Personal Effects
Mike IngramExperiments in creative nonfiction
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Wonder Boys (2000, dir. Curtis Hanson)
In a lot of movies about teaching and writing, the actual teaching and writing are kind of incidental. Maybe we see the grumpy professor being grumpy with their students. Or we get a montage of writer’s block—crumpled-up sheets of paper, th...
Kicking and Screaming (1995, dir. Noah Baumbach)
I thought I’d start this new series—about fictional creative writing workshops in film and television—with an old favorite I hadn’t revisited in years. Noah Baumbach’s low-budget directorial debut, Kicking and Screaming, takes place on and...
Endings and Beginnings
Dear friend (or well-meaning stranger):
I generally use Substack to send out original essays, rather than chatty updates, but today you’re getting a chatty update. I hope this doesn’t interfere too much with your general sense of How Thing...
Vacation Photos, San Francisco (2005, Kodak paper)
This was the last roll of film I ever had professionally developed. My first year of grad school, a spring-break trip to San Francisco to see my friend Kyle. I had a digital camera by then, so “roll of film” isn’t technically correct. An SD...
Despicable Me Christmas Sweater (acq. 2016)
For a roughly six-to-eight month period in 2016, if we were friends and ran into each other somewhere—a party, a poetry reading, the elevator at work—I probably insisted on showing you a few minion memes I’d saved on my phone. I’m sorry, fi...
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