• Hilton Als (born 1960) is an American writer and theater critic. He is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, an associate professor...
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  • and features her parents and their reaction to her art. Cultural critic Hilton Als praised this piece in a 2017 review of Poor People's TV Room. The piece...
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    criticism "still gets her (Didion's) hackles up, decades later". Critic Hilton Als suggested that Didion is reread often "because of the honesty of the voice...
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  • White Girls is a nonfiction book by Hilton Als, published November 5, 2013 by McSweeney's. Combining elements of memoir, criticism, fiction and non-fiction...
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  • Miro, London, 13 November – 20 December 2019 "Celia Paul", curated by Hilton Als, Yale Center for British Art, 3 April – 12 August 2018 "The Sea and The...
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  • Smithsonian Institution. Hilton Als, Downtown Chronicles, “WAGSTAFF'S EYE,” The New Yorker, January 13, 1997, p. 36 ALS, Hilton Downtown Chronicles: Wagstaff's...
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    highest praise. Angelou wrote five collections of essays, which writer Hilton Als called her "wisdom books" and "homilies strung together with autobiographical...
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    Art of Fiction No. 218". The Paris Review. Retrieved January 6, 2017. Als, Hilton (Summer 2012). "Wallace Shawn, The Art of Theater No. 17". The Paris...
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    "can be transformed into a strong evocation of the human spirit". Writer Hilton Als calls Angelou one of the "pioneers of self-exposure", willing to focus...
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  • Journey Now (1993) and Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997), which writer Hilton Als called her "wisdom books" and "homilies strung together with autobiographical...
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    finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for 1990. New Yorker critic Hilton Als wrote in 2010 that she had done "more than her fair share in terms of...
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    the cast were recognized as some of the "best performers of 2010" by Hilton Als in The New Yorker. Young married actor Tom Noonan in 1992, and they had...
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    Gardens at Rotten Tomatoes Grey Gardens: Staunch Characters an essay by Hilton Als at the Criterion Collection Grey Gardens essay by Daniel Eagan In America's...
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    role and found herself unable to detach from it after each performance. Hilton Als of The New Yorker considered her "daring and nonjudgmental embodiment...
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  • monograph of 700 Nimes Road was published by Prestel with essays by writer Hilton Als, Taylor's personal assistant Tim Mendelson, magazine editor Ingrid Sischy...
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    Chris (June 29, 2020). "Writer Jane Wagner to Join Wife Lily Tomlin, Hilton Als for Lambda Literary Conversation". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July...
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    the shrewdness of her analysis or the easy authority of her writing." Hilton Als of The New Yorker, "for theater reviews written with such erudition and...
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  • the song with Meeropol and Sonny White. The writers David Margolick and Hilton Als dismissed that claim in their work Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song...
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  • awarded a National Medal of Arts for exploring the depths of sorrow. Hilton Als Tom Brokaw Dick Cheney Joan Didion Griffin Dunne John Gregory Dunne Tony...
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    Danny Mendelsohn, set the poem to music. The writers David Margolick and Hilton Als dismissed that claim in their work Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song...
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  • includes 12 essays, written between 1968 and 2000, and a foreword by critic Hilton Als. Like many of Didion's previous essay collections, the pieces in the book...
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  • Hilton Als, Junot calls it a foundational story, and an alternative to the narrative "Negocios," found in Drown. http://lithub.com/junot-diaz-hilton...
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    some setbacks for her ongoing activism. According to writer and critic Hilton Als, her performances starting with They Shoot Horses, Don't They? heralded...
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  • have included Jimmy Wales (2010), Alice Waters (2011), Maya Lin (2013), Hilton Als (2015), and Fran Lebowitz (2016, in conversation with Martin Scorsese)...
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    character and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Iago. Writing for The New Yorker, Hilton Als commended Chastain for finding "a beautiful maternal depth" in her role...
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  • in Evan's mother, who has one of the most moving songs in the show.)" Hilton Als of The New Yorker was also critical, writing "It would have been amazing...
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  • Peter Knes, Leilah Weinraub, Edmund White, Terence Koh, Walter Pfeiffer, Hilton Als, and Slava Mogutin. Readers submitted interviews, letters, photographs...
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  • little children: The Sturm und Drang of David Adjmi". The Brooklyn Rail. Als, Hilton (January 26, 2009). "By the Skin of Our Teeth". The New Yorker. Gardner...
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  • was included in a 2010 exhibition in Berlin curated by Peter Doig and Hilton Als. In October 2011, an exhibition of 50 of Boscoe Holder's artworks was...
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    outsider position at Tuskegee "sharpened his satirical lens," critic Hilton Als believes: "Standing apart from the university's air of sanctimonious Negritude...
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