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On ‘Barney’s Version’: A Confession
A Confession David Bezmozgis | February 23, 2011 Mordecai Richler.Hi Richard, Maybe the best way to begin is to say that I have a vague recollection of standing in the very tiny kitchen of my very...
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On ‘Barney’s Version’: The Canadian Jewish Experience
A Confession David Bezmozgis | February 23, 2011 Dear db, I absolutely remember our conversation in or around 2000, and I may even recall that I felt a tinge of jealousy leaking through the phone line...
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On ‘Barney’s Version’: The Elasticity of Cinema
A Confession David Bezmozgis | February 23, 2011 Paul Giamatti and Minnie Driver. Richard, I’m not a Talmudist, but in my recollection of the Talmud—which I was exposed to only as an adolescent in a...
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On ‘Barney’s Version’: Paul Giamatti Is Barney Panofsky
A Confession David Bezmozgis | February 23, 2011 Paul Giamatti.Dear David, Well apparently I am also not a Talmudist. I believe I was thinking of the practice of posing questions in order to merit...
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On ‘Barney’s Version’: The Great Taboo
A Confession David Bezmozgis | February 23, 2011 Mordecai Richler.Hi Richard, It’s interesting to hear you say that you still miss Barney’s voice. The book is driven to a great extent by Barney’s...
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On ‘Barney’s Version’: Barney’s Voice
A Confession David Bezmozgis | February 23, 2011 Rosamund Pike as Miriam, Barney's third wife. Dear David, There is a bias in Hollywood against voice-over narration. I cannot tell you how many times...
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Who is Bernard Herrmann?
The name Bernard Herrmann may not be as familiar as Aaron Copland or Samuel Barber, but you’d know his music instantly. Some of it—the shrieking strings from Psycho’s shower scene, for instance—is as...
View ArticlePlimpton! on Kickstarter
For over the last year, Thomas Bean and Luke Polling have been working on a documentary about George Plimpton called, well, Plimpton!. Today they launched a Kickstarter project to help them cover the...
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Li Bing Bing at High Tea
Li Bing Bing as Nina/Lily in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Just as high tea was being served at Gordon Ramsay’s Maze restaurant in midtown’s London Hotel last Wednesday, Li Bing Bing was accosted by...
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L.A. Advice: Writers Dating, Fear of the Blank Page
Last night, seventy-five or so Angelenos gathered at the Standard, Hollywood to listen to Ann Louise Bardach, David Kipen, Jonathan Lethem, Tom Lutz, and Michael Tolkin answer audience questions on...
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Don’t Make a Movie About Me
This month, Blue Rider Press will publish Forever Words: The Unknown Poems of Johnny Cash. Compiled from a mountain of Cash’s handwritten poetry (all unpublished), the work in Forever Words spans the...
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Staff Picks: Whisky Priests, World’s End, and Brilliant Friends
Still from Episode 1 (debut 11/18/18) of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend, “Le Bambole (The Dolls).” Photo: Eduardo Castaldo/HBO. I tend to be suspicious of film and television adaptations of my favorite...
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Redux: Reflexively Self-Revising
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to...
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Staff Picks: Decadence, Doodles, and Deep Ends
Ana Luísa Amaral. Photo: Mattias Blomgren (CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)), from Wikimedia Commons. If you think of poetry as a language at its purest and most distilled,...
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Staff Picks: Features, Films, and Flicks
Still from Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here. Photo courtesy of StudioCanal. You Were Never Really Here is a disturbing and poetic piece of cinema. I don’t know whether it’s my favorite movie...
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Redux: Eerie Fictions of the Afternoon
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to...
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Staff Picks: Bangs, Barbie, and Bodies
Charif Shanahan. Photo: Rachel Eliza Griffiths. I worry that I never quite say what I mean. I think about this especially when talking (and writing) about books. Using language to describe other...
View ArticlePlimpton! on Kickstarter
For over the last year, Thomas Bean and Luke Polling have been working on a documentary about George Plimpton called, well, Plimpton!. Today they launched a Kickstarter project to help them cover the...
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Li Bing Bing at High Tea
Li Bing Bing as Nina/Lily in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Just as high tea was being served at Gordon Ramsay’s Maze restaurant in midtown’s London Hotel last Wednesday, Li Bing Bing was accosted by...
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L.A. Advice: Writers Dating, Fear of the Blank Page
Last night, seventy-five or so Angelenos gathered at the Standard, Hollywood to listen to Ann Louise Bardach, David Kipen, Jonathan Lethem, Tom Lutz, and Michael Tolkin answer audience questions on...
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