John Lopez chats with Whit Stillman at Grantland. New fiction from Karolina Waclawiak: up now at Two Serious Ladies. The Daily News on the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair. David Byrne has a new sound installation up in London. Spencer Ackerman is a fan of Sleigh Bells. If you’d like to see a Vol.1 editor with a pen in his beard, The Outlet has you covered. Ariana Reines will be performing at the Swiss Institute on Saturday. Sharknife, one […]
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Whit Stillman In Bronxville
I love Wes Anderson as much as the next person whose college years took place during or right around 9/11, but that didn’t stop me from getting drunk one night and spouting off a bunch of crap about how Whit Stillman is Wes Anderson — for adults! Whether this is true or not I will leave up to you, but Stillman’s trilogy of films dedicated to the “Urban Haute Bourgeoisie” rank among my favorites, and I am willing to bet that Damsels in Distress, […]