Interesting piece on Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal.
“If this were real, you would have some sort of emotion instead of standing there like a rock. Do you want to feel something? Do you want to feel something real? That’s sad. You never will.”
When Your Parents Are Dying Go Be With Them — Mary Gaitskill
“Death makes human beings seem like very small containers that are packed so densely we can only be aware of a fraction of what’s inside us from moment to moment.”
Lucia Berlin’s Roving, Rowdy Life Is Reflected in a Book of Her Stories (NYT 2015)
“A Manual for Cleaning Women” collects 43 stories by Ms. Berlin, who died a little over a decade ago and whose darkly wry work has remained unknown to many.
A Suspense Novelists Trail of Deceptions | The New Yorker
Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his début thriller, “The Woman in the Window.” His life contains even stranger twists.
Brown bear rescued after getting high on hallucinogenic ‘mad honey’ | The Times
Dozens of people a year in Turkey are admitted to hospital for 'mad honey' (deli bal) poisoning. Mad honey is a form of rhododendron honey that can have an hallucinogenic effect if consumed.
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The Return won in 2003 vijf Gouden Leeuwen. Voor regisseur Andrei Zvjagintsev, die later Levithian zou maken, was de taak met een waardige opvolger te komen. Dat werd: The Banishment.