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The Cruelest Month: On Being a Failed Poet
For one afternoon long ago, Jonathan Gourlay was a poetic genius.
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What I Learned on the Island of Pohnpei
To celebrate the launch of our new ebook Nowhere Slow Jonathan Gourlay shares some lessons learned from eleven years on the island of Pohnpei.
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A Very Special Episode of Lincoln
The jarring experience of recognizing so many television actors in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln.
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The Awards That Ate Themselves
Just in time for the Oscars, Jonathan hands out his own Ouroboros Awards.
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Read an Excerpt from Nowhere Slow
A sample from our new ebook, Nowhere Slow: Eleven Years on a Micronesian Island, Jonathan Gourlay’s memoir of cultural confusion, hilarity and tragedy, and a decade of soul-searching.
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Michael Haneke’s Amour is a nice movie to have seen, but a very annoying one to watch. The movie is gratingly slow. With its stationary camera and long takes of an old married couple (Jean-Louis Trintignat and Emmanuele Riva), one of whom suffers a stroke and begins a slow demise, the movie de ...
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Leaving the Search Bar
Jonathan Gourlay searches, online and in memory, for an old friend.
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Man-Child With Child
Jonathan Gourlay previews the new NBC sitcom Guys with Kids and comes away with spittle on his bib.
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The Sheep of Liechtenstein
Jonathan Gourlay confronts the romantic appeal of typewriters and the resonance of obsolescence.
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A Critical Review of Smartphone Ads
Jonathan Gourlay analyzes the latest smartphone commercials and finds perversion, misogyny, anger, and circles.
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The Ghost in the Timeline
For Jonathan Gourlay, Facebook Timeline has turned his news feed into an online cemetery.
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In the Land of the Non-Reader
Jonathan Gourlay stops reading books. This is what happens to him.