Sunday Morning! Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
Naturally, Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison is an unfinished work. All things living are unfinished. But what’s there is so tremendous.
Category: Sunday
Sunday Morning! Revisiting François-René de Chateaubriand
François-René de Chateaubriand tried to find his way in the moments after the old world had ceased to be, and the new one had not yet come into being
Sunday Morning! Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash
Julie Dash’s luminous Daughters of the Dust plays like a series of rituals guiding its Gullah characters from the old life to the new..
Sunday Morning! Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
Wild Seed is often called a science-fiction novel, with the sciences being biology and genetics, and really eugenics, rather than space
Sunday Morning! The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
Richard Wright’s “lost” 1942 novel of guilt, exile, and spiritual initiation has been fortuitously pulled up from the memory hole. It’s no less urgent today.
Sunday Morning! “La Strada” by Federico Fellini
Fellini’s heartbreaking archetypal story of how, in life, Experience comes to kick the snot out of Innocence.
Sunday Morning! Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock
In Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece the sense of vertigo is inspired by the infinite space between Self and Other.
Sunday Morning! Persona by Ingmar Bergman
Persona by Ingmar Bergman places two women in a cottage to find out what happens when we stop playing our roles and start becoming each other.
Sunday Spins Part 2: Sturgill Simpson’s Cuttin’ Grass Vol 2
Sturgill Simpson’s Cuttin’ Grass Vol 2 is not a double-LP like Vol 1, and it has been pared down in scope, but it still slaps.
Sunday Morning! “A Little Devil in America” by Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib’s song of praise never elides Black pain or the reality of racism; but centers and is held aloft by Black miracles.
Sunday Morning! “Time Regained” by Marcel Proust
We’ve reached the final volume of “In Search of Lost Time” and, finally, our hero has realized the work of his life comes in those moments in which joy, unexpectedly, breaks through the crust of ordinary experience. Now, he can get to work.
Sunday Morning! “The Fugitive” by Marcel Proust
There are many readers for whom “The Fugitive” is their favorite volume because it’s a psychologically rich depiction of heartbreak and its recovery, something to which we can all relate
Sunday Morning! “How Proust Can Change Your Life” BBC2
I’m feeling a bit under the weather this week, so I think I will let Ralph Fiennes and the BBC fill in for me with “How Proust Can Change Your Life”
Sunday Morning! “The Prisoner” by Marcel Proust
The Prisoner by Marcel Proust’s depiction of doomed and obsessive sexual jealousy is not nearly as bleak as I remembered. It’s tragic, but it’s a light tragedy.
Sunday Morning! “Sodom and Gomorrah” by Marcel Proust (pt. 2)
Proust is showing us the world that was in terminal decline by the first world war and asking the important question: What did we lose?
Sunday Morning! Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust (pt.1)
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust: In which the love that dare not speak its name finally speaks- at great length.
Sunday Morning! “The Guermantes Way” by Marcel Proust (pt. 2)
We’re halfway through Marcel Proust’s epic The Guermantes Way and Death makes an appearance or two to complicate matters.
Sunday Morning! The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust: On worshipping and serving others in the social world of Volume 3 of “In Search of Lost Time”
Sunday Spins: Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow
Filled with psychedelic journeys and straight rockers, Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow really is a generational masterpiece.
Sunday Morning! Finishing ‘In Search of Lost Time’ Vol. 2. by: Marcel Proust
As we finish Marcel Proust’s “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower” our hero heads to the beach and meets an artist, a marquis, and a band of young girls who will alter the course of his life and imagination, whether or not he ever really knows them.
