Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is brilliant.
Kate Winslet charms as the boisterous, quirky and impulsive Clementine. Her hair color changes, seemingly, with her moods: Tangerine, Brilliant Blue, Blood Red. Jim Carrey plays Joel, her “nice” boyfriend, a brown-haired, quieter and often bumbling counterpart to Clementine’s energy.
After an argument, Clementine erases Joel from her memory; [...]

Nicole Krauss

My new favorite writer is Nicole Krauss. I just finished reading her debut novel, Man Walks into a Room, and she had a stellar short story in the Feb. 9 New Yorker, “The Last Words on Earth.” She had a piece in the Best Short Stories of 2003 anthology as well.
She’s young, pretty and just [...]