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Chris Barsanti’s Biography

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I am a writer, editor, and consultant. Clients include National Geographic, Tribune Media, Priceline, and Workman Publishing.

I’ve written several books, and co-authored and contributed to a few others. I also created The Writer’s Year calendar.

A member of National Book Critics Circle and the Online Film Critics Society, I write on the semi-regular for Publishers Weekly, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Slant Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and PopMatters.

I also write about movies at Eyes Wide…

Chris Barsanti’s Journalist Portfolio

10 Things I Learned About Literature from Monty Python

10 Things I Learned About Literature from Monty Python

From Marcel Proust and Thomas Hardy to John Stuart Mill, the British comedy troupe provided a crash course in…

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Charles Burns Still Has Something to Say

Charles Burns Still Has Something to Say

After struggling with writer's block for years, the comics artist returns with a new graphic novel.

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City of Constant Violence: PW Talks with David Simon

City of Constant Violence: PW Talks with David Simon

The groundbreaking account of a year in the life of Baltimore detectives by the creator of 'The Wire' gets ad…

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‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’ Is Fundamentally Silly

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Monty Python's Life of Brian Criterion Collection Of the many things Western culture has lost of late—the dominance of print media, quality middlebrow cinema—one will not be lamented: big public debates over the possibly blasphemous nature of some book, film, or song. A subset of the publishing imbroglios about obscenity and censorship that popped up in the early and mid-20th century, these controversies were, like most arguments hashed out on TV, loud, polarizing, and unrewarding.
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Stephen King’s Nightmares are Personal and Real

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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King Hogarth If Stephen King had stopped publishing after 1983’s Pet Sematary, his reputation would be even greater than it stands today. That’s not because the quality of his work fell off dramatically, though the less said about 2001’s Dreamcatcher, the better. At a minimum, It (1986), The Green Mile (1996), Under the Dome (2009), and 11/22/63 (2011) are spectacularly vivid reads.
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‘Project Hail Mary’ Tests Our Limits

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Project Hail Mary Amazon/MGM Some may walk out of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s goofy and pop-operatic adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary trying to string together all the shards of hard science fiction-speak that just burst from the screen at them. They may be able to math all the astrophysics which the film’s scientist hero, Ryland (Ryan Gosling), has to wrangle to save Earth from microscopic alien organisms that are rapidly eating the Sun.
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