Short Story Author Larry Brown’s Big Love for His Small Characters
Although his works evoke Charles Bukowski, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and William Faulkner, Larry Brown's unapologetic characters were always his own.
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Lee Martin’s ‘The Mutual UFO Network’ Presents Twelve Graceful Measures in a Dark World
There are rare instances, no matter how experienced we might feel, when we encounter a short story collection of consistently strong, beautiful, breathtakingly tragic variations on a theme as captured by Martin here.
Working Class Villains in ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’
The Friends of Eddie Coyle presents a tragic character study of a working-class criminal who comes to realize he's wasted his life.
Juxtapositions of Beauty and Destruction in Michael Cimino’s ‘The Deer Hunter’
Unlike war films to follow, there's no post-war celebration to be had in The Deer Hunter.
‘Tangerines’ Is a Passionate Plea for Diplomacy and Coexistence
Tangerines highlights the various reasons why people fight, and then shows why these reasons are inadequate.
“Footsteps in Movies” and Other Strange Notions about the Authenticity of Media
Footsteps in movies never sound real. They shouldn't. after all, they're footsteps in movies.