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List of poets whose work I've posted:
Poetry Magazine selections
The Adroit selections
Diode Poetry selections
Sixth Finch selections
Ada Limon
Adam Zagajewski
Adonis
Allen Ginsberg
Amy Clampitt
Andrea Cohen
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Swir
Anne Sexton
Ben Johnson
Billy Collins
Cathy Linh Che
Carolyn Marie Rodgers
Chard deNiord
Christina Rossetti
Czesław Miłosz
Dalton Day
Denise Levertov
Dian Million
Donika Kelly
Dorianne Laux
Edward Hirsch
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth “Sister Goodwin” Hope
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Gloria Bird
Gregory Orr
Gwendolyn MacEwen
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Jack Gilbert
James Hayford
James Longenbach
Jenny George
Jim Harrison
Joanna Newsom
John Berryman
John Dowland
John Keats
Jorie Graham
Joy Harjo
Kitchen McKeown
Kuhu Joshi
Langston Hughes
Linda Pastan
Lisel Mueuller
Louise Glück
Mary Karr
Mary Oliver
Mary Tallmountain
Matt Hohner
Matt Rasmussen
Matthew Arnold
Michael Gray Bulla
Miles Walser
Morag Smith
Natalie Diaz
Ocean Vuong
Penny Shutt
Phil Ochs
Phillip B. Williams
Robert Hedin
Roberta Hill Whiteman
Ronald Wallace
Ruth Stone
Sayat Nova
Sean Eaton
Sherman Alexie
Stephen Kampa
Sugawara no Michizane
Thomas Lux
T.S. Eliot
Wanda Coleman
W.H. Auden
William Carlos Williams
Will Alexander
Wisława Szymborska
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
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Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Sidney Deane: Wesley Snipes Billy Hoyle: Woody Harrelson Gloria Clement: Rosie Perez Rhonda Deane: Tyra Ferrell Robert: Cylk Cozart Junior: Kadeem Hardison George: Ernest Harden Jr. Walter: John Marshall Jones Raymond: Marques Johnson T.J.: David Roberson Zeke: Kevin Benton Dwight ‘The Flight’ McGhee: Nigel Miguel Willie Lewis: Duane Martin Self: Bill Henderson Self: Sonny Craver Self: Jon Hendricks Tony Stucci: Eloy Casados Frank Stucci: Frank Rossi Duck Johnson: Freeman Williams Eddie ‘The King’ Faroo: Louis Price Himself: Alex Trebek Reggie: Reggie Leon Etiwanda: Sarah Stavrou Tad: Reynaldo Rey Lanei: Lanei Chapman Real Estate Agent: Irene Nettles Tanya: Torri Whitehead Alisa: Lisa McDowell The Bank: Dion B. Vines Malcolm: David Maxwell Tournament Announcer: Bill Caplan Tournament Referee: Richard James Baker Big Guy’s Girlfriend: Amy Golden Little Guy’s Girlfriend: Jeanette Srubar Sponsor: Zandra Hill Sponsor: Fred P. Gregory Pickup Truck Driver: Carl E. Hodge Ruben: Ruben Martinez Oki-Dog Businessman: Gary Lazer Yolanda: Donna Howell Jake: Don Fullilove Jeopardy! Announcer: Johnny Gilbert Dr. Leonard Allen: Leonard A. Oakland Rocket Scientist: Allan Malamud Dressing Room Staffer: Jeanne McCarthy Cop: John Charles Sheehan Leon: Gregg Daniel Gambler: Carl A. McGee NBA Announcer: Chick Hearn NBA Announcer: Stu Lantz Ballplayer: Ronald Beals Ballplayer: Joe Metcalf Ballplayer: Mahcoe Moore Ballplayer: Mark Hill Ballplayer: Eric Kizzie Ballplayer: Chalmer Maddox Ballplayer: Leroy Michaux Ballplayer: Joseph Duffy Ballplayer: Pete Duffy Ballplayer: Gary Moeller Ballplayer: Daniel Porto Ballplayer: Lester Hawkins Ballplayer: Jeffrey Todd Film Crew: Producer: Don Miller Director: Ron Shelton Producer: David V. Lester Editor: Kimberly Ray Director of Photography: Russell Boyd Editor: Paul Seydor Costume Design: Francine Jamison-Tanchuck Production Design: J. Dennis Washington Art Direction: Roger G. Fortune Executive Producer: Michele Rappaport Casting: Victoria Thomas Unit Production Manager: Ed Milkovich Set Decoration: Robert R. Benton Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gregg Rudloff Makeup Department Head: Stephanie Cozart Burton Hair Department Head: Sterfon Demings Makeup Artist: Patricia Messina Hairstylist: Kenneth Walker Second Assistant Director: Robert J. Metoyer First Assistant Director: Richard Alexander Wells Sound Editor: Patrick Bietz ADR Editor: Barbara J. Boguski Sound Editor: Robert Bradshaw Sound Re-Recording Mixer: David E. Campbell Sound Editor: Larry Carow Foley Editor: Bill Dannevik Foley Editor: Michael Dressel Supervising Sound Editor: Gordon Ecker Supervising Sound Editor: Bruce Fortune Sound Mixer: Kirk Francis Foley Editor: Leslie Gaulin Sound Editor: Howell Gibbens ADR Editor: Holly Huckins ADR Mixer: Doc Kane Sound Editor: John Kwiatkowski Sound Editor: Kimberly Lowe Voigt Sound Editor: Anthony Milch ADR Editor: Michele Perrone Sound Re-Recording Mixer: John T. Reitz Foley Editor: Steve Richardson Sound Editor: Steve Schwalbe Foley Editor: Shawn Sykora Sound Editor: Richard E. Yawn Stunts: Gary Baxley Stunts: Simone Boisseree Stunts: Mike Johnson Stunt Coordinator: Julius LeFlore Stunts: Scott Leva Casting Associate: Jory Weitz Costume Supervisor: Betty Jean Slater Camera Operator: Mike Benson Steadicam Operator: Michael Meinardus Gaffer: Patrick Murray Grip: Mark Pearson Grip: Ty Suehiro Grip: Clay H. Wilson Grip: Edmond Wright Movie Reviews:
#Basketball#buddy#california#confidence artist#friendship#hoodlum#hustling#jeopardy#los angeles#male friendship#racial segregation#Sports#streetball#Top Rated Movies#white trash
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The EVILS of the Jersey Shore! "Exit 0" reviewed! (DVD / Breaking Glass Pictures)
The EVILS of the Jersey Shore! “Exit 0” reviewed! (DVD / Breaking Glass Pictures)
A young New York City couple drive down the Jersey Turnpike down to the Jersey Shore for a quaint getaway in the comforts of Cape May’s Doctor’s Inn Bed and Breakfast. With the hopes of rekindling the spark between them, the omission of the fast churning city living will surely become dampened by the island’s off-season quiet that’s more in sync with focusing on each other. However, after a…
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#Augie Duke#Avalon#Breaking Glass Pictures#Cape May#Daniel OShea#Doctors Inn Bed and Breakfast#E.B. Hughes#EBFilms#Exit 0#Federico Castelluccio#folklore#Gabe Fazio#Gregory Voigt#independent horror#Kenneth McGregor#Mental Illness#Midday Demons#New Jersey#New york#Peter Greene#Philadelphia#Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil#psychological thriller#The Badger Game#The Mask#The Rocketeer#Trauma is a Time machine
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tag nine people you'd like to know better or catch up to!
