Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy writes about film, theater, and culture. She lives in Denver, teaches nonfiction writing, and is at work on Icarus Ascending, a memoir set during the early years of the AIDS crisis. Since returning to the West after years on the East Coast, she has often looked to Joan Didion to grapple with writing about place.
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Review: A Shakespearean Take on J. Robert Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s masterful epic about the development of the atomic bomb is big and sweeping, yet small in its view of the destruction wrought by the weapon.
Jul 21, 2023
The Pervasive Loneliness of ‘Play It As It Lays’
The 1972 film, much like the novel on which it is based, connects themes of longing and despair with our need to endure.
Apr 5, 2022