ned schantz--the smartest person i know--recently published a book on hitchcock and hospitality. it is now out in paperback!!!! if you don't love it, i will personally send you your money back... sunypress.edu/Books/H/Hitchc…
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join joyce carol oates, @rmpanovka, and me tomorrow in a conversation about which commonwealth dystopian novel is more depressing!
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revisiting Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go"--novel & film--for a panel discussion. what a very depressing novel!--beautifully spare, low-keyed & poetic.View quoted post on X
so different from the dramatic terrain of Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale" which in some ways it resembles.
I had forgotten how meekly submissive the "clone" characters are to their fate. this accounts for the extreme monochromatic despair of the novel while in Atwood there is plenty of resistance, plot.
two radically different explorations of dystopia.