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3 months, 3 weeks ago

he had to rise to the occasion

Carter and the crew used to go through two cases of beer by the afternoon. Sometimes they went harder, if shooting was particularly punishing—the prop guy wielding his Wild Turkey like he was offering up a sacrament, a big Good morning! swig in Carter’s coffee. These days it didn’t get much crazier…

—p.217 The Paris Review, Issue 240, Summer 2022 Pleasant Glen (209) by Emma Cline
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3 months, 3 weeks ago

tell Ray no more wives project/stunt-story

Okay to switch the final two scenes? Because Ray had a hard out at three. Settlement meeting with divorce attorneys.

Lynn had sprained her wrist skateboarding—could costume come up with some way to hide the wrist guard?

The twins’ mother was complaining that the wigs were digging into their …

—p.215 Pleasant Glen (209) by Emma Cline
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3 months, 3 weeks ago

he sometimes caught her looking at him a beat too long

A kiss goodbye for his sleeping wife, still in picturesque repose on the pillow. Judging by the condition of the pages on her nightstand, Jennifer must have stayed up late finishing the latest draft of his movie script. She’d always believed that Carter could make movies. She believed in a lot of t…

—p.210 Pleasant Glen (209) by Emma Cline
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3 months, 3 weeks ago

a good description of marriage

BERLIN

We stay in the apartment of a Croatian couple, husband and wife, both in love with our friend M.,
a professional flautist, long-fingered and heron-legged. They’ve gone to Zagreb to witness a mother’s death.
For the duration, my husband and I walk their mutt, Streetboy, in Tempelhof F…

—p.206 Two Poems (206) missing author
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3 months, 3 weeks ago

to try to write at least a little each day

INTERVIEWER

What do you need in order to write?

NUNEZ

Just the time and the quiet. I write on my laptop at my desk, or really anywhere in the apartment but the bed. I get up at six or seven, and I work until I’m tired—on a good day that’s for four or five hours, and they go by surprisingl…

—p.183 The Art of Fiction No. 254 (154) missing author