Welcome to Conversation Pieces, where Flavorpill curates five articles from the past week that you should read. Some are long, others are short. Some are from major publications, others aren’t. The only thing all these articles have in common is that they’re interesting. This week, we cover the shortage of women writers in 2010, the art of editing, how you can earn lots of money by fostering the infidelity of others, Billy Ray Cyrus’s regrets about making his daughter famous, and more. After the jump, find something exciting to discuss this weekend in the home, at the bar, or on the street.
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The unruly early films of Yugoslav “Black Wave” iconoclast Dušan Makavejev are rounded up in the latest Eclipse box set.
Before his suggestive opus WR: Mysteries of the Organism, in which he took on Wilhelm Reich’s orgasm-focused philosophy, Makavejev made three brash tales that probed love, labor, and the pursuit of happiness in his communist homeland during the ’60s. The liberated, sociopolitical bricolage of these films — Love Affair, for instance, features everything from a criminology lecture to a cooking demonstration — made him an art-house hero and, soon, an enemy of the state.
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