Weekend Links, January 21
Hello from the snowy Sundance Film Festival, being held (and attended) in person for the first time in three years. I am happy to be here, even if it’s been marred by news of brutal layoffs at my workplace. For now, I am watching movies.
Five links for your weekend
Read: Merve Emre in the New Yorker on the future of literary criticism.
Watch: Aftersun — one of the year’s most genuinely astounding and wonderful films — is rentable for a few bucks on digital platforms, including Amazon.
Watch: Sundance is also online! So if you are in the US, you can watch most of the movies during the festival for the price of a very reasonable ticket. I would very much recommend The Starling Girl and A Still Small Voice, both available January 24-29.
Read: Adam Sternbergh’s little Substack post on reading recklessly.
Read / listen?: I started listening to Dan Kois’s new novel Vintage Contemporaries on the way out to Park City, and it’s quite splendid, especially if you have fond memories of New York City in the 90s or 00s.
What I’ve been up to
Nothing of mine has been published this week.
But! I was on the Film Comment podcast, recorded very late on the first night of Sundance, talking about a few movies. You can listen here.
Enjoyed this? If you’re feeling it, I won’t object if you buy me a cup of coffee. Writers need fuel.