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Author: Matt Hanson

Matt Hanson lives in New Orleans and is contributing editor at The Arts Fuse and American Purpose. His work has also appeared in The American Prospect, The Baffler, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, LARB, The Millions, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. He Tweets at: @MattHansonAF. He can usually be found in the nearest available used book store.
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07/27/2020

In Full Flood

Celebrating 30 years with They Might be Giants

by Matt Hanson

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07/06/2020

Let’s Talk about Sex . . . Museums

Reflections from Amsterdam and Paris

by Matt Hanson

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04/16/2020

A Pretty Peggy

The perverse ambiguities of Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue”

by Matt Hanson

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02/03/2020

Watch My Dusty

In Memphis with Dusty Springfield

by Matt Hanson

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11/11/2019

Once Upon a Tarantino

in Context

by Matt Hanson

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09/12/2019

Meeting all the Criterion

What The Criterion Collection means to film fans

by Matt Hanson

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05/16/2019

Handling the Truth

Studying Clouzot’s La Vérité

by Matt Hanson

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02/21/2019

A Brief Escape

Reflections on the film Brief Encounter

by Matt Hanson

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01/03/2019

All-Star Flirtation

Maturity, sexuality, and intellectuality in Bull Durham

by Matt Hanson

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09/10/2018

Giant Steps

Getting hip to jazz

by Matt Hanson

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