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Fifteen of my favorite Open Culture posts, featuring Murakami, Coupland, Ozu, Byrne, Marker, and Los Angeles

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Every weekday, I write a post at Open Culture, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, television, radio, or language. I’ve done about 800 so far, but on this list (which I’ll revise every so often) you’ll find twelve of my favorites: Close Personal Friend: Watch a 1996 Portrait of Gen-X Definer Douglas Coupland David Byrne: […]

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Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E33: Avoiding Disposability with Jacques Testard

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Colin Marshall sits down in Knightsbridge, London with Jacques Testard, founding editor of the quarterly arts journal The White Review. They discuss the re-issue of Nairn’s Towns featuring past guest Owen Hatherley; London’s surprisingly small literary culture and what, before founding The White Review, he didn’t see getting published; the “deeply stereotypical Williamsburg existence” he once lived in […]

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To go with my new writing space, my new career

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

From Donald Richie’s Japan Journals: Called a flâneur in print. Looked it up. “Witty, insouciant, man of the world.” Like that very much. Also, “not serious.” Like that even better. It is like being a dandy without having to pay tailoring bills. An element of pose and nothing, such as earnestness, to mar the effect. Also, […]

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Hello, world!

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

You can find all my old posts (but why would you want to?) going back to 2008-ish on colinmarshall.typepad.com, and going back to 2002 on colinmarshall.livejournal.com.

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