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A few snippets from a David Foster Wallace appreciation on Newsweek
This from “David Foster Wallace: An Appreciation by David Gates (Newsweek Books). I suspect that Wallace was a genius who happened to be a writer, rather than a writer who happened to be a genius-Hemingway, for instance. You can’t imagine … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: Edward Yang’s Terrorizers (恐怖分子）
《恐怖分子》影评：杨德昌的手术刀-搜狐娱乐 via kwout Edward Yang is, by any measure, a master of the cinema. Like his other films from this era (late 1980s and early 1990s), Terrorizers is a merciless dissection of the lives of the Taiwanese urban middle-class. I’ve … Continue reading
Movies I’m watching: Le Feu Follet and Naked
I think it was a happy coincidence that I watched Mike Leigh’s Naked and Louis Malle’s Le Feu Follet (The Fire Within) in succession, on the same day. Both are character-driven movies about men who, on the surface, appear to … Continue reading
Anhui “white house” official linked with mysterious death is suspended from job
See that building above? That’s what people in the Yingquan district of Fuyang City in Anhui province sarcastically call the “white house” and is the building wher ethe local government does its work. The local party secretary is named Zhang … Continue reading
Autumn Dewilde’s book on Elliott Smith
Amazon.com: Elliott Smith: Books: Autumn de Wilde,Beck Hansen,Chris Walla via kwout addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fpeijinchen.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F01%2F16%2Fautumn-dewildes-book-on-elliott-smith%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Autumn+Dewilde%26%238217%3Bs+book+on+Elliott+Smith’; addthis_pub = ”;