Author: Nick Denardi
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Review: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Should you be angry, or afraid? The varied and disparate covers of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley seem to playfully mirror the types of story Tom Ripley would choose to believe about himself. A man lost in a void, a man pining for an identity capable of love, a man overlooking Mongibello, Italy. In the most…
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Writer’s Diary 003: I’m not sure if structure is real
Is “structure” in the room with us right now? If filmtok and filmstagram reels have their say, anyone even remotely interested in movies will soon memorize every line of improvised dialogue in Hollywood history, every instance of when “the director just kept on rolling,” and, presumably, the rules of filmmaking. Saying that a movie has…
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Writer’s Diary 002
First Agent Rejection I’m pretty sure it was a form a rejection, but it was still a reply, and that (surprisingly) felt quite good. I can only expect dozens (or worst case, hundreds) more, as I have been prepared by the internet. But even being in the process finally, feels exciting. We’ll see if my…
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Writer’s Diary 001
Introduction – The Journey to Endless (Devastating) Rejection Begins Now I have made it no secret: I want to be published. I will do it myself if necessary, but that conclusion doesn’t really excite me; I need the validation of a gatekeeper. I hate to say it, but I do. This diary will function as…
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The Chair Company, Twin Peaks, and The Crying of Lot 49
There is a certain focal point that separates what I would call auteur post-structuralists (like Lynch, Pynchon, and (absurdly) Robinson) from run of the mill postmodernists. And that focal point is alienation. For the post-structuralists, alienation is a way of life. Or rather, it is the way of life (of the human subject). Pesky orders…
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