Today, we’re proud to bring to your attention some overlooked or under-analyzed aspects of modern life. Namely, why in hell was a whole hour cut out of Blue Velvet?
-Depression Lessons at the Notebook.
-David Denby takes on Dark Horse and Prometheus.
-It’s Novella Month, in case you didn’t know.
-An hour of deleted scenes from Blue Velvet.
-Francine Prose responds to the New York Times “Kill List” piece in the New York Review of Books.
-Another (brilliant) Žižek interview.
-Event: this Wednesday, the inaugural meeting of the Paris Review’s new Literary Salon at the Strand.
-Richard Ford’s Canada.
-Calvin and Hobbes was, in fact, profound.
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