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Tom Connelly

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Tom Connelly is the author of The Mansion, Zworsky's Children, Charlie One, and Flight Unknown. He grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley and played drums and guitar in several underground bands in the 1990s. He was one of the founding members of ALL OUT WAR.

He also published two academic books, Cinema of Confinement (Northwestern University Press) and Capturing Digital Media (Bloomsbury) as Thomas J. Connelly.

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	Flight Unknown 3.80 avg rating — 60 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Zworsky's Children (Zworsky's Children #1) 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Suburban Tales (Suburban Tales #1) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936), directed by Jean Renoir. This week I started watching the Criterion Channelâs curation of French poetic realism. I had a seen a few films from this period, but I was curious to learn more about this movement. The Crime of Monsieur Lange is an entertaining film about a small publishing company run by Pau

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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955

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