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RIP Gary Indiana

Posted on October 24, 2024 by robchristopher

RIP Gary Indiana, the matchless novelist, essayist, and author. I was fortunate enough to have dinner with him one night in June 2022. His publisher Dan Simon set it up after I had expressed my love of his writing. Over … Continue reading →

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3 things about Cord Jefferson’s AMERICAN FICTION

Posted on May 26, 2024 by robchristopher

American Fiction [2023] 1. Wandering through the surf in slippers. 2. “That’s cool. But maybe we could maybe do that with a P-H instead?” 3. A blast from Mozart’s “Requiem.”

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3 things about Griffin Dunne’s JOAN DIDION: THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD

Posted on March 5, 2024 by robchristopher

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold [2017] 1. During a party at their house, she walks into her child’s bedroom and finds drug paraphernalia 2. Ice-cold Coke in the fridge at all times. 3. Collecting the latest gossip during … Continue reading →

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3 things about Eva Vitija’s LOVING HIGHSMITH

Posted on March 28, 2023 by robchristopher

Loving Highsmith [2022] 1. The decision by the filmmaker to neglect mentioning Edith’s Diary mystifies me. 2. Highsmith presenting an award to Gena Rowlands at the Berlin Film Festival. 3. Moving into a house that she knows will be her … Continue reading →

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Freedom.

Posted on May 11, 2017 by robchristopher

“Sometimes I did exactly what I wanted to do all day—I lay on the sofa and read a book, or I typed up an old diary—and then the most terrifying sort of despair would descend on me: the very freedom … Continue reading →

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Not worth reading.

Posted on November 20, 2016 by robchristopher

“Every book has sentences in it the writer hates, that the writer cannot get rid of, that the writer cannot live without. Any writer who cuts out every sentence that he hates is a writer not worth reading.” — Daniel … Continue reading →

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It’s like writing.

Posted on June 8, 2014 by robchristopher

As many have pointed out, editing is a lot like writing. I’d go even further and say that it’s also a lot like rewriting, which I guess should be self-evident but is easy to lose sight of when you’re not … Continue reading →

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“They got to the bar of the hotel by taking an elevator in the center of the mall.”

Posted on May 4, 2014 by robchristopher

That’s the opening sentence from “Nightcap,” an excerpt from my long-lost unpublished novella Tiny Apocalypse, which appears in the brand new issue no. 5 of Graze magazine. It’s really something to see this story live again. Kristopher Schmelzer specially took some … Continue reading →

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I told him to stay the fuck away from my cookie tray.

Posted on November 22, 2013 by robchristopher

[Some freewriting from earlier this week]. I told him to stay the fuck away from my cookie tray. In fact I’ve told him once if I’ve told him a thousand times. But that bastard at the end of the hallway, … Continue reading →

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A paper edit, circa 1997.

Posted on October 14, 2013 by robchristopher

This page in an old spiral notebook represents the last time I had worked on Pause of the Clock: I still haven’t been able to unearth a copy of the “final” script; this is the closest thing I have to … Continue reading →

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