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    The 'Recently Watched Films' Thread

    Finally saw Across the Spiderverse. Yep, as great as everyone's been saying.
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    Christmas Traditions over the World

    Ususally watch Midnight Mass at St. Patricks Cathedral on TV. Presents Christmas morning, big dinner. Whatever big football or basketball game is on, honestly.
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    Recently Begun Books

    Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Really fun to listen to Watson's voice.
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    The 'Recently Watched Films' Thread

    Killers of the Flower Moon. The runtime flew by, which is amazing. Very sad with a lot of humor throughout (the bumbling, evil criminals are also deeply stupid). Maybe DiCaprio's best performance.
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    Recently finished books?

    Mark Helprin -- Paris in the Present Tense A pleasant old-fashioned narrative like all of Helprin's novels that I've read, sad in a way that isn't maudlin and provides uplift.
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    Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 Speculation

    Very nice.
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    My Nobel Report Card

    I don't like Blindness either. Try The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, in which he prsents a very human Jesus and very funny Satan.
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    Nabokov Against Dostoevsky

    Nabokov liked Bleak House. I thought he liked the rest of him too.
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    Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 Speculation

    Two authors you are rooting for the most to win: Murnane and Krasznahorkai Two authors you think are most likely to win: Fosse and Nadas. One author you think will win one day, just not this year: Krasznahorkai One author you don't want to win (and why): There's no one like that I think would...
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    Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 Speculation

    Search me. Still don't know what "ideal direction" really means.
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    Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 Speculation

    No. They miss too many good writers as it is.
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    Ralph Ellison

    He struggled for years with a second novel. Then the manuscript got burned in a house fire and he had to start a lot of it over again.
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    Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 Speculation

    Bloom would probably say Cohen and maybe Nell Freudenberger and William Giraldi. (I don't think he liked Franzen.)
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    Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023)

    When you see someone trending on Twitter and say to yourself, Oh no...
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    Main character: The city

    James Joyce -- Dublin Mark Helprin -- New York Andrei Bely -- Petersburg
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