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  • We Own This City Television · 2020s

    We Own This City is an American crime drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. The miniseries was developed by George Pelecanos and David Simon and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. The six-episode series premiered on HBO on April 25, 2022.

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  • Ghost World Film · 2000s

    Ghost World is a 2001 black comedy film co-written and directed by Terry Zwigoff. Based on the 1990s comic book of the same name by Daniel Clowes, the story focuses on the lives of teenage outsiders Enid and Rebecca, who face a rift in their friendship as Enid takes an interest in an older man named Seymour, and bec...

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  • Tales from the Loop Television · 2020s

    Tales from the Loop is an American science fiction drama television series developed and written by Nathaniel Halpern based on the art book of the same name by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag. The eight-episode first season was released in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video on April 3, 2020.

    PowerNatureSurveillance
  • Money Books · 1980s

    Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. It follows John Self, an advertising director whose hedonism and compulsive spending propel a chaotic transatlantic film project and a personal unravelling. Contemporary and later critics have frequently read the book as a sharp satire of 1980s consumer culture a...

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  • The Book of Disquiet Books · 1980s

    The Book of Disquiet is a work by the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935). Published posthumously, The Book of Disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a "factless autobiography". The publication was credited to Bernardo Soares, one of the author's alter...

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  • Ghost World Film
  • We Own This City Television
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  • She Is the Darkness: Book Two of Glittering Stone: A Novel of the Black Company Music
  • Lies Weeping: A Chronicle of the Black Company: The First Book of a Pitiless Rain Music
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  • The Body Keeps the Score Essays
  • The Book of Tea Essays