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From On High
When I arrived at the base of Mount Cristo Rey earlier this month, the morning sun had already forced the thermometer on my rental car up into the low…
Kyle Paoletta
Jun 30
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Luddites On a Mission
The last time I visited Lake Powell was in February 2020, three weeks before the world stopped. I was in Page, Arizona, on a reporting trip, and had…
Kyle Paoletta
May 26
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I'm Writing a Book!
So delighted to share the news that I’m writing a book! The Publishers Marketplace announcement covers most of the highlights, but to expand on that…
Kyle Paoletta
Apr 2
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Under Lock & Key
I’ve been thinking of starting a diary. Which, of course, is not the same as actually starting one. The inclination to journal was triggered by — what…
Kyle Paoletta
Jan 26
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Compact Crossover
A woman pulls up to an overlook in Northern New Mexico. She unloads a tent from her trunk and settles in for the evening, holding her camera ready to…
Kyle Paoletta
Aug 12, 2021
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American Pestilence
There were twenty-four public massacres in the two years it took Seamus McGraw to write From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter. Not…
Kyle Paoletta
May 20, 2021
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in medias res
“I thought my ideas were so clear.” That’s Guido Anselmi, the stand-in for Federico Fellini in 8 ½, trying to explain his inability to take the movie…
Kyle Paoletta
Feb 26, 2021
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Not So Fast
Despite its recency, my memories of 2010 are decidedly vague. I spent the first months of the year in the rambling house I lived in at Tufts, mostly in…
Kyle Paoletta
Dec 16, 2020
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Driven to Distraction
The conceit of the Scottish artist Douglas Gordon’s 1993 film “24 Hour Psycho” is simple: the movie Psycho, slowed down to play at two frames per…
Kyle Paoletta
Oct 16, 2020
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Step Back
What are you willing to give up to end white supremacy? This, our nation’s most recent bout of reckoning with pervasive racial injustice, has blessedly…
Kyle Paoletta
Jul 7, 2020
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On Looking
Throughout the 1530s— a decade when plagues were a touch more commonplace than they are today, though no less dreadful— a German painter by the name of…
Kyle Paoletta
Apr 28, 2020
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Climate Control
When, in the 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright set his Arizona apprentices to clear some land for a permanent camp in the McDowell Mountains north of…
Kyle Paoletta
Feb 19, 2020
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