I’ve spent all these years without any influence from Woody Allen. The first real exposure was in my short story class two semesters ago, where I got bored with the inane prattle and senseless argumentation in the class, and decided to read one of his short stories, “The Kugelmass Episode.” It was very good – surprisingly good even. It was a story about man that gets inserted into the novel Madame Bovary in order to have an affair on his real life wife and had a tick of metafiction in that classes reading the book around the country noticed this strange character addition. He had a great lithe approach to humor in writing. I appreciated it as a novice writer.
The other day at the library I stumbled on his Academy Award winning movie Annie Hall and decided to give it a whirl. I was in the mood for something light, something reputed to have helped propel a lot of the modern romantic comedies.
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