Month: August 2025
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Ellen Willott Étoile is an Amazon Prime series about the New York and Paris ballet companies’ attempt to resuscitate the dying dance. To drag ballet into the modern day, the heads decide to swap star dancers, conductors, and choreographers for a season, all the while playing up to the media and sheepishly receiving funding from…
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Ellen Willott Tell Me Everything is a story about stories. It is a meandering contemplation of the way that people push blindly against the solipsism of their minds to find sparks of connection, briefly illuminating the unknown and each other. Tell Me Everything follows Bob Burgess, a lawyer, and Lucy Burton, a semi-famous author, in…
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Ellen Willott Octavia Butler is a name that keeps popping up, so I decided to read some for myself. I go in blind and choose the only Octavia Butler book in the library that’s not second or third in a series: Fledgling. Thus my choice is made. My first impression isn’t great. We seem to…
Dog-eared Press 