#807 Spoorloos (The Vanishing) (1988)

Spoorloos or The Vanishing is an incredible 1988 Dutch film from George Sluizer that presents the inner self analysis of … More

Coldiron’s Junk Film

Katharine Coldiron’s JUNK FILM is a book that was recommended to me for my voracious taste in tacky, unreliable, exploitative, … More

#763 The Color Purple (1985) and The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

Somehow it took me three English degrees, writing and teaching for over twenty years, and a hazy summer in 2023 … More

Repo Man (1984)

This is one of those films that just happens to be on the Criterion Collection’s list, but not on the … More

#549 Walkabout (1971)

What an incredible film. I picked up Nicholas Roeg’s Walkabout (1971, Criterion Spine #10) after doing a recent binge on … More

Bowie in 2023: #629 THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976), THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH by Walter Tevis, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH by Dan Watters, LAZARUS by David Bowie and Edna Walsh, ALWAYS CRASHING IN THE SAME CAR by Lance Olsen, BOWIE’S BOOKSHELF by John O’Connell, and DAVID BOWIE: THE LAST INTERVIEW 

Over the past few months, after being given a new novel about Bowie’s life to review for The Collidescope (at … More

Nomadland by Jessica Bruder, #1245 Nomadland (2020), and a Unit Plan

This is going to be a relatively long post as I have spent the better part of the past few … More

The Life of a Visionary, “All About Me!” by Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks’ Autobiography is a triumph of a book that I read through once, dipped in a bunch of times … More

Larry Wessel’s Palace of Wonders

Larry Wessel is the modern curator of the strange underground of American Folk Kitsch. It is an important role he … More

Barrytown in the Time of COVID: Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy in Print and on Film in 2021.

Before the pandemic began, my library would host weekly, and one additional monthly book sale. As an official patron and … More