When the 'pause' carries the emotional charge...
I responded to a post the other day about which scene in a movie still gets you after all these years. Well, there are many, but this one I’m about to divulge has so much to say about “art.”
I responded with the scene in Field of Dreams when Costner’s character’s ghost dad emerges from the corn field. They have a conversation. The ghost is about to return to the field. Costner looks at him walking away (I think) and says, “Hey, Dad, you want…you wanna have a catch?”
How to Sell an Old White Guy's Novel...
How to sell an old white guy’s novel when the old white guy is really a Greek-Syrian-Southerner-New Yorker, Midwestern, Westerner.
WORDS MATTER: WHY I MADE ONE UP FOR THE TITLE OF MY BOOK
When I decided to write Wrequiem, I wasn’t necessarily thinking about satire, per se. I was really thinking of a book like the three funniest novels I’ve ever read—Catch-22, A Confederacy of Dunces, and The Sellout. … These novels are not just funny. They make you uncomfortable as you laugh. Like, should I really be laughing this hard at this scene, or laughing at all? They make you examine the human condition. Most importantly, they pick at the scabs of your own prejudices, privileges, cruelties, and subliminal thought processes. They make you question what you think you know about the world around you.
WREQUIEM AT THE RED ROCKS: SATIRE AND ABSURDISM IN TODAY’S AMERICA
When I decided to write Wrequiem, I wasn’t necessarily thinking about satire, per se. I was really thinking of a book like the three funniest novels I’ve ever read—Catch-22, A Confederacy of Dunces, and The Sellout. … These novels are not just funny. They make you uncomfortable as you laugh. Like, should I really be laughing this hard at this scene, or laughing at all? They make you examine the human condition. Most importantly, they pick at the scabs of your own prejudices, privileges, cruelties, and subliminal thought processes. They make you question what you think you know about the world around you.