John Romano is a freelance writer of literary criticism, memoir, television, and film. He is the author of Dickens and Reality, his screenplays include The Lincoln Lawyer and Intolerable Cruelty, and his story "The Book of Summer" appears in the Yale Review this April. He has taught recently at USC, and formerly at Columbia.
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Radio Hour: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's 'The Nest' plus John Romano on George Eliot
Subscribe on iTunes - Listen Live on KPFK This week, our hosts talk with Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney about her bestselling novel The ...
Acting with Integrity
Ralph Fiennes has finely crafted an honest film about Dickens's sometimes callousness toward the opposite sex....

Culture War
The only way to get to real cultural diversity is to tell stories in which the diversity is real....
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