Abbott's Zine

Notes on Eephus (2024) and Friendship (2024)

I look at two recent releases and talk about modern loneliness, male friendships, baseball, and other things.

Jun 6 • 

Alex Abbott

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May 2025

Assateague Horses

A short story

May 20 • 

Alex Abbott

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Life During Wartime: On Magda Szabo's The Fawn and Victor Serge's Unforgiving Years

Thoughts on two mid-20th century pieces of literary fiction that I am much, much too dumb for.

May 15 • 

Alex Abbott

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March 2025

A Face in the Crowd, Red Rocket, and the Age of the Charlatan

My long stupid political dirge, I will probably write about Pavement in the next one guys.

Mar 31 • 

Alex Abbott

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My Top 10 Steely Dan Tracks

I recently read Alex Pappadamas and Joan LeMay’s excellent book Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Soul Survivors from the Songs of…

Mar 11 • 

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December 2023

Help Me Make it Through the Night: Fat City's Poetic Loneliness

John Huston’s late career was just another anomaly in a career filled with them.

Dec 12, 2023 • 

Alex Abbott

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March 2023

Stray Thoughts on Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law

Jim Jarmusch has made a career of never doing one for the studios.

Mar 23, 2023 • 

Alex Abbott

December 2022

Inherent Vice: Falling into the Past

The difficulty in adapting some of the 20th literary century masters (your Pynchons, Bolaños, Faulkers, DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Cormac, Joyce, Faulkner…

Dec 31, 2022 • 

Alex Abbott

November 2022

Full Metal Jacket: Programmed to Conform

From the first seconds of Full Metal Jacket, the individual is being shaved down to the scalp.

Nov 26, 2022 • 

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A Parking Lot is an Island: Some Thoughts on Richard Linklater’s Suburbia (1996)

Linklater exists in the cultural mind as a filmmaker known for, among other films, hazy hangout pictures.

Nov 18, 2022 • 

Alex Abbott

July 2022