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Raylan's Hat: Elmore Leonard and 'Justified'
“You know, you don’t always have to wear the hat,” Elmore Leonard once said to Timothy Olyphant, per an interview that the Justified star did with The…
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PODCAST: A Fear of Heights, and of Writing About My Fears
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A Fear of Heights, and of Writing About my Fears
Possibly not for the reason you think
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Bloody Mary Lived in a House that Lived in My Dreams
Confessions of a Fearphile
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Hurricane Elena, A Lady Called Camille, and Grafting “Super” to the Natural
I had my first and only real experience with a hurricane when I was barely six years old.
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Confessions of a Fearphile: Ringu / The Ring
I'd heard of Ringu shortly after it came out in Japan, well before it was made properly available in the United States, before the American remake had…
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Confessions of a Fearphile: The Alien
I never knew the creature as the "xenomorph", despite having seen Aliens--the movie where the term xenomorph was first used--before seeing Alien. My…
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Behind Your Face, There is a Place
Behind Your Face, There is a Place
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