Ray Bradbury up close and personal.
June 14th, 2012
Did Chávez create Venezuela? Or did Venezuela create Chávez?
March 20th, 2013
On Poetry and Greece
May 10th, 2013
On Table Tennis and Track & Field
August 3rd, 2012
The Epilogues
August 13th, 2012
Do we even have to say that physical beauty is beside the point when discussing the work of a major author?
February 25th, 2012
On Mailer, Eggers, and the protagonists that walk off the page.
December 7th, 2012
On the film adaptation of James Welch's 'Winter in the Blood'
October 27th, 2012
I’d found my thing. I embraced the scary. I befriended it. The monsters and I fell in love, and I didn’t question why. I was home.
October 30th, 2011
Cage, so long associated with the New York avant-garde, now strikes me as quintessentially Californian, and more specifically, Angeleno.
November 2nd, 2011
Word and line can marry enticingly in the art of tattoo.
May 16th, 2011
if you self-publish, you’re branded a sinner of sorts.
March 17th, 2012
Louis Menand’s 'The Metaphysical Club' and Alex Ross’s 'The Rest is Noise' make intellectual history into page-turners.
February 1st, 2012
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
