<h5>Michael Peck was born and raised in upstate New York. His fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in The Believer, Juked, Eclectica, Crime Factory and others. He is a sometime book critic for the Missoula Independent, and now lives in Montana. The Last Orchard in America, his first novel, is currently being serialized at The 2nd Hand.</h5>

Michael Peck

A Bright, Guilty World: The Biography of a Film

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

Noir

Digging Up the Winter: A Collage about the Making of a Film

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Michael Peck was born and raised in upstate New York. His fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in The Believer, Juked, Eclectica, Crime Factory and others. He is a sometime book critic for the Missoula Independent, and now lives in Montana. The Last Orchard in America, his first novel, is currently being serialized at The 2nd Hand.