Attendance Optional
Zach CampbellAttention should be a gift. Ideas, problems, books, movies, etc., that interest me.
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076 Just Looking
In an interview published posthumously in Rouge back in 2006, Raymond Durgnat suggested the word “culturologist” to describe what he did, and I’ve always liked that term. I like it partly for the way that it implies something a little amate...
075 The Half-Huckster
Previously I wrote that the “attention-scarce, information-rich environment rewards the production of extremes.” I still think this is true, but there are important things to attend to in the ambiguities and the middle grounds, too. For ins...
074 Learning from Advice
You may have seen already a recent kerfuffle concerning the writer Helen DeWitt, who narrated her personal experience with the Windham-Campbell Prize after this year’s winners were announced. DeWitt was slated to be among the recipients, bu...
073 Separation Anxiety, or, Fun with Ekphrasis
My hunch is that speaking of films in the literary present became more common in the age of movies-on-television, and home video formats, as well as the greater spread institutions of cinema appreciation (film studies programs, museums, soc...
072 Into the Year
Often I will write a little something as a review of the year we’ve left behind. I didn’t for 2025, and this little missive won’t really address much of that, either. Instead, I’ll offer a glimpse of what’s been occupying some of my mind in...
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