Aaron Ducat

Review. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. By Jonathan Safran Foer. Mariner Books, 2005. 368 pp. Extremely loud was the sound of the reception given to Jonathan Safran Foer when he illuminated everything in 2002. And it wasn’t just arcane literati crying out from the pages of obscure journals: 250,000 plus copies of Foer’s first novel were […]

Review: Factotum. Directed by Brett Hamer. IFC Films, 2005. 94 minutes. As far as synopsizing a movie’s plot, Factotum, the new film based upon the Charles Bukowski novel of the same name, makes for an easy task. The film opens in a situation that seems all too familiar for Henry Chinaski, the protagonist and the real Bukowski’s […]