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Online at @nybooks.com, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs | A. S. Hamrah
In December 2019, three months before the pandemic, I was standing on a subway platform in Brooklyn when I recognized a prominent older film critic also
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December 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Online at @nybooks.com, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
The world’s least updated substack returns! With a mean review of Sentimental Value! Give it a read why don’t ya!
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Flattering the Film Bros
Sentimental Value? More like Sentimental P-U! It stinks!
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December 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The world’s least updated substack returns! With a mean review of Sentimental Value! Give it a read why don’t ya!
reallysmart.substack.com/p/flattering...
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SIRAT (great movie!) owes a not insignificant debt to the Monte Hellman westerns, especially 1966’s RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND, right down to the climactic scaling of a desert cliff. Two tense, dreamy treks through the desert of the mind.
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
SIRAT (great movie!) owes a not insignificant debt to the Monte Hellman westerns, especially 1966’s RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND, right down to the climactic scaling of a desert cliff. Two tense, dreamy treks through the desert of the mind.
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I think criticism in recent years has been apt to talk a bit too much about the privilege of individual authors & too little about general material conditions and how they influence the fiction of a given period. I was very glad to try to address that by writing this.
“The death of the suburban novel…may be of interest primarily to academics and literary hobbyists. The death of the middle-class society from which it sprung, on the other hand, is a national tragedy.” —Adelle Waldman
The Life and Death of the Suburban Novel | Adelle Waldman
Remember the suburban novel? Books about attractive white families in nice houses who turn out to be miserable? Examples include Richard Yates’s
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September 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I think criticism in recent years has been apt to talk a bit too much about the privilege of individual authors & too little about general material conditions and how they influence the fiction of a given period. I was very glad to try to address that by writing this.
It’s Bread Week on Great British Bake Off and “Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean” Week on my substack! Link below!
September 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It’s Bread Week on Great British Bake Off and “Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean” Week on my substack! Link below!
Had a little fun at the expense of old movie audiences this week on the substack: reallysmart.substack.com/p/why-are-ol...
Why Are Old Movie Audiences So Annoying?
A report from the front lines of LA cinephilia
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July 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Had a little fun at the expense of old movie audiences this week on the substack: reallysmart.substack.com/p/why-are-ol...
Jesse Waters Mark Twain Prize loading
February 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Jesse Waters Mark Twain Prize loading
Maybe my favorite Lynch quote
January 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Maybe my favorite Lynch quote
Went long on Camille Bordas’ latest novel THE MATERIAL, performing stand-up, and the comedy content boom of the 2010s: reallysmart.substack.com/p/is-this-an...
Is This Anything?
A review of Camille Bordas' THE MATERIAL
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December 17, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Went long on Camille Bordas’ latest novel THE MATERIAL, performing stand-up, and the comedy content boom of the 2010s: reallysmart.substack.com/p/is-this-an...