David Thorburn

Professor of Literature and Comparative MediaMIT

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David Milch's Depraved Saints

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David Thorburn MIT

April 27, 2012
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David Milch's Depraved Saints Deadwood David Milch characters authorship Curator's Note Do all truly compelling story-tellers rehearse the same preoccupations – themes, obsessions – in every story they tell? Perhaps not all. But think of Dostoye ...

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Re: The Idea of the End of a Thing

Endings

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David Thorburn MIT

Saturday, April 28, 2012 — 1:15 am
These are very suggestive responses. I embrace Sean's fine insistence that we savor the achieved Deadwood and recognize that however it might have ended, those outcomes have been prefigured and dramatized in the stories we have. It's also truly ...