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“I was viewed as smart, as a nerd, not as a good guy or a bad guy,” said Sam. “Not really viewed as a person. Smart and inoffensive and maybe not all that human.” Worse, he didn’t totally disagree with his classmates’ assessment. “I didn’t feel misunderstood. I felt like their half-assed guesses were in the right ballpark.”
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
“He does such a great job at playing the truly mediocre,” adds Jordan Peele, who cast Heidecker as Josh Tyler (and his tethered, Tex) in his 2019 movie Us . Peele created the role specifically for the comedian. “Not to shatter the magic of his unspoken notions, but this stand-up character that he portrays is so close to being possibly who he is tha... See more
Tim’s Time
“I have to tell you, I was the only person there whose name I didn’t know,” Heilpern says.
Michael Schulman • The Legacy of Interview Magazine and a Trip to 1988
“You’re an artist,” her boyfriend Pablo
Emily St. John Mandel • Station Eleven
When I showed up with my camera at his house a few weeks later, I felt as if I had been training for that moment my entire working life. For more than forty years, in locations as disparate as the American South, Inuit villages in Alaska, Havana streets, and Hispanic towns in northern New Mexico, I learned to make portraits without the actual prese... See more
Margaret Sartor • Seeing Reynolds Price Through His Art Collection
sustained and immersive
Pamela Paul • My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
In fact, he was a romantic in the strict sense of the term, one who believed that music should be composed and played through the “addition of strangeness to beauty.”