Before Whit Stillman’s recently released Love & Friendship, there was the
strange, frat-house comedy of manners, Damsels in Distress—his personal
favorite.
Whit Stillman needs to go shopping.
“I really have to
Two women approached my buddy Todd and me at the 2016 Los Angeles Times Festival
of Books.
One of them asked, “Are you writers?”
In nanoseconds worthy of a Cray Supercomputer, I was
I keep forgetting the native in nativity
And wait expectant instead for the fulfilled prophecies
Of Norman Rockwell, the revelations of Frank Capra,
For Bing Crosby to wake me to a December
So
After the enamored guitars and driving, straightforward vocals that
characterized their first trio of albums (Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer),
and the menace of digital angst that haunted the second three (Kid
Seven pairs of eyes looked back at me as I settled into the chair at the head of
the table. I was a young teacher, barely twenty-four, and this was my first
class
