It’s Hyperbaric Film Festival, written by Vincent Cosgrove, who taught at the Berkeley J-School in the early 1990s. He’s been writing this blog for six years, and I’ve just dug into it because an e-mail went around about his pieces for Page Views, a new column at the New York Daily News.

His first is Smiley Faces: The Secret Lives of le Carré’s Most Famous Spy.

But also read Hyperbaric. Few reporters bring as much intelligence to every post as Cosgrove. And I love the way he ends his Hyperbaric posting “Shameless Self Promotion,” introducing Page Views: “Read Page Views. Please keep reading this blog. But above all, keep reading books.”

And really, who would name their blog Hyperbaric? You gotta love Vince.

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