GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Hausfrau as Print Magazine (6/7)
Why do print when it’s so expensive? There are a number of reasons. First, I’m a bit of a Luddite and a sentimentalist. Second, as a reading experience, turning…
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GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Hausfrau Shooting Challenges (5/7)
Having no budget to speak of makes shooting a bit harder, because I can’t really ask people who are volunteering to show up at 7 a.m. when the light is good. I do try…
GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Hausfrau Casting (4/7)
What criteria do you use when casting? First, I have to enjoy being around the people I’m working with. It’s easier using people I know, but it’s also important…
GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Directing Hausfrau Photoshoots (3/7)
Being in the magazine myself is weird. I don’t really like it, but I have to make sure there is continuity if one or two of my pals who play main characters move or…
GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Hausfrau Scripts and Costumes (2/7)
The photos come first. It’s much easier and more effective to shape the dialog in response to the photos on the page than vice versa. That way my “actors” don’t have to act.
GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Hausfrau’s Creation (1/7)
This week, we’re featuring the brilliantly wacky Stephen Kosloff, founder of Hausfrau Magazine, purported as the first U.S. magazine that doubles as…
GORDIAN KNOTS: Dani Tru’s Off Balance (True Romantic #6)
I used to have an old red suitcase where I kept my journals, about fifty or so notebooks, each filled with stories and poems, travel notes, bits of this and that I’d glued onto…
GORDIAN KNOTS: Dani Tru’s The Hope Chest (True Romantic #5)
My mother owned a long narrow cedar trunk that looked to me, when I was a little girl, like a coffin. It was at the end of her bed and my mother would pile quilts on the…
GORDIAN KNOTS: Dani Tru’s Moving Out (True Romantic #4)
Looking through the lens of the present, after all that has happened between us—all the good things and the bad—it is hard to see The Magician clearly, without prejudice.
GORDIAN KNOTS: Dani Tru’s Meet The Magician (True Romantic #3)
Lately, I’ve been thinking about origin myths. Creation ex nihilo, creation from the void, mythical creation, creation by God, and creation by the Big Bang—I’m into all…
GORDIAN KNOTS: Dani Tru’s The Incredible Vanishing Woman (True Romantic #2)
Why love, why me, and why now? Not so very long ago, I would never have written about love, and especially my own love life. In…
GORDIAN KNOTS: Dani Tru’s Love is My Cliff (True Romantic #1)
Some knots help–keeping your shoes on, tethering the dingy to […]
GRADUATION: Carol Zaydel on Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Graduations are always big personal milestones whether our role is […]
BRAVING STORMS: John Foy on “Point of View”
In late August 2011, the very outer edges of Hurricane Irene were felt in Cape Cod as the storm, by then an extratropical cyclone, moved inland toward Vermont and…
BRAVING STORMS: John Foy on “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London”
“A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London” – Here, again, a storm of grief, this time over a young girl who…
BRAVING STORMS: John Foy, “On My First Son”
Here’s a storm that’s internal and emotional. Ben Jonson wrote “On My First Son” in 1603 after the death of his seven-year-old boy, Benjamin. The…