“But here we are again, where the movies always leave us: trying to have it both ways and flopping around in the middle of both reality and escape. Another iconic moment in American film history that would seem to apply to where we are now is Bette Davis’s warning from All About Eve: “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”
Excerpt The Tunnel at the End of the Light: Essays on Movies and Politics
Jim Shepard is an American novelist and short story writer, who teaches creative writing and film at Williams College in Massachusetts. Read more about Jim:
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Books by Jim Shepard
1983 Flights
1986 Paper Doll
1990 Lights Out in the Reptile House
1994 Kiss of the Wolf
1994 You’ve Got to Read This
1996 Batting again… Castro
1998 Nosferatu
2004 Project X
2004 Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories
2007 Like You’d Understand, Anyway
2009 Electric Literature
2010 Gojira: King of the Monsters
2011 You Think That’s Bad
2011 Master of Minatures
2015 Book of Aron
2015 Ajax Is All About Attack
2016 Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature
2017 The World to Come: Stories
2017 The Tunnel at the End of the Light: Essays on Movies and Politics
2019 Then Again (Remix): Vintage Photography Reimagined by One Artist and Ten Writers
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