Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive of 1,364 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

  • “The thing about grief is it makes people very uncomfortable. In part because it reminds them of mortality.”

  • La jetée

    Directed by Chris Marker

    “Nothing tells memories from ordinary moments. Only afterwards do they claim remembrance on account of their scars.”

  • The Invention of Morel

    by Adolfo Bioy Casares

    “The habits of our lives makes us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world.”

  • The City and the Pillar

    by Gore Vidal

    “Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.”

  • In Praise of Shadows

    by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

    “The quality that we call beauty, however, must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows towards beauty’s ends.”

  • The Novices of Lerna

    by Ángel Bonomini

    “The path of the people is a backward path that goes forward, in a time that comes from the future and will end in the past, because the time of our countrymen more than path is time, and more than time is path.”

  • Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

  • Any Person Is the Only Self

    by Elisa Gabbert

    “Anything you do every day—that’s your life.”

  • Blue Moon

    Directed by Richard Linklater

    “What do you call a tireless, relentless homosexual? ‘Inde-faggot-ible.’”

  • Disneyland Handcrafted

    Directed by Leslie Iwerks

    “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”

  • Bugonia

    Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

    “We need to send the message that we have a new culture here now. Where people should, of course, feel free to leave at 5:30 and be with their families. No one is going to be overworked like in the past. No more unpleasant incidents. But, of course, it’s not compulsory. And obviously, if people still have work to do, they should absolutely stay and continue to work. But it’s not strictly enforced. Although we still do want to meet quotas. So if we can do that, just remembering, you know, we are running a business here, so “let your conscience guide you” kind of thing. Yeah? Good.”

  • A Night at the Cabaret

    Directed by Kaitlyn Chantry (Longwood Players)

    Patrick Harris performs “Christmas Tips” from Co-op: The Musical
  • Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

    by Agnes Arnold-Forster

    “One of the most confounding things about nostalgia is not just its transformation from disease to emotion, but also its slow conversion from something associated with place, to a feeling connected to time.”

  • Some Like it Hot

    Book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin / Music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman / Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw (Broadway in Boston)

    Curtain call at Some Like It Hot

  • Secret Mall Apartment

    Directed by Jeremy Workman

    “People being evicted, people losing their spaces, people getting kicked out, people getting priced out, it was just sorta something kinda happening. The mall comes, totally remakes your neighborhood, you adjust. It doesn’t adjust to you. You adjust to it. And it was impossible to not see the apartment project through that lens.”

  • One Battle After Another

    Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

    “I’ve got a little Latino Harriet Tubman situation going on at my place. All legit. From the heart. No cash.”

  • Oedipus

    Written and directed by Robert Icke, after Sophocles (Studio 54)

  • Finding Dorothy Parker

    Compiled and directed by Douglas Carter Beane (Laurie Beechman Theatre)

    Anika Larsen, Jackie Hoffmann, Julie Halston, and Ann Harada perform
  • Art in Tune 2026

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    Members of the Handel and Haydn Society perform
  • Barber: Vanessa

    Music by Samuel Barber / Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti / Conducted by Andris Nelsons (Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Lyric Opera)

    The ensemble takes a bow after Vanessa