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[HEAR ME OUT] Season 2 of Interview With The Vampire Gets Everything Perfectly Wrong

The poster for season 2 of Interview With The Vampire shows Louis, Claudia and Armand facing away from each other, while a large shadowy Lestat looms in the background.

Sometime in 2022, I told you all about how much I liked the first three episodes of the series reboot of the Anne Rice classic Interview With The Vampire. I told you how good the acting, the writing, and the thematic choices in the new show seemed to be, fangirled a bit over lead actorsContinue reading “[HEAR ME OUT] Season 2 of Interview With The Vampire Gets Everything Perfectly Wrong”

[REVIEW] Anne-Marie The Beauty, by Yasmina Reza, translated by Alison L Strayer

A very plain photo of a book laying on a piece of cardboard. The book has the words Anne-Marie The Beauty printed on it in green and purple brushstrokes.

(Buy this at Bookshop.) (I am aware that something awful happened this week, as it does every day of every week in America, and that everyone is talking about it. I do not have the emotional bandwidth to discuss it outside of a few safe small places offline, and so I am choosing to loseContinue reading “[REVIEW] Anne-Marie The Beauty, by Yasmina Reza, translated by Alison L Strayer”

[REVIEW] The Chiffon Trenches, by Andre Leon Talley

(Buy this book here.) I was a very casual fan of the iconic fashion editor Andre Leon Talley. I remember seeing him on television shows in the 90s and early 2000s and being struck by his grandiosity. I also noticed him because even then I had a laser eye for #ownnormal fam living their biggest and bestContinue reading “[REVIEW] The Chiffon Trenches, by Andre Leon Talley”