Archive - Brief Candle's Bulletin

on climbing half dome, pt. 2

(a year on, and an end to my first essay)

Nov 18 •

November 2023

on climbing half dome, pt. 1

(the first of my writers' institute essays)

Nov 15, 2023 •

June 2023

on shakespeare and invention

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Jun 11, 2023 •

February 2023

on lost in translation, by sofia coppola

When I see the walls of The Metrograph theater for the first time, I think they are like the spindled bindings of a hardcover book. The space feels…

Feb 19, 2023 •

January 2023

Good evening! I hope you all had excellent winter holidays. After a brief break of my own, here is a piece fully intended to proselytize, or at the very…

Jan 21, 2023 •

September 2022

In times of personal distress, I think of great women.

Sep 23, 2022 •

August 2022

on the monologue (but mostly about hamlet)

An observation on stagecraft, for the aspiring actor: the monologue is an actor talking to himself, not the audience.

Aug 13, 2022 •

July 2022

on three times, by hou hsiao-hsien

In Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s 2005 Taiwanese film Three Times, two people fall in love – once in 1966, another time in 1911, and then in 2005.

Jul 27, 2022 •

June 2022

on things not said

I am finding nowadays that secret, incomplete drafts are oftentimes more seductive than a completed work.

Jun 10, 2022 •

May 2022

on charles ray and his archangel

The penchants of the art world can be frustratingly fickle.

May 7, 2022 •

February 2022

after my first medical school class

Feb 16, 2022 •

on men and heavenly bodies

Feb 11, 2022 •

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