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Bret Senft

Bret Senft is a graduate of the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. He has worked as a writer-producer in corporate television, and as a contributing writer for The New York Times, Newsday, Metropolis magazine, and other publications. He is a tenured writing instructor in New York, where his family has lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn since the 1880s.

The Confessions of St. George

I'm not much of a Star Wars fan, so I didn’t pay attention to the hoopla surrounding the 1999 release of Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace written and directed by George Lucas. It was apparently a prequel: the story of Darth Vader as a child—precocious and open to influence from…the Dark Side. Still, there was so much hype surrounding the lengthy (133 minutes) initial journey to that side of the pre-Luke...

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