Brokeback Mountain (Ep. 38)

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• Annie Proulx’s original short story, first published in the New Yorker on October 13, 1997, an expanded version of which was published in Close Range: Wyoming Stories. Read Close Range on iBooks or Amazon.
• Brokeback Mountain, the 2005 movie directed by Ang Lee, written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, and starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• limn, verb, to represent in drawing or painting; to portray in words; describe
• Matthew Shepard
• Our own episode on The Birdcage
• Ang Lee, director of The Wedding Banquet, Sense and Sensibility, Hulk, and Brokeback Mountain
• “Gene Shalit's Brokeback Mountain review angers gay rights group” from The Advocate
• “No Man’s Land” from The New Republic
• “Return to the Range” from The Wall Street Journal
• Brokeback Mountain, the 2014 opera by composer Charles Wuorinen, with libretto by Annie Proulx

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