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On La Dolce Vita and the Floater in My Eye
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It was 1960 and I saw La Dolce Vita for the first time; it was the only movie in my experience in which patrons got up and left their rows. The movie was complex to my mind. I didn’t get it, nor did I understand that Fellini was educating us all in how to see […]
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The Skinny on Sojourner
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After writing a book of short stories and a Holocaust fiction, what I write now weighs on me. It reminds me of that writer’s cliche of having to come up to the parity of the first published book; the second novel, I suppose, is a killer. The irony about Sojourner is that it emerged from […]
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Untidy Lives, I Say to Myself
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February is a bleak month for me. I light a candle for Rochelle, now dead for nine years. On February 11 she would have been 71. On February 15, 1970 we were wed. And on February 14 is St. Valentine’s day, consumer mischief day. So February was a combination of events for us and now […]