My main blog @aerocityy was tagged for the game. But sadly, my phone has been taken away and I have to do stuff from my writing account on my precious laptop
last song: Fuxxin love-OoOo
last movie: The Roman Holiday. My mum and I were watching it together and she was more interested in fangirling over Gregory Peck than watching the whole thing 🤣
currently watching: Attack on titan, sk8 infinity, Welcome to Wakiki and Nokol heere (it's in Bengali haha).
currently reading: Textbooks 🤡 Ok jkjk. I am reading "Sons from Afar" by Cynthia Voigt
currently craving: Pepperoni stromboli from Sbarro's. And ramen too. We're still in a lockdown so I am craving every kind of delivery food in general.
I was tagged by @00solarsmiles
I am tagging @lebrookestore @choi-seonet @wh0sthe5pecial0ne @minqyu @nakamotocore @jenophilia
#haha my phone is in the closet now#tag games#pls this blog was a secret sjsjsj#i am very much embarrassed bye#lilly 💖
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Resources
It started with a tweet. I asked:
1 - Poets with MFAs & poetry professors: are there specific books (of poetry, on poetry) that you would recommend for writers who may not have access to formal education in poetry?
2- Poets without MFAs — please feel free to add books that have felt pivotal and educational for you in your process. I mean this primarily as a resource and did not mean to suggest that others may not have valuable texts to offer!
Here are some of the responses (I typed up as many as I could, bolded any that I noticed repeated):
Dorianne Laux and Kim Addonizio’s The Poet’s Companion
Kaveh Akbar’s Divedapper interviews
Mary Oliver’s A Poetry Handbook
Writing Dangerous Poetry by Michael C Smith
Creating Poetry by Drury
The Practice of Poetry by Behn
Feeling as a Foreign Language by Alice Fulton
A Little Book on Form by Robert Hass
Poetry and the Fate of the Senses by Stewart
Of Color: Poets’ Way of Making Anthology (forthcoming)
De-canon
The Volta
The Alabastar Jar (interviews with Li Young-Lee)
Ordinary Genius by Kim Addonzio
On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell
Fictive Certainties by Robert Duncan
The Flexible Lyric by Voigt
Wislawa Symborska’s “Nonrequired Reading”
The Art of series (especially the Art of Description by Mark Doty, especially The Art of Syntax by Ellen Bryant Voigt)
My Poets by Maureen N. McLane
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
The Crafty Poet by Diane Lockward
Wingbeats and Wingbeats II by Scott Wiggerman
Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle
Picking one poet per year, reading their ouvre and letters (an extremely helpful and nourishing assignment from a genius prof)
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Rigorously study the line, study grammar, and study some kind of oracle system (Tarot, I Ching, astrology, etc) and read as widely in poetry as you can
Poetic Rhythm by Derek Attridge
A Poet’s Guide by Mary Kinzie
The Art of the Poetic Line by James Logenbach
John Frederick Nims’ Western Wind
Poetry: A Writer’s Guide by Amorak Huey and Todd Kaneko
The Making of a Poem (Norton)
Art of Recklessness
Modern Life by Matthea Harvey
Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky
Please by Jericho Brown
Slow Lightning by Eduardo Corral
Meadowlands by Louise Gluck
Kinky by Denise Duhamel
Names Above Houses by Oliver de la Paz
How To Read A Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry by Edward Hirsch
Carol Rumen’s long-running weekly Guardian column
Poetry 101 by Susan Dalzell
Theory of Prose by V Shklovsky
The Art of Attention by D Revell
Structure and Surprise by M. Theune
Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder
Poems - Poets - Poetry An Introduction and Anthology by Helen Vendler
Triggering Town by Richard Hugo
The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination by Carl Phillips
Upstream by Mary Oliver
The Life of Images by Cahrles Simic
Being Human (anthology)
How To be a Poet
Nine Gates by Jane Hirshfield
Gregory Orr book on lyric poetry
WIld Hundreds by Nate Marshall
What the Living Do by Marie Howe
Helium by Rudy Francisco
Wind in a Box (or anything else) by Terrance Hayes
Blud by Rachel McKibbens
Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith
Poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams, Ted Kooser, Pablo Neruda, ee cummings, Charles Simic, Patricia Smith, Dorianne Laux, EB Voigt, Terrance Hayes, John Donne, TS Eliot, Ezra Pound
Read widely. Read more than poetry. Embrace your outsider knowledge.
Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft by Toby Hoagland
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky
A Field Guide to Poetry
Ten Windows by Jane Hirshfield
The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry
The Book of Luminous Things (anthology) ed. by Milosz
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Poets.org and Poetry Foundation websites
Beautiful and Pointless by David Orr
Find or start a writing group!
Best Words, Best Order by Stephen Dobyns
American Sonnets by Terrance Hayes
The Lichtenberg Figures by Ben Lerner
Poetry Notebook by Clive James
Don Paterson’s 22-page intro to “101 sonnets”
Essays by Barbara Guest
Poetry is Not a Project by Dorothea Lasky
After Lorca by Jack Spicer
The New American Poetry 1945-1960
Helen Vendler’s criticism (The Ocean, The Bird and the Scholar)
Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ed. By Philip Larkin
The Discovery of Poetry by Frances Mayes
French symbolists
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
The Poets Laureate Anthology
Poet’s House, 92Y Poetry
Singing School by Robert Pinsky
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets by Ted Kooser
Glitter in the Blood by Mindy Nettifee
Poetry: A Survivor’s Guide by Mark Yakich
All the Fun’s In How You Say A Thing by Timothy Steele
The Collected Poems(1856-1987) by John Ashberry
Viper Rum by Mary Karr
The Making of a Poem by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland
Rules of the Dance by Mary Oliver
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Jorie Graham lecture On Description (youtube)
Poetry in Theory
How to be a Poet by Jo Bell and Jane Commane (& special guests)
dVerse Poets
Reading Poetry: An Introduction by Furniss and Bath
Poetry: The Basics by Jeffrey Wainwright
The Poetry Handbook by John Lennard
Broken English: Poetry and Partiality by Heather McHugh
The Poem’s Heartbeat by Alfred Corn
Orr’s Primer for Poets and Reads of Poetry
Penguin’s 20th Century Anthology
The United States of Poetry
Staying Alive: real poems for Unreal Times ed. By Neil Astley
Hollander’s Rhyme’s Reason
52 Ways to Read A Poem by Ruth Padel
A Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry by David Mason and John Frederick Nims
Projective Verse by Charles Olson
Retrospect/A Few Don’t by an Imagiste - Ezra Pound
Against Interpretation - Susan Sontag
Commonplace Podcast
Headwaters by EB Voigt
Olio by Tyehimba Jess
The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
The Living and the Dead by Sharon Olds
Sonnets by Bernadette Mayer
The Sin Eater by Deborah Randall
The Art of Poetry Writing by William Packard
The Poet’s Dictionary by William Packard
Freedom Hill by LS Asekoff
Theory of the Lyric by Jonathan Culler
Close Listening ed. By Charles Bernstein
Poetics of Relation by Edouard Glissant
The Poet’s Manual and Rhyming Dictionary by Frances Stillman
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
The Way to Write Poetry by Michael Baldwin
Fussell’s Poetic Meter and Poetic Form
Lofty Dogmas: Poets of Poetics
Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetics by Stephanie Burt
Poetry in the Making by Ted Hughes
A poet needs: grounding in verse and rhyme from nursery lines, a grounding in adult poetic diction by the classic poets (of antiquity, late antiquity, then the mediaeval, early modern and modern periods), and their own poetic vision
Pig Notes and Dumb Music by William Heyen
Satan Says by Sharon Olds
My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe
#poetry#on poetry#poetry school#self education#resources#learning#about poetry#mfa programs#reading#for your own edification#creative writing#studying
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What other fandoms are you familiar enough with to use as an AU prompt? Pokemon Trainer AU? Homestuck AU (they'd still probably die but at least there are lots of ways to come back to life)?
I’m not that familiar with Homestuck, definitely not enough to do an AU. I read the novelizations of the Pokemon show as a kid but never saw the show or played any of the video games. I did play the super-obscure Pokemon board game, but most of my trading cards were printed in Japanese (I had a strange childhood), so my experience there is, uh, probably not quite overlapping with everyone else’s.
