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Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura
Written on the Wind
Gillian Nelson in Miscellaneous
September 15, 2026
All the soap you could want in a story that's about either tobacco or oil.
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Go Ask Alice
Gillian Nelson in Miscellaneous
August 18, 2026
A book and movie that don't exactly . . . feed your head. Ah? Ah?
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The Egg and I
Gillian Nelson in Miscellaneous
July 21, 2026
An obscure part of Washington State's pop culture that is frankly painful in places.
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Orlando[: A Biography]
Gillian Nelson in Miscellaneous
June 23, 2026
Tilda Swinton glows as Virginia Woolf's fictionalization of Vita Sackville-West.
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Room For One More
Gillian Nelson in Miscellaneous
May 19, 2026
One woman does what she can to help foster kids until she kind of becomes Cary Grant.
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
Gillian Nelson in Miscellaneous
April 21, 2026
Far more obscure Damon Runyon, though one also stars a major recording artist.
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“Dark Dungeons”
Gillian Nelson in Miscellaneous
February 17, 2026
No! No! Not Black Leaf!
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A Garden of Fitzwilly
Gillian Nelson in Miscellaneous
January 20, 2026
Another month, another out-of-print book.
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“A Wish For Wings That Work”
Gillian Nelson in Miscellaneous
December 16, 2025
Opus the Penguin in his one and only TV outing, based on the charming Christmas story by Berkeley Breathed.
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All of Me Two
Gillian Nelson in Miscellaneous
November 18, 2025
No matter whose body you're in, there you are.