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In this latest volume of Ig's popular Auteur series, New York Times bestselling author Steve Almond (Candyfreak, Against Football) examines the legacy of Ordinary People, Robert Redford's 1980 Oscar winning film, which he sees as a masterpiece of male vulnerability. Almond regards the film as a masterpiece of psychological drama, one of the few films that outshines its own literary source material. The film offered Almond and his brothers a private language, with which they could articulate anxieties and terrors that they couldn't always speak about openly, even as the children of two psychoanalysts. As a man struggling with the demise of his marriage, Almond sees the film as a kind of requiem for the happy, vibrant family he hoped to create. He also seesOrdinary Peopleasa powerful reminder of the values that prevailed before a rising tide of American cruelty, which has celebrated masculine rage and violence as a means to power. The movie isn't just about a grieving family, but a nation that has surrendered its capacity to love openly, to mourn collectively, and to forgive.

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Steve Almond is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. His recent books include the novel, All the Secrets of the World, which has been optioned for television by 20th Century Fox, and William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life. For four years, Steve hosted the New York Times Dear Sugars podcast with his pal Cheryl Strayed. He is the recipient of a 2022 NEA grant in fiction, and his short stories have been anthologized in the Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Erotica, and Best American Mysteries series. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.

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