Writing my book, I kept asking myself: Why haven’t we fought back? Why don’t 21st century writers organize?
November 12th, 2011
It wasn't Chaplin they cheered, of course; it was the Tramp.
April 18th, 2012
On Abel Gance's five and half hour silent film, 'Napoleon'
July 19th, 2012
"The problem with Krazy Kat is the same as its genius: It cannot be consumed quickly or easily."
May 16th, 2012
As it ticks away, "The Clock" taps into the enormous storehouse of images bouncing around in our heads.
July 14th, 2011
Plimpton: The Movie
May 26th, 2013
Education is as close to a secular religion as we have in the United States.
November 15th, 2011
Things Iowa Workshop Writers Say
July 30th, 2011
On the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet
September 2nd, 2012
A mother's attempts to protect her son from her own past
July 2nd, 2012
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
