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Stefany Anne Golberg

Waiting

Posted on Monday, Oct 31, 2011 12:28AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Stefany Anne Golberg

by Stefany Anne Golberg Meditations on waiting come in cycles. We’ve always waited—to live is to wait. It’s a devastating thought. To live is to wait. We haven’t always known we’re waiting. For millions of years, we waited to evolve, we waited for ourselves, but we didn’t know we were waiting then. For millions of…

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On Wes Anderson’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Posted on Monday, Jan 25, 2010 12:08AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Stefany Anne Golberg

by Stefany Anne Golberg Wes Anderson is a dandy who would make Oscar Wilde proud. Of all the sizzling epigrams that geysered out of Wilde’s pen, a favorite is, “A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature”. It’s a very dandy thing to say. Dandies like Wilde don't think that nature…

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Two weeks in China: tourist snapshots, Part II

Posted on Monday, Dec 15, 2008 12:15AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Stefany Anne Golberg

Part I of this piece appeared last week at 3QD and can be seen here. by Stefany Anne Golberg May 12 2pm Bill was raised in a poor mountainous village in Zhejiang province (“Where is Hangzhou you will go there”), the son of tea farmers. He was allowed to leave his village and attend university…

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Two weeks in China: tourist snapshots

Posted on Monday, Dec 8, 2008 12:08AMFriday, December 8, 2017 by Stefany Anne Golberg

By Stefany Anne Golberg There’s a curious smell in Chinatown. It smells of fish and death and moldering cardboard. The streets teem with people moving and spinning like the Teacups ride at Disneyland. I try to keep up with my mother, father, and older brother but they are too quick for me. My father is…

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