Anyway, if you want list of all my fandoms… Boy howdy. I don’t think I can come up with them all. However, I can list everything that comes to mind between now and ~20 minutes from now when I have to end my procrastination break and go back to dissertating. So here it is, below the cut:
Okay, there is no way in hell I’ll be able to make an exhaustive list. But off the top of my head, the fandoms I’m most familiar/comfortable with are as follows:
Authors (as in, I’ve read all or most of their books)
Patricia Briggs
Megan Whalen Turner
Michael Crichton
Marge Piercy
Stephenie Meyer
Dean Koontz
Stephen King
Neil Gaiman
K.A. Applegate
Ernest Hemingway
Tamora Pierce
Roald Dahl
Short Stories/Anthologies
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
Dubliners, James Joyce
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
Who Goes There? John W. Campbell
The Man Who Bridged the Mist, Kij Johnson
Flatland, Edwin Abbott
I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison
To Build a Fire, Jack London
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bier
At the Mountains of Madness/Cthulu mythos, H.P. Lovecraft
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
Close Range: Wyoming Stories, E. Annie Proulx
The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Bartleby the Scrivener (and a bunch of others), Herman Melville
Books (Classics)
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Secret Garden, Francis Hodgson Burnett
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
The Secret Annex, Anne Frank
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Stranger, Albert Camus
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Atonement, Ian McEwan
1984, George Orwell
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
The Iliad/The Odyssey, Homer
Metamorphoses, Ovid
Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
The Time-Machine, H.G. Wells
The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Hamlet, MacBeth, Othello, and The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Thomas Stoppard
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Books (YA SF)
Young Wizards series, Diane Duane
Redwall, Brian Jaques
The Dark is Rising sequence, Susan Cooper
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Diana Wynne Jones
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
Abhorsen trilogy, Garth Nix
The Giver series, Lois Lowry
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Uglies series, Scott Westerfeld
Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Song of the Lioness, Tamora Pierce
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
Unwind, Neal Shusterman
The Maze Runner series, James Dashner
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia C. Wrede
Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar
Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
Coraline, Neil Gaiman
Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
Poppy series, Avi
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Tithe, Holly Black
Life as We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer
Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause
Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
Haunted, Gregory Maguire
Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block
Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White
East, Edith Pattou
Z for Zachariah, Robert C. O’Brien
The Looking-Glass Wars, Frank Beddor
The Egypt Game, Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Homecoming, Cynthia Voigt
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
The Landry News, Andrew Clements
Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson
Bloody Jack, L.A. Meyer
The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner
A Certain Slant of Light, Laura Whitcomb
Generation Dead, Daniel Waters
Pendragon series, D.J. MacHale
Silverwing, Kenneth Oppel
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Define Normal, Julie Anne Peters
Hawksong, Ameila Atwater Rhodes
Heir Apparent, Vivian Vande Velde
Running Out of Time, Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Keys to the Kingdom series, Garth Nix
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken
The Seer and the Sword, Victoria Hanley
My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
Daughters of the Moon series, Lynne Ewing
The Midwife’s Apprentice, Karen Cushman
Island of the Aunts, Eva Ibbotson
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Nancy Farmer
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
A School for Sorcery, E. Rose Sabin
The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs
The Edge Chronicles, Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Hope was Here, Joan Bauer
Bunnicula, James Howe
Wise Child, Monica Furlong
Silent to the Bone, E.L. Konigsburg
The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene du Bois
Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters, Gail Giles
The Supernaturalist, Eoin Colfer
Blue is for Nightmares, Laurie Faria Stolarz
Mystery of the Blue Gowned Ghost, Linda Wirkner
Wait Till Helen Comes, Mary Downing Hahn
I was a Teenage Fairy, Francesca Lia Block
City of the Beasts series, Isabelle Allende
Summerland, Michael Chabon
The Geography Club, Brent Hartinger
The Last Safe Place on Earth, Richard Peck
Liar, Justine Larbalestier
The Doll People, Ann M. Martin
The Lost Years of Merlin, T.A. Barron
Matilda Bone, Karen Cushman
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
The Tiger Rising, Kate DiCamillo
The Spiderwick Chronicles, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
In the Forests of the Night, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
My Teacher is an Alien, Bruce Coville
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, Julie Andrews Edwards
Storytime, Edward Bloor
Magic Shop series, Bruce Coville
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
Veritas Project series, Frank Peretti
The Once and Future King, T.H. White
Raven’s Strike, Patricia Briggs
What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy, Gregory Maguire
The Wind Singer, William Nicholson
Sweetblood, Pete Hautman
The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White
Half Magic, Edward Eager
A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L'Engle
The Heroes of Olympus, Rick Riordan
Maximum Ride series, James Patterson
The Edge on the Sword, Rebecca Tingle
World War Z, Max Brooks
Adaline Falling Star, Mary Pope Osborne
Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo
Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
Parable of the Sower series, Octavia Butler
I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
Neuomancer, William Gibson
Dune, Frank Herbert
The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth
The Martian, Andy Weir
Skeleton Man, Joseph Bruchac
Comics/Manga
Marvel 616 (most of the major titles)
Marvel 1610/Ultimates
Persepolis
This One Summer
Nimona
Death Note
Ouran High School Host Club
Vampire Knight
Emily Carroll comics
Watchmen
Fun Home
From Hell
American Born Chinese
Smile
The Eternal Smile
The Sandman
Calvin and Hobbes
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
TV Shows
Fullmetal Alchemist
Avatar the Last Airbender
Teen Titans (2003)
Luke Cage/Jessica Jones/Iron Fist/Defenders/Daredevil/The Punisher
Agents of SHIELD/Agent Carter
Supernatural
Sherlock
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Angel/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Firefly
American Horror Story
Ouran High School Host Club
Orange is the New Black
Black Sails
Stranger Things
Westworld
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Movies
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Jurassic Park/Lost World/Jurassic World/Lost Park?
The Breakfast Club
Cloverfield/10 Cloverfield Lane/The Cloverfield Paradox
Attack the Block
The Prestige
Moon
Ferris Bueler’s Day Off
Django Unchained/Kill Bill/Inglourious Basterds/Hateful 8/Pulp Fiction/etcetera
Primer
THX 1138/Akira/How I Live Now/Lost World/[anything I’ve named a fic after]
Star Wars
The Meg
A Quiet Place
Baby Driver
Mother!
Alien/Aliens/Prometheus
X-Men (et al.)
10 Things I Hate About You
The Lost Boys
Teen Wolf
Juno
Pirates of the Caribbean (et al.)
Die Hard
Most Disney classics: Toy Story, Mulan, Treasure Planet, Emperor’s New Groove, etc.
