Patricia Cornwell appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #257. Patricia Cornwell is most recently the author of Scarpetta. This interview serves as a companion piece…
Allison Amend most recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #256. Allison Amend is the author of Things That Pass for Love. Condition of Mr….
This is probably my last post for 2008. While I cannot personally identify the last 365 days as a triumph or a disappointment, I can…
I certainly didn’t plan it this way, but it appears that I’m now on record at five separate places (with many individuals who are smarter…
Ladies and gentlemen, by some miracle, Howard the Duck has made it onto Hulu. The film has never been released on DVD, although I understand…
Here are a few interesting side notes. The above video clip wasn’t the only embarrassing flub that Sylvia Browne made on The Montel Williams Show….
There are some strange souls who loosen “France” from their lips, suspecting that there may be more to this country’s name than a word uttered…
Goodloe Byron, who is not to be confused with the late Congressman, is a kind and excitable gentleman who permitted me to use a corner…
I had a bad day last Friday, a day considerably worse than Thomas L. Friedman’s, but it was an all-too-typical day for America. Because, as…
A: Is Harold Pinter dead? B: He is dead. A: Are you sure? B: Yes, I’m sure. (pause) A: Well, who will fill his shoes?…
The critics were not happy during the screening. The critic to my left fell asleep in his chair for an hour. The critic to my…
In Blake Bailey’s A Tragic Honesty, an excellent Richard Yates biography, Bailey depicts Yates’s efforts to adapt William Styron’s Lie Down in Darkness for director…
I’ve remained relatively silent about the holiday season, but the good folks at the Guardian, intuitively detecting my unspoken position, asked me to write a…
Since moving to New York, I have developed the habit of growing a beard and shaving it off (along with the hair on my head),…
Pardon the sparse updates. It’s been busy on this front, but more long-form content is coming. There will also be some more podcasts. In the…
Over the next day, I will be shifting this website over to a new hosting provider. If this site is down, well, you now know…
Before Jonathan Demme became a world-renowned filmmaker, he was a film critic working for a small newspaper. The glorious schlock producer Roger Corman was shrewd…
As a guy who writes unapologetically for both print and online outlets, I have a lot of fun reading smug and woefully out-of-touch posts from…
You may have observed a slight downturn in new content in the last week. In an effort to organize and clear away needless detritus, I’ll…
FSG has recently announced a spate of titles for fall 2009. Among the bunch is Richard Power’s new novel, Generosity: An Enhancement, which is set…
Shortly after last week’s wage freeze, Publishers Weekly‘s Jim Milliot is reporting that Macmillan Publishing has eliminated 64 positions. This is 4% of Macmillan’s U.S….
I am especially surprised to see that this week’s edition of the New York Times Book Review has a lot of good material. I don’t…
Paul Schrader recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #255. Paul Schrader is a filmmaker who is most recently the director of Adam Resurrected. The…
Nacho Vigalondo appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #254. Vigalondo is a filmmaker who is most recently the writer and director of Timecrimes, a film…
The loud flashes pierced into his eyes as they ushered him before the cameras. The shrapnel of sharp questions sliced into inextricable loss that the…
Twitter has changed everything for me. I say this after last year’s unsuccessful initial plunge. Back then, I did not understand Twitter and dismissed it,…
Bookbrunch is reporting that, contrary to Robert McCrum’s insistence that the literary lunch is dead, recently sacked Telegraph literary editor Sam Leith was indeed taken…
Gawker recently republished a memo distributed to Macmillan employees that announced a pay freeze for anyone making over $50,000. The memo contained one of the…
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