A Shameless study in plot and character
Christoph Waltz explains his love, and mine, for Tarantino's dialogue
An Homage to The Shining
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Reading Robert Traver: a big murder in a small town
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Food for thought: working at McDonald's
"Well, when you get hungry enough, you're gonna figure it out"
The Life and Times of Things
Essays, History and Memory, Identity, Popular Culture, Public HistoryJessica McCraryeconomics, Marketplace, material culture, meaning, objects and meaning, value
American Dream, sure, but also, Chinese Dream, French Dream: a changing reality
Create in NYC, or: fabric that I love and other things
Graphic and thoughtful: Bits of MoMA
A collection [On National Geographic love, and deciding what to keep]
TV Show: on urban white girls in 2012
Expectant parents, back away from the baby-name books
Touching the Quilt, learning its stories
A movie about culture, to influence our culture today
On marriage, gender, income, babies, single ladies
1988: "History will record..."
My Pop Art Series
"With the digital age come new conceptions of authorship."
On Christmas and material memory