Most Pixar classics: Up, Wall-E, The Incredibles
The Matrix
Dark Knight trilogy
Halloween
Friday the 13th
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Descent
Ghostbusters
Ocean’s Eight/11/12/13
King Kong
The Conjuring
Fantastic Four
Minority Report/Blade Runner/Adjustment Bureau/Total Recall
Fight Club
Spirited Away
O
Disturbing Behavior
The Faculty
Poets
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Marge Piercy
Thomas Hardy
Sigfried Sassoon
W. B. Yeats
Edgar Allan Poe
Ogden Nash
Margaret Atwood
Maya Angelou
Emily Dickinson
Matthew Dickman
Karen Skolfield
Kwame Alexander
Ellen Hopkins
Shel Silverstein
Musicals/Stage Plays
Les Miserables
Repo: The Genetic Opera
The Lion King
The Phantom of the Opera
Rent
The Prince of Egypt
Pippin
Into the Woods
A Chorus Line
Hairspray
Evita
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Fiddler on the Roof
Annie
Fun Home
Spring Awakening
Chicago
Cabaret
The Miser
The Importance of Being Earnest
South Pacific
Godspell
Wicked
The Wiz
The Wizard of Oz
Man of La Mancha
The Sound of Music
West Side Story
Matilda
Sweeney Todd
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Nunsense
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown/Snoopy
1776
Something Rotten
A Very Potter Musical
Babes in Toyland
Carrie: The Musical
Amadeus
Annie Get Your Gun
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The Final Battle
Rock of Ages
Cinderella
Moulin Rouge
Honk
Labyrinth
The Secret Garden
Reefer Madness
Bang Bang You’re Dead
NSFW
War Horse
Peter Pan
Suessical
Sister Act
The Secret Annex
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Disclaimer 1: Like a lot of people who went to high school in the American South, my education in literature is pretty shamefully lacking in a lot of areas. (As in, during our African American History unit in ninth grade we read To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn… and that was it. As in, our twelfth-grade US History class, I shit you not, covered Gone With the Wind.) There were a lot of good teachers in with the *ahem* Less Woke ones (how I read Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Bluest Eye) and college definitely set me on the path to trying to find books written/published outside the WASP-ier parts of the U.S., but the overall list is still embarrassingly hegemonic.
Disclaimer 2: There are a crapton of errors — typos, misspelled names, misattributions, questionable genre classifications, etc. — in here. If you genuinely have no idea what a title is supposed to be, ask me. Otherwise, please don’t bother letting me know about my mistakes.
Disclaimer 3: I am not looking for recommendations. My Goodreads “To Read” list is already a good 700 items long, and people telling me “if you like X, then you’ll love Y!” genuinely stresses me the fuck out.
Disclaimer 4: There are no unproblematic faves on this list. I love Supernatural, and I know that Supernatural is hella misogynistic. On the flip side: I don’t love The Lord of the Rings at all, partially because LOTR is hella misogynistic, but I also don’t think that should stop anyone else from loving LOTR if they’re willing to love it and also acknowledge its flaws.
#literature#fandom#booklist#about the blogger#long post#long ass post#books#nothing to do with animorphs#Anonymous#asks
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Nine Million Witches (long post)
The claim that nine million women died in the witch hunts is dead wrong.
It was, in fact, fabricated by a German man named Gottfried Christian Voigt (1740–1791). He is known as the source of the estimate of “nine million victims” in the European witch-hunts which became an influential popular myth in 20th century feminism and neopaganism. The history of this estimate was researched by Behringer (1998).
Voigt published it in a 1784 article, writing in the context of the Age of Enlightenment, wishing to emphasize the importance of education in rooting out superstition and a relapse into the witch-craze which had subsided less than a lifetime ago in his day. He was criticizing Voltaire’s estimate of “several hundred thousand” as too low.
Here’s the portion of Behringer that quotes what Voigt said.
“In Deutschland, Frankreich, Spanien, Italien und England, und überhaupt in dem Theile Europens, welcher seit dem Ausgang des 6. Jahrhunderts sich zur christlichen Religion bekannt hat, sind wenigstens 71 Millionen Einwohner anzunehmen. Wenn nun in einem so kleinen Bezirk Deutschlandes, welcher kaum 11 bis 12000 Menschen fasset, in einem Jahrhunderte auf 133 Personen als Hexen hingerichtet sind; so beträgt dieses in der ganzen christlichen Kirche auf jedes Jahrhundert 858.454, und auf den von mir bezeichneten Zeitraum von elf Jahrhunderten 9 Millionen vierhundert zwei und vierzigtausend neunhundert vier und neunzig Menschen.”
If your browser doesn’t translate from German, or you just don’t feel like reading through all of it, here is a translation:
“In Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and England, and at least in the part of Europe, which has become a Christian religion since the end of the sixth century, at least 71 million inhabitants are to be taken, Which is scarcely from 11 to 12,000 men, are executed as witches in a century, on the whole Christian Church, for every century 858,454, and on the period of eleven centuries which I have designated nine millions four hundred two-and-forty thousand nine hundred four-and-ninety people. ”
Behringer continues:
Even if Voigt’s number base and his speculations over the course of centuries had been constant witchcrafting across Europe - even in itself this high-rate calculation was wrong. For instead of 650 years ago, he had suddenly laid the foundation for eleven centuries, from the beginning of the seventh to the end of the seventeenth century, using the pontificate of Pope Gregory the Great (590-604), who had introduced the witch trials.
The bulk of the witch trials, by the way, happened in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Neither the trials nor the executions happened at a steady rate over eleven centuries. (Not that everyone who was tried was executed.) And Voigt…well, Behringer shows how Voigt arrived at the number of 9 million, and to be blunt, Voigt pulled the calculation out of his ass.
Voigt’s new model calculation worked in two steps. He first calculated the number of witches per century in Europe: 133 x 71,000,000 / 11,000 = 858,454.55. Multiplied by eleven for the alleged number of years of persecution, however, he would have come to the round figure of 9.443.000. Voigt, however, rounded off his number before and counted: 858.454 x 11 = 9. 442,994. For Quedlinburg residents, the total number of victims decreased accordingly, with 12,000 inhabitants, for example, 8,656,083 victims.
For Voigt’s number to have been correct, there would have had to have been 858,454 people executed for witchcraft in Europe every single century for eleven centuries, starting at the sixth century until the end of the witch craze in the seventeenth century. The records of witch trials don’t support these numbers.
