Brice Ezell
@briceezell.bsky.social
Writer, critic (@PopMatters), teacher. ATL.
PhD in English, University of Texas.
Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy.
Writing a book on Tom Stoppard.
Also a denizen of debate-land.
https://boxd.it/1rEO5
PhD in English, University of Texas.
Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy.
Writing a book on Tom Stoppard.
Also a denizen of debate-land.
https://boxd.it/1rEO5
Medievalists will be pleased to know that Atlanta Vintage Books has Greenblatt’s THE SWERVE filed under fiction.
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Medievalists will be pleased to know that Atlanta Vintage Books has Greenblatt’s THE SWERVE filed under fiction.
As a film in its own right, undeniably stunning and emotionally powerful. As an adaptation: kind of a failure. The pros undeniably outweigh the cons, but part of me wonders if there’s an unadaptability to Denis Johnson’s novella.
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
As a film in its own right, undeniably stunning and emotionally powerful. As an adaptation: kind of a failure. The pros undeniably outweigh the cons, but part of me wonders if there’s an unadaptability to Denis Johnson’s novella.
This excellent line by @hamrahrama.bsky.social about a film I didn't like encapsulates in part what I, a guy who perhaps masochistically got a PhD in English on this kind of dramatic literature, love about Yorgos in the last decade. KINDS OF KINDNESS is straight up theatre of the absurd.
November 3, 2025 at 4:32 AM
This excellent line by @hamrahrama.bsky.social about a film I didn't like encapsulates in part what I, a guy who perhaps masochistically got a PhD in English on this kind of dramatic literature, love about Yorgos in the last decade. KINDS OF KINDNESS is straight up theatre of the absurd.
This is, for my money, the best run of movies by a living director at the moment.
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
This is, for my money, the best run of movies by a living director at the moment.
"It's RIDICULOUS and SOCIALISM to ask that the GOVERNMENT get involved in health care... unless I need it pwetty please!"
November 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"It's RIDICULOUS and SOCIALISM to ask that the GOVERNMENT get involved in health care... unless I need it pwetty please!"
It’s Warren Zevon time on Wheel
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
It’s Warren Zevon time on Wheel
I see The Daily Wire is trying to corner the market on "American 'Catholics' who are actually Protestants and just use 'trad' Catholic optics to legitimize their own beliefs"
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I see The Daily Wire is trying to corner the market on "American 'Catholics' who are actually Protestants and just use 'trad' Catholic optics to legitimize their own beliefs"
This is a new one for the scam text playbook: “invite your mark to become the protagonist of a gothic novel”
October 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is a new one for the scam text playbook: “invite your mark to become the protagonist of a gothic novel”
Here’s my PTA rank now that I’ve seen all of his movies (PUNCH-DRUNK my one missing piece). 4-6 a logjam that could change at any time.
October 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Here’s my PTA rank now that I’ve seen all of his movies (PUNCH-DRUNK my one missing piece). 4-6 a logjam that could change at any time.
These guys’ brand of noodle prog wore on me after COMA ECLIPTIC (PARALLAX II being the fly in the ointment moment for me), but at times, they really do still Got It
October 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
These guys’ brand of noodle prog wore on me after COMA ECLIPTIC (PARALLAX II being the fly in the ointment moment for me), but at times, they really do still Got It
I am excited to see the film adaptation of Denis Johnson's TRAIN DREAMS but, not gonna lie, having a hard time imagining how the film will adapt the final paragraph, my favorite in all of fiction.
October 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I am excited to see the film adaptation of Denis Johnson's TRAIN DREAMS but, not gonna lie, having a hard time imagining how the film will adapt the final paragraph, my favorite in all of fiction.
Watching the Democrats once again talk about needing to sell out core social values, I’m reminded of this amazing moment from the E1 Joe Biden saga. “you’ve performed liminal spaces in bodies, jack”
October 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Watching the Democrats once again talk about needing to sell out core social values, I’m reminded of this amazing moment from the E1 Joe Biden saga. “you’ve performed liminal spaces in bodies, jack”
And here's some of his California/Central Valley photography, the best of its kind.
