Born Slippy

Howard A. Rodman&nbsp;is the president of the Writers Guild of America West. He wrote the films&nbsp;Joe Gould’s Secret,&nbsp;Savage Grace, and&nbsp;August, and the novel&nbsp;Destiny Express. He is professor and former chair of the writing division of USC's School of Cinematic Arts.

Howard A. Rodman

After Hours Capitalism: On Tom Lutz’s “Born Slippy”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Careers of Evil: On the Migration of a Three-Word Phrase from Lautréamont to J. K. Rowling, with Stops at Patti Smith and the Blue Öyster Cult

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Remembering Walter Becker (1950–2017)

<h4>Dallas Clayton is the author of the bestsellers An Awesome Book! and An Awesome Book of Thanks!. He spends his days writing stories, drawing pictures, having big ideas and traveling the world sharing them with people of all ages.&nbsp;</h4>

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Dallas Clayton

<h4>Michael Tolkin lives in Los Angeles. His daughter skates for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls. He will hold that accomplishment up against anyone who writes for the London Review of Books.</h4>