So where did support for the nine million number come from? At first, nineteenth-century scholars, who ran across Voigt’s quote, accepted it as fact and repeated it. It’s worth mentioning that there was a STRONG anti-Catholic movement in Europe in the nineteenth century, especially in France and Germany, and that many Protestant polemicists of the time seem to have gravitated toward the quote as proof that papal infallibility, declared during the nineteenth century, was not true–and they increased the numbers accordingly, boosting the estimated numbers of death from 100,000 to “several hundred thousand” to “perhaps a million” to “several million.” Voigt’s oddly precise high number was a gift to the polemicists...even though serious scholars basically ignored it.
But even then the myth might have died out…if not for the Nazis.
In his book “The Myth of the Twentieth Century” published in 1930, Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946), editor-in-chief of the Nazi party magazine “Volkischer Beobachter”, expressed the view that the witch-madness was due to the debt of the “rattled, desolate Rome” Papacy as successor to the Etruscan Haruspex.
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In addition to the racist ideologue, two other groupings were also interested in the theme of the European witchcraft prosecutions in the “Kirchenkampf” of the Nazi movement: Volkspolitik feminism and the Neo-Germanic movements of faith. Mathilde Ludendorff (1877-1966), beside her husband Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937) leader of a Neo-Pagan group [54] , devoted especially to the Hexenthema 1934 with editions of over a hundred thousand copies the pamphlet “Christian cruelty to German women”. In this context, the nine-million theory revived. “Christians” had, according to Ms. Ludendorff, taught the “witch-wits, raised witchcraft to religious duty, and encouraged this crime to women.”
Paganism--and discrediting the Catholic Church--were both huge deals in Nazi Germany, so that “nine million” number spread. And, y’know, that number didn’t just evaporate after the war.
Ursula von Mangoldt swaggered in her introduction to Gerald B. Gardner's book "origin and reality of the witches" of 1965 "Nine million" witches, a figure that is not found in Gardner's text itself. According to Rosenberg and Ludendorff, the translator is justified by the fact that the witches' persecution is the expression "of the struggle of the Christian church against old pagan customs[.]”
The Origin and Reality of the Witches is probably a translation of the German title of Gardner’s last book, The Meaning of Witchcraft (published in English in 1959), which does indeed deal with both.
Now, Gardner was a huge deal in pagan circles; many refer to him as the Father of Wicca. That number ending up in a book by him, even if it was written by the translator and not Gardner, would have been highly influential. And as witchcraft and the occult became more and more popular, non-German writers on pagan and occult subjects began increasing the number of executed witches as well. Sandro Stratta spoke vaguely of “millions of witches” dying. And, to quote Behringer again: And the English Esoteric historian Richard Cavendish said in his "History of Magic" without proof, "the victims of the witch persecutions may have numbered from 250,000 to a million."
Feminism in 1960s and 1970s America latched onto historical witches, identifying them as old-fashioned rebels who were punished for and died for being different. The problem started when--as usual--numbers started getting inflated...and when feminists started claiming that the execution of witches was a widespread persecution of all women.
Outside of professional historiography, a rapid increase in the number of victims has now occurred in the USA. "Millions", Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English in 1973, executed "Witches, Midwives and Nurses" in their small but influential booklet, a now classic publication of the new women's movement, which propagates the conspiracy theory that doctors wished to eliminate women from the health care with witchcraft , [76] One of the most influential products of academic feminism, "Gyn / Ecology" by the American religious philosophy philosopher Mary Daly, raises these figures to the centerpiece of her thesis of the oppressive character "patriarchy" [77]. In this context, in the 1970s, explicit comparisons of witchcraft with the Holocaust to the European Jews were made. Apart from Andrea Dworkin, Mary Daly especially wanted to surpass the genocide with a "gynozide"... [78]
Purkiss diagnosed a kind of competition with the result "that women would have suffered more than all victims of racism and genocide." The existence on the "burning" indicates the parallelization with the crematoria, if not on Hiroshima or Dresden. The message that the persecution of witches had actually been a prosecution of women, and that this had far exceeded the Holocaust quantitatively, was once again born at the interface between esoteric neo-paganism and feminism, where authors such as Miriam Simos (Starhawk) deny their livelihood with "magical" services. [80] As in the case of popular feminism, up to 13 million witches are given new superlatives here with sacrificial numbers, without the trace of a document[.]
By now, the “nine million witches” concept is ingrained in many minds as a fact...even though it was made up by Gottfried Voigt in the eighteenth century. It has been disproven for years. But those who believe it don’t bother to prove its truth; they take it as self-evident. Even worse, many believe that the LACK of evidence for this is proof not only of the deaths of nine million women, but also proof of a conspiracy to conceal those deaths, a conspiracy against all women.
This ignores the fact that men, too, were executed for witchcraft. But it makes those who believe the myth feel strong and brave, as if they are fighting against a huge and monolithic evil (in this case, the patriarchy). The same reason that the Nazis and the nineteenth-century polemicists liked the myth, in fact.
There’s not a lot of grandeur in the facts--that a large but unknown number of men and women were executed for witchcraft, particularly in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and particularly in Germany, and that a German man made up some numbers about how many had died in an attempt to convey how awful the witch trials were. We like to feel strong and powerful, the heroes of our own stories. The truth just says, “We believed something that wasn’t true. We goofed.”
Small wonder that the truth--that we don’t know how many people were executed as witches, but that there’s no documentation supporting the “nine million” allegation--hasn’t caught on. Given a choice between believing reality and believing a story that makes them feel powerful and important, people will almost always pick the story.
#nine million witches#gottfried christian voigt#occult and paganism writers#1960s feminism#the power of story
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Everything I read in 2018
I read the following books in 2018, in chronological order.
Books with an asterisk(*) particularly affected me. My top five-ish are: Alice Notley -- The Descent of Alette, Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Interstices, Kiki Petrosino -- Witch Wife, Terrance Hayes -- American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Selah Saterstrom -- Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, and Ottessa Moshfegh -- My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
This year, I also read a lot for Inverted Syntax, a new literary journal for which I’m an editor.
