This is just a reminder that, next week, we’ll be devoting this website to a detailed roundtable discussion of Sarah Hall’s How to Paint a…
A good book is one that we don’t actually read. And a good book is one that a writer doesn’t actually write. It’s what makes…
“People are frightened of fashion,” explains the frosty Anna Wintour at the beginning of The September Issue, a documentary concerning itself with the behind-the-scenes assembly…
The realities were already fixed; the illness was understood to be terminal, and the energies of The Movement were long since dissipated by the rush…
His voice gnawed across three thousand miles of ratty telephone lines in the days before Skype took away the novelty. He expressed kindness to a…
Many reviewers have kvetched a good deal about the page count and weight of William T. Vollmann’s Imperial, and this is probably because they have…
The important thing to understand about Quentin Tarantino is that, as an artist, he has no interest in real life. (Mr. Tarantino’s excellent Crate and…
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Last week, I learned that somebody really hated my guts. This person never actually told me why. So I sent this person an email with…
My review of Richard Russo’s That Old Cape Magic appears in today’s Chicago Sun-Times. And just to be clear on this, I filed my review…
Richard Russo recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #301. Richard Russo is most recently the author of That Old Cape Magic. He previously appeared…
“Come with me if you want to love.” I expected that line at several points, and I confess that great expectation as a man who…
I don’t know if I would go so far as to call György Pálfi our next Fellini (circa late 1960s), our next Pasolini, or even…
In today’s Barnes & Noble Review, I take on Nicholas Meyer’s The View from the Bridge. Meyer is best known as the man behind Star…
My first instinct was to dismiss the silly second half of Andreas Dresen’s Wolke Neun (Cloud 9 for Yanks), which wallows in childish dialogue (“That’s…
During the week of September 7, 2009, this website will be devoting its attentions to discussing Sarah Hall’s forthcoming novel, How to Paint a Dead…
As Simon Owens recently observed, tr.im — a service that shortened URLs — is now gone. The links that it once helpfully compressed are now…
(Paean for the eccentric and the misunderstood courtesy of banter from Megg and Kevin at Quiddity.)
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John Hughes was associated with launching the careers of Brat Packers Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall and for lacing his entertainments with candid teenage…
Editor & Publisher has revealed that Kill Beller doesn’t believe editors is necessary. Beller, whom is the Executive Washroom of the New Turk Times, believes…
Dear Messrs. Smith and Meacham: It was bad enough when you obliterated nearly all of your arts editors and senior cultural critics with the March…
At the bash at Jimmy’s that Warner Brothers records gave for Alan Price (he wrote the score for “O Lucky Man!” and performs in the…
The critics fidgeted in their fat chairs, boasting of long lunches with publicists and grand gifts from studios, while waiting for the descent into darkness….
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