Two Recent Pieces

Posted: October 13th, 2015 | Author: Matt | Filed under: DFW, personal | Tags: bedfordavenue, braverman, brooklyn, clips, DFW, easternparkway, medium, paleking, personal, toniware, wesanderson, writing | No Comments »

I recently posted this article about Wes Anderson and Bye Bye Braverman over on simpleranger.net

 

One thing I didn’t mention there is that Braverman includes a scene filmed at the corner of Eastern Parkway and Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn. For a while, I lived a block north of there on Bedford. That intersection has changed a lot over the years so it was very cool to see it back in 1968.

You can see the old Town Hill Restaurant in the background.

That Texaco station is long gone.

 

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I also wrote about David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King and the character of Toni Ware over on Medium. The Pale King’s Trailer Park Queen.

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