See jesicacarsondavis.net for previous years.
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Arundhati Roy -- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Barbara Mauriello -- Making Memory Boxes Richard McGuire -- Here Tana French -- The Secret Place Dylan Krieger -- Giving Godhead Roberto Bolaño -- The Savage Detectives Renee Gladman -- Newcomer Can’t Swim Melissa Kwasny -- Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950 Philip K. Dick -- Ubik Paula Hawkins -- Into the Water Jean Valentine -- Shirt in Heaven Alex Lemon -- Feverland Sawnie Morris -- Her, Infinite Don Delillo -- White Noise *Selah Saterstrom -- Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics Gregory Dowling -- Ascension Elizabeth Robinson -- Rumor CAConrad -- While Standing in Line for Death Renee Gladman -- Prose Architectures Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Headwaters CAConrad -- YOU DON'T HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE MY NEMESIS Tana French -- The Trespasser Donna Tartt -- The Little Friend *Rachel Cusk -- Outline Taisia Kitaiskaia -- Literary Witches Tara Nolan -- Raised Bed Revolution Sarah Waters -- The Little Stranger Halle Butler -- Jillian Meg Wolitzer -- The Wife Michelle Tea -- Modern Tarot Courtney Weber -- Tarot for One Bethany C. Morrow -- Mem *Samantha Hunt -- The Seas Rosalie Knecht -- Who Is Vera Kelly? *jamie mortara -- some planet Christina Dalcher -- Vox Jennifer Egan -- Look at Me Peter Frase -- Four Futures: Life After Capitalism Carmen Maria Machado -- Her Body and Other Parties Fatimah Asghar -- If They Come for Us Laura Lippman -- Every Secret Thing Allison E. Joseph -- Corporal Muse Jessica Knoll -- Luckiest Girl Alive Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English -- Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers Alexander Chee -- How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Ilene Rosen -- Saladish *Kiki Petrosino -- Witch Wife Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett -- Good Omens *Terese Marie Mailhot -- Heart Berries Dorothea Lasky -- Milk *Rebecca Makkai -- The Great Believers Timothy Snyder -- On Tyranny Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Poetry as Insurgent Art Monica McClure -- Tender Data *Alice Notley -- The Descent of Alette J. T. Ellison -- Lie to Me Yoel Hoffmann (Ed.) -- Japanese Death Poems *Ottessa Moshfegh -- My Year of Rest and Relaxation Sherwin Bitsui -- Dissolve *Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Interstices Diane di Prima -- The Poetry Deal Megan Abbott -- The Fever Karen Auvinen -- Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living *Modern Women -- Many Moons 2018 Vol 2: July - December Nicolai Houm -- The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland *Terrance Hayes -- American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
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OTP/ENDGAME/ETC List
Under the cut. This is not meant to piss anyone off. This is not meant to play favorites. This doesn’t mean other ships/verses aren’t possible. Many of my muse don’t have any at all, honestly. * means that the muse has no ship active. If the muse name is blank but has ships, it means that no one has caught their eye enough to justify this title as of yet.
Muse of the muses below: @likepapertowns , @tranquilhearted , @gxnnabelegends , @urbanesyndicate , @iroleplaynow
Lesya Volcov - Daniel Walden
Samuel Alexander - Xander Rogers
Peter Voigt - *
Leto Anasas-Bradey - Aiden Prior
Jeremiah Temple - *
Victoria Alexander - *
Abel Teller - Laine Coleman
Orion Spencer - *
Briar Randal-Moray -
Chelsea Ironside - * (muse in works)
Ruslan Denisovich - * (muse in works)
Mason Monroe - *
Lee Alexander - (I’m stuck on Lee: he has two candidates -- AJ Kennedy and Gemma Duffy)
Dante Notoriani - Darcy Delfino
Marisol Rivera - *
Cole Coulson - Levi Alexander -
Grace McKinnish - *
Gregory Volcov - Cassidy Chase
Aleksey Volcov - Harmony Barnes
Quinn Talmont - James Maverick
Fallon Kennedy - *
Portia Bradley - Kyle Porter
Phoenix Lenderman - Serenity Spencer
Landon Randal -
Cade Moray -
Brady Porter - Danielle Thomas
Destiny Tucker - *
Joanna Temple - August Duffy
Harley Lenderman -
Emilio Notoriani - *
Kierra Randa - Milo Coulson
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Exit 0 - USA, 2019 - overview and reviews
Exit 0 – USA, 2019 – overview and reviews
‘If these walls could talk… they’d scream.’
Exit 0 is a 2019 American thriller feature film about a young couple that finds a videotape of murder from several years before in their hotel room.
Written, co-produced and directed by E.B. Hughes (The Midnight Caller) from a storyline co-written with Gregory Voigt, the movie stars Gabe Fazio (Crypto), Augie Duke (Clown Fear; Wild Boar; Blood Craft; T…
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Save the Date: TV Premieres and Film Releases
The schedule of television premieres and film releases continues. Below is a list of upcoming television shows and films that participated in New York State’s production and post-production tax credit programs with upcoming release/premiere dates.
