Matthew Di Paoli

Matthew Di Paoli received his BA at Boston College where he won the Dever Fellowship and the Cardinal Cushing Award for Creative Writing. He recently finished his MFA at Columbia University for Fiction.

Posts by Matthew Di Paoli

On Location in NYC: The Harlem Tenenbaums
by Matthew Di Paoli | Aug 12, 2015 | Arts & Culture, Creative Nonfiction, Film and Media | 0
Perhaps the defining stylistic vision of one of this generation’s most celebrated directors, Wes Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums is a film about family, nostalgia, and the intricacies of genuine connection: not concepts normally...
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On Location in NYC: Wall Street – How Good Is Our Greed?
by Matthew Di Paoli | Aug 12, 2015 | Arts & Culture, Creative Nonfiction, Film and Media | 0
In Oliver Stone’s classic, Wall Street, Gordon Gecko (Michael Douglas) famously proclaims, “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” He does so in an impassioned speech to shareholders of a company in which he’s trying to...
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