Seeking recs for novels about hermits or shut-ins. The less action the better.
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This record would be perfect to work to if it wasn’t compelling me to stop often to marvel at its beauty.
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Next up: Juan Rulfo’s PEDRO PÁRAMO. Excited about this new translation.
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I did a fun thing this month: watched 30 movies from 30 different countries, and wrote a few sentences about each. There were only a couple of duds in the entire bunch. Here's the list, if anyone is curious:
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If anyone is keen to watch Martin Scorsese's four-hour documentary MY VOYAGE TO ITALY (1999) about his favorite Italian cinema, it's free on . Here's the link:
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I'm not sure I can say much more at present, but I signed a contract this week for a full-time two-year lecturer position, beginning this fall semester. I'm very excited to be back in the classroom teaching writing to undergrads!
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During those two days of arguing, they could have read at least one short "classic" work. "Bartleby, the Scrivener," for example.
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The prose in this essay on Robert Glück is breathtaking. I learned so much about the New Narrative literary movement. Always read
@aliner
. Her intellectual interrogations into art are works of art in themselves.
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I don’t really believe in the so-called “first page test”—some books take longer to get going—but if I did, Buñuel’s memoir would certainly pass.
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There’s no better snob in all of literature than Nabokov lol
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Finally getting to this one. The opening chapter is arresting.
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Tonight's watch: Abbas Kiarostami's WHERE IS THE FRIEND'S HOUSE? (1987)
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I want to review some books in 2024, so I'm crowdsourcing recommendations for **innovative** nonfiction (memoir, biography, ekphrasis) or novels. Thank you.
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If you want to see a movie with Shelley Duvall in it, and you haven't seen Robert Altman's "3 Women" (1977), I highly recommend it.
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Holy mother of god, I get to see Sátántangó (1994) on the big screen next month. All seven hours of it! Buying my ticket now so I don't chicken out.
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Bottom line: you have to dream big and have faith in your book. Oh, and work tirelessly, feverishly hard.
(except from Nicholson Baker’s Paris Review interview)
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Your suggestions of wandering, meditative, plotless books. (Or, as
@aliner
calls them, "peripatetic" books, which I quite like.) Most are novels, some NF, some hybrid. I can't vouch that they all fit the bill. And apologies if I missed any. Happy reading!
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Happy birthday to Guy Debord and Manuel Puig
(and to me)
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I don't know if this is the most erudite interview in Interview magazine's history, but it's certainly the best I've read. Kudos to
@_ryanruby_
for such a brilliant conversation with Bennett Sims, whom I've never read, but definitely will now.
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Taking this opportunity to plug an article I wrote for
@BitterSouth
two years ago about concentration camps in the South that held Japanese American civilians. It would mean the world to me if you read it and shared it. I poured my heart into it.
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When I was a full-time lecturer at LSU, I taught 4 classes, 20 students in each. Now I'm teaching 3 classes w/ 26. That's two fewer students but earning less than half the pay. This *basically* full-time schedule will get you $14K per year (excluding summer). That's criminal.
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What are some other books “creative” criticism about a single film? A blend of criticism, memoir, and reportage. Big fan of this kind of writing.
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The most vulnerable people I can think of are civilians in Gaza. Who should I vote for now?
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@tnyfrontrow
Haven't seen Hometown Prison but this is a ridiculous take on The Zone of Interest.
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I truly don't understand how bringing home $7,000 per semester teaching 3 big classes (w/ no benefits) is legal. I'm not sure tenure-track professors really think about how bad the pay is for the people doing much of the teaching workload (grad students and adjuncts).
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This is how you write a review-essay. Just breathtaking…
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This essay by
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I’ve been planning this for a while and now I’ve finally made it to George Orwell’s birth home in Motihari, India.
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Someone put together a watch-list of over 700 movies called "Befriending the lyrical loneliness." You're welcome.
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Writing the opening of an essay is always the hardest part for me. I get hung up on the fear that there are better ways to begin. How do you work through that anxiety? What are you tricks?
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Favorite ten books that I read this year (in the order that I read them)
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I’ve never been so frustrated in my life. Lost 99% of my work—forever—because of an iCloud technical error. Needless to say, I have backed up those few remaining files and canceled iCloud. I’m enraged.
Well, I seemed to have lost nearly all of my files from the last ten years. Most of my writing. Resources for my memoir. Interview recordings. Hundreds of PDFS and ebooks. Gone. Just gone. I'll have to consider this some kind of blessing to not lose my mind.
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@inacawl
I'm a slow reader. Even if I didn't have a job, it would take me three or four weeks to read an 800-page novel.
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Life update: my wife took a job at Georgia Tech, and I picked up some adjuct work (for now). We're moving to Atlanta!
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My wife just successfully defended her dissertation. She’s a doctor now, and we’re celebrating. Yeehaw!
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I know this is a joke, but I did exactly this after the US starting bombing Iraq in 2003: moved to Barcelona, lived in squats and didn't work, read heaps of books, made art, started a lending library. This was my life until my return stateside in 2007.
The moral decision to not have a job, to lie about in bed all day reading, writing & drinking coffee so as not to contribute to the tax base subsidizing genocide abroad.
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You know who else this harms? Students. The adjunct starts to think the pay is too low to spend adequate time preparing for classes. It’s a recipe for poor student retention, poor graduation rates. Nobody wins.
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I absolutely loved this innovative memoir by
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