When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead. I don’t want to live thinking about how I’ll be remembered.
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955), dir. Charles Laughton
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For Meanjin, I wrote about STRANGER THINGS 2. And also about urban legends, the mythology of internet memes, how sentimentality and trauma often co-exist and loving something so much that you basically destroy it.
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The Momofuku Group, run by the thirty-nine-year-old chef David Chang, has in recent years expanded into fast food, overseas restaurants, and a quarterly magazine named Lucky Peach. But Momofuku Nishi was the company’s first full-scale, sit-down restaurant to open in New York in five years. A visit from Wells was a certainty. A copy of the one photograph of him that is widely available online, in which he looks like a character actor available to play sardonic police sergeants, was fixed to a wall in the restaurant’s back stairwell.
“Pete Wells Has His Knives Out” by Ian Parker, The New Yorker
This is one of the best profiles I’ve read in a long time. It’s so, so good and has so much to say about cultural criticism, about starred reviews in general, about gentrification and food.
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He converted to Islam in 1999, after attending a mosque with his future wife. His faith, he says, has helped him become a better actor: “It benefits me from the standpoint of really creating empathy for these characters that I try to embody, other human beings with issues as deep and personal as my own. Because of Islam, I am acutely aware that I am a work in progress.” The daily practice of the religion, he says, “puts a healthy pressure on you to be your best self, beginning with your own spirit and how that feeds into your actions.”
You don’t feel important until you find your people. You don’t feel like your first-person is connective until you have people that you develop a shorthand with. Like what Grace [Dunham] said yesterday: talking with friends is a form of writing.