“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
John Romano
John Romano is a freelance writer of literary criticism, memoir, television, and film. He is the author of Dickens and Reality, his screenplays include The Lincoln Lawyer and Intolerable Cruelty, and his story "The Book of Summer" appears in the Yale Review this April. He has taught recently at USC, and formerly at Columbia.
Books
Authors
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Jayne Cortez
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Genres
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