September 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
And here's some of his California/Central Valley photography, the best of its kind.
He was one of the people who made the short-lived MTV News writing vertical (the one prematurely killed by the “pivot to video) a must-read. This hilarious piece rebuts the “millennials and avocado toast” gripe from the older generations. web.archive.org/web/20190219...
September 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
He was one of the people who made the short-lived MTV News writing vertical (the one prematurely killed by the “pivot to video) a must-read. This hilarious piece rebuts the “millennials and avocado toast” gripe from the older generations. web.archive.org/web/20190219...
“We woke up one morning, and fell a little further down. For sure it’s the valley of death.”
September 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“We woke up one morning, and fell a little further down. For sure it’s the valley of death.”
I already had good reason to suspect the guy that wrote the Cormac McCarthy Vanity Fair piece had suspect literary taste and talent, but seeing this.. yeah. I didn't even like INFINITE JEST but, c'mon man
September 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I already had good reason to suspect the guy that wrote the Cormac McCarthy Vanity Fair piece had suspect literary taste and talent, but seeing this.. yeah. I didn't even like INFINITE JEST but, c'mon man
The hippo speaks the truth.
September 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The hippo speaks the truth.
Talked a little Prefab Sprout with @jessehawken.bsky.social today, and was reminded of the delightful little tribute show I saw at the HiFi in NYC back in 2016, with the likes of Sondre Lerche and Skylar Spence contributing. Here's the setlist from the evening.
September 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Talked a little Prefab Sprout with @jessehawken.bsky.social today, and was reminded of the delightful little tribute show I saw at the HiFi in NYC back in 2016, with the likes of Sondre Lerche and Skylar Spence contributing. Here's the setlist from the evening.
I knew I was fully in on Bolano was when, 3/4ths of the way through BY NIGHT IN CHILE, I realized that the character Bolano had created was essentially Chilean Ross Douthat, set in the Pinochet regime. Glad to see one reviewer recognize the similarity! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
September 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I knew I was fully in on Bolano was when, 3/4ths of the way through BY NIGHT IN CHILE, I realized that the character Bolano had created was essentially Chilean Ross Douthat, set in the Pinochet regime. Glad to see one reviewer recognize the similarity! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
GREAT MINDS, @batmansrobyn.bsky.social
September 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
GREAT MINDS, @batmansrobyn.bsky.social
A delightful play. Like Beckett writing an AIRPLANE! style parody of an American domestic drama.
September 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
A delightful play. Like Beckett writing an AIRPLANE! style parody of an American domestic drama.
Finished this thing last night. Like any big novel it has its meanderings, but it kept me hooked until the end. A powerful meditation on genocide in the 20th century. Bolaño really is my guy, I think.
September 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Finished this thing last night. Like any big novel it has its meanderings, but it kept me hooked until the end. A powerful meditation on genocide in the 20th century. Bolaño really is my guy, I think.
Tried to say this On Here the other week, but this is the right way to say it.
September 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Tried to say this On Here the other week, but this is the right way to say it.
Not gonna lie: did not expect this to be an inter-article link on the Wikipedia page for the film ANTZ, let alone the ONLY such link
August 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Not gonna lie: did not expect this to be an inter-article link on the Wikipedia page for the film ANTZ, let alone the ONLY such link
My problem with these posts is that, yes, we obviously do need major public works projects to undo neoliberalism, but the idea that left ideas don't get traction in the US because of lines like "eating bananas is colonialism" has got it exactly wrong. What major politicians talk like that?
August 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
My problem with these posts is that, yes, we obviously do need major public works projects to undo neoliberalism, but the idea that left ideas don't get traction in the US because of lines like "eating bananas is colonialism" has got it exactly wrong. What major politicians talk like that?