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In the Cone Zone
When I was 14, I made a big change. I moved out of the small bedroom I had called home my entire life, taking my belongings down the hall to the bedroom…
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Daniel Fleschner
Movie Desert
These are tough times to be a moviegoer in New Haven, especially if you like smaller movies as I do. The city’s longtime arthouse theater, York Square…
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Mike Birbiglia and Me
The Best… …Comedy Special I Watched This Week The Old Man & The Pool — Mike Birbiglia Streaming on Netflix In June 2020, comedian Mike Birbiglia…
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From the Mixed-Up Files of...
Lately my mother’s been cleaning out her file cabinets, mostly looking for old paperwork to throw out. But occasionally she comes across something she…
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Learning Curve
I was recently asked to do a voiceover read for a short story published by The Razor, a literary magazine run by the Gotham Writers Workshop. (The story…
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Fever Dream
The Best… …Podcast Series I Listened To This Week UConn’s Dream Season: An Oral History — Produced & hosted by Matthew Edwards My high school friend and…
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Candles in the Wind
The Best… …Movie I Watched This Week The Misfits (1961) — Directed by John Huston Streaming on Amazon Prime Video with subscription; available for rent…
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The Best Newsletter
Hello, friends. Welcome to The Best Newsletter, my weekly attempt to make sense of the overwhelming barrage of shows, movies, books, articles, and everything else the media-cultural world throws at us these days.
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