Dan Conley’s Writing Projects

We are all creatures of our times, but it’s important to remember that someone like Montaigne was as well. As scary as our current moment seems, how does it compare to France during religious wars of the 16th century? It is estimated that 2-4 million people died during the

I just finished rewatching the 1972 Eric Rohmer movie “Love In the Afternoon,” a movie that I don’t think left too strong an impression on me the first time through, not at least in comparison to Rohmer’s best work like “My Night at Maud’s” or “The Green

There are fewer chapters in episode 7 on the BluRay and I’m not sure why. The Criterion editors for, whatever reason, decided to have unusually long first and second chapters, so here we are in only the sixth segment and there are only about 10 minutes left in the

At this point, the episode seems to be spiraling towards a dreadful conclusion. It again begins with Anya having a night terror. Majga tries to wake her calmly, but eventually gives in to her mother’s method and shakes her awake. Majka explains to Wojtek that she has these screaming

In a recent essay I wrote about the singer songwriter Adrianne Lenker, I went on at some length about her early career masterpiece “Mythological Beauty,” a stunning song she wrote about her mother that is appreciative, understanding and shockingly mature, given that it details some of Adrianne’s childhood trauma

I had an interesting experience recently while creating a PowerPoint for a client. This client had delivered a speech to audiences in the past in a different language and he had me translate it into English, then sent along the deck he had used so I could update that as