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This review first appeared in the inaugural issue of Serpent Club Press, New Writing, Summer, 2023 edited by Matthew Gasda and Robert Gittings. You can purchase a copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Summer-2023-Matthew-Gasda/dp/0997613491/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3I1QCNEECL7SO&keywords=serpent+club+new+writing&qid=1702860358&s=books&sprefix=serpent+club+new+writing%2Cstripbooks%2C118&sr=1-1 French author Patrick Modiano celebrated his seventy-eighth birthday this past July. His literary output, beginning in his early twenties, has been prodigious: he has written more than thirty works of fiction, as well as co-written the screenplay for the film Lacombe, Lucien (with director Louis Malle), children’s books, and memoirs.

when your eyes first fall on the post, you read “Evolution can you give me…” left to right. Then, you read the four panels from top to bottom. These two kinds of reading, width and length, are clear enough. But a third kind of reading also happens, which goes from shallow to deep. You see the photograph in the fourth panel, which isn’t quite aligned, and the text in the first panel, which is in a different font.

Paul Goldschmidt raced out of the gate a year ago. Remember that grand slam against Toronto? His OPS for March/April was .914 and he stroked ten doubles, slugging over .500. It was the big guy unleashing terror on pitchers like he had done for the majority of the previous season. Remember 2022? Goldschmidt plugged his lumber into the intro season for Oliver Marmol, leveling his team up to a playoff spot.

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It's coming up to degree show season, a time when thousands of fine art students will be trying to justify the last four years of study. What mark will I get? Will a gallery pluck me from obscurity? Should I do commercial work? Can my parents feel proud? These are the questions that might preoccupy them as they plan their exhibition. Talking with photography students at a recent preview, I didn't get the sense that they'd been emboldened by their time at university.

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This is a free read but comments are for paying subscribers. By my reckoning, Chelsea at home will be the 50th time Paul Tierney has taken charge of a Liverpool game as either referee or VAR, and to say he’s been controversial is like saying Joey Barton isn’t keen on female commentators. The Premier League: “Referee: Paul Tierney, Assistants: James Mainwaring, Scott Ledger. Fourth official: Andy Madley. VAR: John Brooks.

After 35+ years of traveling here, 15 years of operating Pok Pok Restaurants, writing several books on the subject and dreaming it, I finally moved to Thailand about a year and a half ago. The circumstances of my move towards the beginning of the pandemic were not the best (nor were they the best circumstances for anyone, except maybe a few billionaires). But here we are and here I am, in a little wood house next to a rice field, trying to figure it all out.

Pax Massilia (or: Blood Coast) is a new French crime series about a group of police officers who try to track down a dangerous criminal who is busy plunging Marseille into a bloodbath. This six-part drama was created by Kamel Guemra, who was one of the writers of the Netflix-hit Balle Perdue (Lost Bullet). The main director is Olivier Marchal, in fact Pax Massilia is being advertised as ‘the new series by Marchal,’ since the veteran filmmaker (and former police officer!