aesthetic point

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

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Enough Said, a film by Nicole Holofcener

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Enough Said , a 2013 film starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini, offers an adults-eye view of misunderstandings, secrets, and ho...
Monday, June 9, 2025

In Honor of Virginia Boucher

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak

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This 2021 novel is a beautifully told story about horrendous events. Set variously in Cyprus in 1974, England late 2010s, and Cyprus early 2...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Islands, a documentary by Albert & David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin

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I read an article by Michael Shulman in the New Yorker (Jan 20, 2025) about Charlotte Zwerin – now living in her former Greenwich Village ...
Saturday, March 22, 2025

Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon - Part 1

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I’m in a book group these days with Heinz and Ernesto. The latter, a big fan of David Foster Wallace’s doorstop Infinite Jest , has been pr...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride

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James McBride , who arrived on the literary scene with his unforgettable memoir The Color of Water, has since leaned on his heritage (Black...
Monday, January 20, 2025

Dylan Considered: James Mangold's "A Complete Unknown"

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Neither the first nor the best movie about Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown  is nonetheless a respectable addition to the canon. So, how does i...
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NC Weil (ncweil.com) 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 Website Co-Chair, WNBA Award Chair, and Washington DC Chapter Newsletter editor of the Women's National Book Association (wnba-books.org/wash), a network of women and men devoted to books and literacy celebrating its Centennial in 2017.
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