aesthetic point

In which NC Weil reviews books and films, and considers this amazing world.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Apocalypse Now - All the Versions

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A brief intro: this film uses a story much like Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to examine what happens to people when they move beyond t...
Saturday, February 7, 2026

Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy

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This 2025 novel is vividly told through the voices of its characters. The Salt family, Dominic (a widower) and his 3 children, son Raff (eig...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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I took my time reading the essays in this 2013 book by enrolled member of Citizen Potawatomi Nation, PhD botanist, Distinguished Teaching Pr...
Monday, December 15, 2025

LaRose, a novel by Louise Erdrich

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This 2016 novel is a masterful landscape of the human heart, shattered by grief, rage, and jealousy, healed by generations of LaRoses. In br...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

David Ansen at 48th Denver Film Fest

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Coffee and Conversation with David Ansen at the 48th Denver Film Fest  ( Full disclosure – David Ansen is mi esposo’s cousin ) Longtime film...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

"Listers" - a documentary by Owen and Quentin Reiser

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Owen and Quentin Reiser, 20-something brothers, don't know much about birds - they can identify a few distinctive species, and beyond th...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Match in a Haystack, a documentary by Joe Hill

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This 2025 documentary serves as a companion-piece to Porcelain War , the 2024 documentary by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev about art in...
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NC Weil prefers the elbow room of novels to the restricted arc of short stories. Her novels Karmafornia and its sequel Superball are available for purchase (through FoolCourtPress.Net or Amazon.com) and she blogs at http://aestheticpoint.blogspot.com/. Her short stories have appeared in the anthology Electric Grace (Paycock Press, 2007) and the online journal ArLiJo. Weil is National Treasurer and a member of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Women's National Book Association (https://www.wnba-midatlantic.org/), a network of women and men devoted to books and literacy celebrating its Centennial in 2017.
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