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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....
F.X. Feeney
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.
Articles
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 all of the recent Pulitzer winners in the cartooning category,” writes Farhad Manjoo, “you’ll see that ...
Ben-Gore
Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 (Library of Congress). Gore Vidal died on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, in Los Angeles. IN THE “BLACK WINTER” OF DECEMBER, 1953, novelist Gore Vidal checked his bank book and made a life-altering ...
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....
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