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Cinema’s Most Realistic Psychopath, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
January 17, 2014
On the Shelf
Still from
No Country for Old Men
, 2007.
The Gordon Lish Bot is trolling Twitter
, demanding that writers craft their 140 characters more meticulously. It’s fine invective, but masochists will wish for the sting of the real thing.
Science has
cast its formidable gaze on movie psychopaths
, declaring
No Country for Old Men
’s Anton Chigurh the most “realistic.” And yet no one, living or dead, has ever dared to sport that haircut.
The
curiously robust posthumous life
of V. C. Andrews.
Lewis Carroll’s “
Wise Words About Letter-Writing
” still apply in the lawless land of electronic mail.
This
introduction to Korean alphabet art
is full of colorful translations: “Using a dustpan, the black mountain is split to form letters, and then the canvas is propped up vertically, and stains caused by gravity are left behind.”
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