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    What Our Contributors Are Reading This Month

    by The Paris Review May 11, 2018 6 minutes

    In place of our staff picks this week, we’ve asked contributors from our Spring issue to write about what they’re reading, looking at, and listening to this month.

    Still from Hereditary, 2018.

    For months now, I have been waiting anxiously for the movie  to come out. It’s supposed to be out on June 8, but I keep hoping that this is a publicity joke and that it will come out sooner. Like everyone else, I found out about the movie back in January, when they showed it at the Sundance Film Festival, and the audience lost their minds and reported back to the Internet. Everyone who has seen it has said that it is some sort of love child between (excuse the pun) and , maybe with some of thrown in. I don’t know how this could even be possible, but please count me in. As the weather grows warmer, the flowers bloom, and the date grows nearer and nearer to its release, I get even more lovesick and pathetic withlives up to the hype. I don’t know. I have faith. —

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