Shine – Oct. 5 — GVN Releasing Two Puerto Rican brothers from New York's Spanish Harlem and the street's best salsa dancers, are separated after a tragedy only to reunite years later on opposing sides of gentrification. Starring: David Zayas, Jorge Burgos, Gilbert Salvidar (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Private Life— Oct. 5 —Likely Story/Netflix An author is undergoing multiple fertility therapies to get pregnant, putting her relationship with her husband on edge. Starring: Kathryn Hahn, Paul Giamatti (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Madam Secretary – Season 5 – Oct. 7 – CBS This series stars Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, the shrewd, determined Secretary of State who drives international diplomacy and circumvents protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues, both at the White House and at home. Starring: Téa Leoni, Tim Daly (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
The Walking Dead – Season 9—Oct. 7—AMC This series captures the ongoing human drama following a zombie apocalypse and follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, who are traveling in search of a safe and secure home. However, instead of the zombies, it is the living who remain that truly become the walking dead. Starring: Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Danai Gurira (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production)
Blindspot—Season 4—Oct. 12—Warner Bros./NBC A beautiful woman is found naked in Times Square, her memory erased, her body covered in a series of coded tattoos. But as "Jane Doe" and the FBI team who discovered her work to decipher, investigate and solve the complex treasure map of her body, an ever-widening web of conspiracy and corruption is revealed, as is the truth behind Jane Doe's real identity and the identity of the people who sent her to the FBI in the first place. Starring: Sullivan Stapleton, Jamie Alexander, Rob Brown (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Beautiful Darkness—Oct. 12—Locomotive A funny and irresistible story of a young girl who literally cannot see or hear her mother, even though she is living with her under the same roof. With the help of an eccentric psychiatrist, and a local, accidental hero, our heroine has to grow up, but falls in love and eventually takes hold of her future - despite not being able to see what's right in front of her. Starring: Chloë Sevigny, Aidan Turner (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Johnny Gruesome—Oct. 16—Red Hill Movies Based on the award-winning horror novel by Gregory Lamberson. When rebellious high school student Johnny Grissom is murdered, he returns from the grave as a revenge crazed supernatural creature. Starring: Anthony De La Torre, Byron Brown, April Panaggio (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
The Super—Oct. 19—Saban Films This film centers on the mysterious disappearance of several tenants at a luxury New York City apartment building. Flueger portrays the building’s new superintendent and a former NYPD officer, who immediately suspects the strange maintenance man, played by Kilmer. With his daughters’ lives on the line, he must decipher the cryptic riddles in which Kilmer’s character speaks to solve the case of the disappearances before it’s too late. Starring: Patrick Flueger, Val Kilmer, Louisa Krause (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? --Oct. 19—Fox Searchlight McCarthy stars as Lee Israel, the best-selling celebrity biographer (and cat lover) who made her living in the 1970s and 1980s profiling the likes of Katherine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee found herself unable to get published because she had fallen out of step with the marketplace, she turned her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack. Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Mid90s – Oct. 19 – A24 Written and directed by Jonah Hill, this film follows Stevie, a 13-year-old in 90s-era LA who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop. Starring: Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterson, Lucas Hedges (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production)
Wildlife –Oct. 19 – IFC Films Fourteen-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry—a housewife and a golf pro—in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job—and his sense of purpose—he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves. Suddenly forced into the role of an adult, Joe witnesses his mother’s struggle as she tries to keep her head above water. Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production)
Stuck – Oct. 26—SpeakEasy Films An original pop musical film about six strangers who get stuck on a New York City subway together and change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. Starring: Giancarlo Esposito, Amy Madigan (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Viper Club—Oct. 26—Roadside Attractions This film follows a veteran emergency room nurse secretly struggling to free her grown son, a journalist, from capture by a terrorist group. After running into roadblocks with government agencies, she discovers a clandestine community of journalists and advocates who might be able to help her. Starring: Giancarlo Esposito, Amy Madigan (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Ray Donovan – Season 6—Oct. 28—Showtime Now set in NYC, Ray Donovan (starring Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award nominee Liev Schreiber) is the go-to guy who makes the problems of celebrities, superstar athletes, and business moguls disappear. Starring: Liev Schreiber, Jon Voigt, Susan Sarandon (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Tell Me A Story—Season 1—Oct. 31—CBS The world's most beloved fairy tales are reimagined as a dark and twisted psychological thriller set in modern day New York City, the first season of this serialized drama interweaves "The Three Little Pigs," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "Jack and the Beanstalk" into an epic and subversive tale of love, loss, greed, revenge, and murder. Starring: Kim Cattrall, Billy Magnussen, James Wolk (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
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Assignment 1 - Outline
Assessment #1 - Studio Review ASSESSMENT #1: THE DREAM There is a rich history of the dream in art and as such there is much that you can draw influence from. In this project you really do get to let loose with your creativity. Dreams rarely are ruled by logic as imagery, time and space overlap while the uncanny brings strangeness to even the most ordinary. Your goal is to explore this world of dreams by using your dreams or the dreams of others to make five images. You can use dreams that have appeared in films, TV , literature or songs or you can make one up. The photographs don't need to be utterly fantastic, i.e. The Space Shuttle appearing in your bedroom etc just strange like dreams are. And since you have use film and no Photoshop etc you can't get too complicated, you will need to work with the simplest of forms.
The images can take the form of a series or be sequential. A series is a group of images that come from one collective idea about a concept but are not viewed in any definite order. A sequence is like a filmic story board where there is a very definite order from one to five that tells a story i.e. We look at image number one and two etc. The bottom line is that the images form a narrative, a story. It doesn't have to be, and it's probably better if it doesn't a clear and easily readable story, it can simply imply. The best stories are the ones that don't give us all the answers, they leave elements untold so we can play with the concept in our minds and maybe come up with different answers. Dreams often lack logic they don't make sense in a normal way and it's that strangeness that is compelling. So you should be working as much as possible with metaphor or the symbols for things perhaps rather than the exact thing itself. ( an image of someone sitting in a kitchen chair thinking and acting as if they are driving a car is stranger and more compelling that a picture of them really driving a car, although of course there are ways of making that look dream-like too). Artists to research;: Ralph Gibson, Jerry Uelsmann, Gregory Crewdson, Trent Parke, Christian Voigt. You will need to hand in 3 x A4 prints plus a 200-300 word artist statement A4, typed, single spaced. On the 7th of July by 4.00 pm
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