This coming Wednesday night, once again – as I do every year – I will be contemplating the irony and wistfulness in the penultimate sentence in “The Great Gatsby:” “Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . .And one fine morning – ” Fitzgerald was on to something when he combined […]
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It was over thirty years ago that the Hollywood Blockbuster Season gave us “Odorama.” Yup, 1981’s version of 3-D was a scratch and sniff card with numbered aromas. When a number flashed on the screen, we in the audience would scratch. It was a John Waters gimmick for his film, “Polyester,” which has been used […]
Below is a link to a Q and A I did with Random House in honor of National Library Week. There are a half-dozen questions. Here is one. RH LIBRARY: If you were a character in a book who would you be? CHRIS BOHJALIAN: Well, I would want that person to be alive and happy […]
