The modern approach to the genre of memoir has become a strange examination on the fragility of the genre itself.…
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
While Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is far from a perfect film, it unrelentingly grabs the attention of…
Our Infinite Playlist
Read Garrett’s newest contribution to Assignment Magazine, “Our Infinite Playlist.” Garrett reflects on crafting the perfect playlist for his graduating…
The Debut by Anita Brookner
It would be no surprise to me to find that Wes Anderson took some of his more quirky, melancholic characters…
Selected Paragraphs…
Follow this link over to Assignment Magazine Online where you can read a paragraph from Garrett’s MFA thesis and new…
The Line
The Line by Garrett Zecker Click above to read the new piece published today at Assignment Magazine Online.
The Help (2011)
Based on Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling novel of the same title, The Help is a frame story about black maids working…
Welcome
Welcome to the new website for author Garrett Zecker. This website will contain a wide variety of material, from book…
#747 Amadeus (1984)
Amadeus is Miloš Forman’s brilliant adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s stage play of the same name that mesmerized Broadway for almost three…
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
A spectacular blooming-lily of a book, Moonglow takes Chabon’s grandfather’s complicated and hazy-bordered personal family history and reinterprets it through the lens of…
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