F.X. Feeney is the author of Orson Welles: Power, Heart, and Soul, published in May 2015 by The Critical Press. As a filmmaker and critic based in Los Angeles his screen credits include: The Big Brass Ring and Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession. He has previously published two book-length essays for Taschen: Roman Polanski and Michael Mann.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
A Citizen of the World: Orson Welles at 100
On the occasion of Orson Welles’s 100th birthday, an excerpt from a new biography by F.X. Feeney....
A Saint with a Bad Temper: J. F. Powers and Company
One of the greatest American writers of the 20th century is one that few Americans read, if they’ve heard of him at all....
Us Is Doomed: On Walt Kelly and Mr. Fish
ldquo;EDITORIAL CARTOONS ARE STALE, Simplistic, and Just Not Funny,” read a recent headline in Slate. “If you study ...
Ben-Gore
Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 (Library of Congress). Gore Vidal died on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, in Los Angeles. ...
The Bradbury Era
Bradbury addresses every reader with a fatherly clarity. He’s instructive, in the profound sense of passing experience on....
Between the Georges: In Memory of George Hickenlooper (1963-2010)
He seemed poised at last for the first-class recognition he had worked for so vigorously his whole life....
A Wilderness of Contradictions: On Soft Skull's Deep Focus Series
Improbably close readings of questionably canonical texts are the order of the day in these books....
