Alan Arkin & American Artistry
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WHAT WRITERS TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PERSEVERANCE
The first rule of writing is to understand, and eventually embrace the fact that there...
Frederic Forrest: RIP, Chef
If you’re a fan of Francis Ford Coppola, you are familiar with Frederic Forrest. If...
6/26/87: Full Metal Jacket
Thanks to the remarkable team at All The Right Movies (a crucial Twitter follow if...
Original Poem: Sustenance
It’s an honor, every time, to have any literary magazine accept your work, and it’s...
James Gandolfini: Ten Years Gone
Man. Ten years ago, today (and it seemed an intolerably premature death to me, at...
A Story about Storytelling
What are you going to do, teach? This was the question. It’s what everyone asked, what...
Cormac McCarthy: A Hero for Those in Need of Anti-Heroes
Cormac McCarthy was, like another uber-masculine (albeit polar opposite, aesthetically) writer of the old school, Philip...
AI Will Not Replace Art
“Etonne-moi!” —Serge Diaghilev, to Jean Cocteau Adam Gopnik, the prolific and brilliant writer whose work...
1993 + 30 = Saturn (or, a Sun Ra Sampler)
Thirty years ago, today, Herman Poole Blount, aka Sonny Blount, aka Le Sony’r Ra, aka...