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Sporadic #filmmaker. ROY'S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD'S CHICAGO is now streaming! (An impressionistic #documentary about growing up in 1950's Chicago, featuring Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon & Lili Taylor.) Some stuff I scribe: #Chicago things, #cocktails, #music, #books. And yup, I'm #gay. “Living and ceasing to live are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.” –ANDRE BRETON
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randomcha rated Man in the Grey Flannel Suit: 4 stars
randomcha rated The fifth child: 5 stars
randomcha rated Chéri and the End of Chéri: 4 stars
randomcha rated Technofeudalism: 4 stars
Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
In his boldest and most far-reaching book yet, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism is dead and a new …
randomcha rated The White Album: 4 stars
Memorial by Bryan Washington
Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a …
randomcha rated The Ongoing Moment: 3 stars
The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer
In his most recent book, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, Geoff Dyer confessed that not …
randomcha rated Shadows of Carcosa: 3 stars
Shadows of Carcosa by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Raymond Wilson Chambers, Amrbose Bierce, and 2 others
randomcha rated Kingdom of Sand: 4 stars
If Then by Jill Lepore
The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge—decades before …
randomcha rated The Last Twelve Miles: 3 stars
The Last Twelve Miles by Erika Robuck
1926, Washington, D. C.
In the Prohibition Rum Wars, the Coast Guard is losing. Eleven million gallons of illegal liquor …
randomcha rated The Magician: 2 stars
The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham (The works of W. Somerset Maugham)
Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century masterSet in the bohemian cafe society of …