It wasn’t always this way. Read more…
Archive for Gillie Collins
(‘15) is from New York, NY. She likes reading, walking, and snacking on pumpkin bread. At Stanford, she spends the majority of her time losing her belongings and retracing her steps.
The End of Life and Land: On Mike Leigh’s New Film Mr. Turner
There is discomfort in watching Turner (Timothy Spall) move through the world. In every room he enters—from his own kitchen to the halls of the Royal Academy of Arts—he snorts and harrumphs and sniffles. His chin and neck are indistinguishable, and his teeth, by the end, go green. Read more…
(Dis)enchantment and the Perks of Realism: A Fairy Tale Summer
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On the cusp of adulthood, we outgrow certain villains, like pirate captains with hooked arms, and grow into others, like failure and aging, rejection and silence, loneliness and death. Read more…
Getting Muddy: Scribbles 004-006 from the Anderson Collection
What we see is mostly what we expect to see. It’s difficult (read: scary) to beat the odds and perceive anew. I’ve wondered, then, what it would be like to wake up open-eyed and open-minded. What would your backyard look like, really? Read more…
Creative Writing Lecturer Molly Antopol on ‘The UnAmericans’
“I hate Highway 17,” Jones Lecturer and former Stegner Fellow Molly Antopol told me on the phone this morning. For the sake of scenery, when our interview began, Antopol was driving up Route 1 instead.
Shaping Chaos: A Review of ‘Redeployment’ by Phil Kay
Good writing gives shape to chaos. Stories have the power to make paradox survivable, useful, beautiful. There is a particular urgency, then, to literature about war.
Our Everywhere, Everyday, Anywhere: First Impressions, Paris
In one rainy morning, I learn that the spine of every Parisian brick, street, and metro line runs into one cathedral or another. Il pleut and I arrive—at Notre Dame, Arc de Triomph, the Louvre. I see the must-sees, despite the weather. Read more…