“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
Michael Kurcfeld
Michael Kurcfeld is a journalist, originally from the print world, but since 1990 working in electronic media. Since founding Stonehenge Media, he has produced film and arts coverage coverage for NYTimes.com (where a coyly edited version of this segment first appeared), WSJ.com, Huffington Post, PBS, Bravo, Yahoo Movies, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Film.com, and now Los Angeles Review of Books.
Genres
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... 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
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More