Finally got around to George Saunders' Lincoln In the Bardo. I believe Zadie Smith called it a "masterpiece", so I can say it's one of the best novels I've read in years. Saunders has picked exactly the right American president, American historical event, and personal biographical event for his polyphonic tale of…

Very good. America needs its media to call out and fight the evil corporate masters who don't give a shit about Americans.

No, I recognize they couldn't really have put their style on it. And it does have flashes of their (black) humor. The mother's repeated mentions of "the cancer" is funny.

Right. I wonder if the Portis novel True Grit was actually more like their work.

"You're not going to have my tricky dick to kick around anymore!"

It's a relief seeing him play a Coens-type character after the un-Coens-like No Country For Old Men. Which don't get me wrong, is a great movie, and continues the brothers being the chroniclers of Americans unjustifiably thinking highly of themselves, but the latter film didn't have much of their humor and heart.

Rushdie's next novel is reportedly about American politics and a Trumpian figure. I did read it last, but I would rank Satanic Verses as his best, followed by Moor's Last Sigh. Midnight's Children is somewhere; I have to reread it.

Tilda Swinton playing vain, feuding twins should happen more often.

"These men are screwballs!" Everyone's a critic: the chariot scene is too unbelievable; "Uh-huh, we can take a look at that."

No, I didn't read The Ghost, and I like Harris. I will read it and see how the endings are same/different. I also have to read his Cicero novels.

Don't forget Rebecca Traister and her sister, Maura Tierney.

I don't care, but you can joke the wearer wants to be a common man and at the same time keep his status as an elite.

Hey, Hail, Caesar! just started. I like how they wrote the story to concisely and creatively convey the main theme of movies replacing all the intellectual 19th "isms" (socialism, capitalism), religion, the future American military-industrial complex that undergirds the postwar liberal democratic order—as the most…

Hey, greetings from the future. I finally started watching this, wasn't going to comment, but share your sentiment, I think, with discussions here about Netflix shows. I get frustrated by adults, even young adults, who can't wait to discuss the whole series, making the assumption that everybody watches the show as…

Doesn't everybody? Or do I need to take fewer showers?

Dammit, they look alike! Stop trying to gaslight me!

As thoughtful a reply as always, Thomas.

How do you know about my Tuesday nights? But, no. They all look alike.

Amy Pascal, Kathryn Hahn, and Jennifer Weiner should play sisters in a movie.

That's what I'm talking about. Thanks.