Aatif Rashid

Just read The Painted Veil--I've always liked Maugham, and I remember watching the movie when I was younger. It's one of those 20th century narratives about Europeans finding spiritual sustenance in Asia, but the writing is beautiful and the emotions very direct and moving.

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Currently reading:

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My friend Jon Eddy just published his debut novel--a beautiful, haunting, atmospheric work of speculative fiction about a journalist who begins to question the foundations of her society.

01.04.2025 23:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In case you missed it, I wrote about @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social's Twilight of the Gods for BULL, "a conscious rebuke of the Marvel superhero vision of the Norse Gods" that makes Loki into a "postmodern hero whose trickster punk identity becomes an antidote to authoritarianism."

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The Search for Love and Meaning: On Éric Rohmer’s Comedies and Proverbs Last year, I concluded a four-part analysis of Éric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons, a quartet of films Rohmer made in the 1990s and…

I wrote a piece on Eric Rohmer's six Comedies and Proverbs films and how they correspond with Jane Austen's novels--each film, intentionally or not, seems to have a clear Austen novel that it reflects. I analyzed each one and noted the key connections.

aatifrashid.medium.com/the-search-f...

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AWP event tonight! Come hear me and others read, Echo Park Time Travel Mart 7pm!

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Nothing makes you feel old like starting a new social media profile in your 30s. How did I ever have the energy to do this?

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