Calvin McMillin
@roninonempty.bsky.social
While visiting Sydney, I picked up a copy of THE HITCHER from Australian distributor Umbrella Entertainment (@umbrellaent.bsky.social)!
June 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
While visiting Sydney, I picked up a copy of THE HITCHER from Australian distributor Umbrella Entertainment (@umbrellaent.bsky.social)!
My essay — “Why I Teach THE CATCHER IN THE RYE” — is now available for free online from BROAD SOUND MAGAZINE! Anyway…
"Six years ago, when I joined the English department at my current school, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye was required reading for all sophomores. Since then, I’ve learned a lot from teaching the book." - @roninonempty.bsky.social
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Why I Teach “The Catcher in the Rye”
Illustration by Maja Pučko My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence: An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of e…
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March 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
My essay — “Why I Teach THE CATCHER IN THE RYE” — is now available for free online from BROAD SOUND MAGAZINE! Anyway…
My essay on my favorite Haruki Murakami novel is now available to read for free!
"While each of Murakami’s books has its fans, the one that I have come to love is Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. It’s the most meaningful of all his works to me, but that’s not the only reason I like the book." - @roninonempty.bsky.social
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Into the Great Unknown: Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Calvin McMillin)
Illustration by Odin Coleman cw: sexual assault & self-harm Haruki Murakami is my favorite author. After falling in love with his novel Norwegian Wood in college, I consumed a steady diet of hi…
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March 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
My essay on my favorite Haruki Murakami novel is now available to read for free!
Things just got real in KAMEN RIDER BLACK RX…
February 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Things just got real in KAMEN RIDER BLACK RX…
David Lynch has affected my life in profound, deeply personal ways. His body of work reminds me that yes, the world is a cruel, absurd place, but there also exists wonder, humor, and joy in the smallest of things. Even in the darkness, we can all be agents of light.
To the Very End | Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) - Bright Wall/Dark Room
As I watched Twin Peaks: The Return each week, I couldn’t help but recall the words of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky: “The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his so...
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January 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
David Lynch has affected my life in profound, deeply personal ways. His body of work reminds me that yes, the world is a cruel, absurd place, but there also exists wonder, humor, and joy in the smallest of things. Even in the darkness, we can all be agents of light.
SECRET: A HIDDEN SCORE (2024) is a poignant Japanese remake of the Taiwanese original that starred Jay Chou & Gwei Lun-mei. The new one has an ending that is more logically consistent, but I kinda preferred the over-the-top, “don’t think too hard about it” climax of the 2007 film.
December 26, 2024 at 8:57 AM
SECRET: A HIDDEN SCORE (2024) is a poignant Japanese remake of the Taiwanese original that starred Jay Chou & Gwei Lun-mei. The new one has an ending that is more logically consistent, but I kinda preferred the over-the-top, “don’t think too hard about it” climax of the 2007 film.
The audio version of my essay, “Why I Teach THE CATCHER IN THE RYE” is available for a listen! Now, I don’t exactly have a podcast-friendly recording environment or sound equipment, but I think it turned out okay! Anyway…
Have you caught up on the Broad Sound podcast? Hear the newest episode, read by @roninonempty.bsky.social, and then visit the backlog for essays by @dodgyboffin.bsky.social, @bcwallin.com, @justinh94.bsky.social, and more! Available wherever you get your pods! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Why I Teach
Podcast Episode · The Broad Sound Podcast · 11/19/2024 · 19m
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November 25, 2024 at 12:34 AM
The audio version of my essay, “Why I Teach THE CATCHER IN THE RYE” is available for a listen! Now, I don’t exactly have a podcast-friendly recording environment or sound equipment, but I think it turned out okay! Anyway…
Reposted by Calvin McMillin
Have you caught up on the Broad Sound podcast? Hear the newest episode, read by @roninonempty.bsky.social, and then visit the backlog for essays by @dodgyboffin.bsky.social, @bcwallin.com, @justinh94.bsky.social, and more! Available wherever you get your pods! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Why I Teach
Podcast Episode · The Broad Sound Podcast · 11/19/2024 · 19m
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November 23, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Have you caught up on the Broad Sound podcast? Hear the newest episode, read by @roninonempty.bsky.social, and then visit the backlog for essays by @dodgyboffin.bsky.social, @bcwallin.com, @justinh94.bsky.social, and more! Available wherever you get your pods! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
My essays on BROKER (2022), ELVIS (2022), DECISION TO LEAVE (2022), DRIVE MY CAR (2021), BURNING (2018), TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (2017), TONY TAKITANI (2004), CHAN IS MISSING (1982), & THE CRIMSON KIMONO (1959) can be read @bwdr.bsky.social! www.brightwalldarkroom.com/author/calvi...
December 15, 2023 at 5:07 PM
My essays on BROKER (2022), ELVIS (2022), DECISION TO LEAVE (2022), DRIVE MY CAR (2021), BURNING (2018), TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (2017), TONY TAKITANI (2004), CHAN IS MISSING (1982), & THE CRIMSON KIMONO (1959) can be read @bwdr.bsky.social! www.brightwalldarkroom.com/author/calvi...
Reposted by Calvin McMillin
New today on the site:
@roninonempty.bsky.social on TONY TAKITANI, Jun Ichikawa's adaptation of a Haruki Murakami story, "the inexplicable compulsion to collect things," and "what we do when the people we love, the ones who once imbued these material objects with meaning, are no longer with us?"
@roninonempty.bsky.social on TONY TAKITANI, Jun Ichikawa's adaptation of a Haruki Murakami story, "the inexplicable compulsion to collect things," and "what we do when the people we love, the ones who once imbued these material objects with meaning, are no longer with us?"
Tony Takitani (2004): Collecting Dust
Jun Ichikawa's 'Tony Takitani' contemplates the inevitable conclusion of all the collections we attempt to build for ourselves.
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December 6, 2023 at 9:14 PM
New today on the site:
@roninonempty.bsky.social on TONY TAKITANI, Jun Ichikawa's adaptation of a Haruki Murakami story, "the inexplicable compulsion to collect things," and "what we do when the people we love, the ones who once imbued these material objects with meaning, are no longer with us?"
@roninonempty.bsky.social on TONY TAKITANI, Jun Ichikawa's adaptation of a Haruki Murakami story, "the inexplicable compulsion to collect things," and "what we do when the people we love, the ones who once imbued these material objects with meaning, are no longer with us?"