Junk Journal Week 27

Catching up from last week.

Reading:

David Markson’s Vanishing Point is an experimental novel that will appeal to people who spend a lot of time thinking about books, art, and intellectual history. It spoke deeply to me.

Michelle Huneven’s Bug Hollow is a literary fiction family saga with some affairs, at least one unexpected pregnancy spread over more than two decades. Three. At least in my opinion, it is a collection of linked short stories that works best if you read only one story per day and get a night’s sleep before moving to the next one.

Screens:

The Leopard is Luchino Visconti’s epic of a royal family in Sicily in 1860 when the monarchy is coming to an end. Thanks to my friend Ted @tedmurphy7 for the strong recommendation.

Past Lives is a Korean/Korean American drama about a friendship between a girl and a boy that starts when they were 12 and checks in on them a couple of times many years apart. Emotionally powerful.

Under the Skin has been compared to the 1976 Nicholas Roeg/David Bowie picture The Man Who Fell to Earth. I would add Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

Almost Famous is a rewatch. This time with my family.

The last three pictures I watched because the NYTimes called them among the 100 best pictures of the 21st century.

What have you been reading or watching in the last week or two? Anything to recommend?