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Adam Fleming Petty
Sep 14, 2025
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Greetings, readers! At the top here, I want to point out a piece I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s film, Punch-Drunk Love.

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A Fairy Tale of Rage & Humiliation: Adam Fleming Petty on Punch-Drunk Love
Today, we’ve got a beautiful essay by Adam Fleming Petty on perhaps my favorite Paul Thomas Anderson film, Punch-Drunk Love, released in 2002. Adam is a writer in Michigan. He is the author of a novella, Followers. His work has appeared in The Washington Post…
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My essay is a part of a series on the work of Anderson, leading up to the release of Anderson’s new film (and loose Pynchon adaptation), One Battle After Another. Read my piece, then read the whole series! Lot of great stuff ther…

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