Life by Faith
By Jim Hinch

September 2009

Ugly New York
September 24, 2009
I watched an old movie last night, The Taking of Pelham 123. A remake came out earlier this year. I didn’t see it. I don’t want to see it. The point of the first one wasn’t the plot (silly) or the action (there is none). The point was the city, New York.
The original was made in 1974, when any movie set in New York was really about New York. And any movie about New York was about America.
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Where the Wild Things Are
September 16, 2009
Ever hear of a movie director named Spike Jonze? Maybe not. Chances are you’ve seen his work, though, or copies of it. He directed the movies Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, both of them heady, weird, self-referential and whooping fun.
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Fortunate Fall
September 3, 2009
Summer ended this week and I was glad to see it go. Of course it’s not really over. Real autumn is weeks away and it’s still warm. But for the past few days the humidity departed and that’s what matters.
East coast humidity destroys all joy for me. I never knew it growing up in California. When Kate and I moved to New York four years ago in the middle of a sweltering, oppressive, leaden July, I mourned all summer long, wondering what on earth I had done moving to a place where the simple act of going outside feels like being encased in a greenhouse coffin.
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Jim Hinch is a senior editor at Guideposts. He lives with his wife, Kate, and their two children, Frances and Benjamin, in New York City. Reach him at jhinch@guideposts.org.