Andrew Gumbel&nbsp;is an award-winning journalist and author with a long track record as an investigative reporter, political columnist, magazine writer and foreign correspondent. He contributes regularly to The Guardian, among other publications, and has written extensively on subjects ranging from politics, law enforcement and counterterrorism, to food and popular culture. His books include&nbsp;Oklahoma City: What The Investigation Missed — And Why It Still Matters&nbsp;(HarperCollins, 2012),&nbsp;Down for the Count: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America&nbsp;(The New Press, 2016), and, most recently,&nbsp;Won't Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System&nbsp;(The New Press, 2020).

Andrew Gumbel

The New Abnormal: Tentpoles, Pre-Awareness, and the Crisis in Hollywood

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

Film

Tiger Eyes

<h4>Alizah Salario is a journalist and essayist. Her work has appeared in Slate, The New York Times, The Washington Post, at the Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.</h4>

Alizah Salario

Up in the Canyons: Lawrence Blume Adapts “Tiger Eyes”

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

Fiction

Morgan Woolsey’s work focuses on issues of music and identity, and the use of music in disreputable genres of film.

Morgan Woolsey

Frankly, Mr. Franco: On "Interior. Leather Bar."

<h4>Moira Weigel is a writer, translator, and graduate student in the joint program in comparative literature and film studies at Yale.&nbsp;</h4>

Moira Weigel

Heritage Girl Crush: On “Hannah Arendt”

<h4>Jonathan Zimmerman&nbsp;is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts MFA program. He is a writer residing in Los Angeles and looks forward to marrying his ever-patient girlfriend in June.</h4>

Jonathan Zimmerman

A Three Act Journey in the Land of the Screenwriting Gurus

Greil Marcus is a critic who lives in Oakland. This year, Yale will publish More Real Life Rock: The Wilderness Years, 2014-2021 (May) and Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs (Fall).

Greil Marcus

At the Edge of the Screen: Greil Marcus Interviews David Thomson

<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

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

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

Cultural Studies

Jonathan Foltz is an assistant professor at Boston University, where he teaches modernist literature and film. His writing has appeared in Modernism/modernity, Screen, and Not Coming to a Theater Near You. He is the author of The Novel After Film, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Jonathan Foltz

In Search of Lost Plots: On Viktor Shklovsky

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

<h4>Jacob Mikanowski is a writer based in Berkeley, California. More of his work can be found <a href="http://jacob-mikanowski.com/">here</a>. </h4>

Jacob Mikanowski

American Caliban: On P.T. Anderson’s “The Master”

Masters of Cinema: Billy Wilder

<h4>Noah Isenberg is professor and chair of culture and media at The New School, as well as the director of screen studies. His latest book, Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins will be published by the University of California Press in early January 2014.  </h4>

Noah Isenberg

Tales of Buffalo Billy: Noel Simsolo's "Masters of Cinema: Billy Wilder"

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

Biography &amp; Autobiography

Life Itself

<h4>Swati Pandey is a writer based in Los Angeles.</h4>

Swati Pandey

Cinematic: Roger Ebert's "Life Itself"

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

<h4>Jonathan Penner has written for movies, television, magazines, and blogs, and has worked extensively as an actor, screenwriter, and producer. His film credits include the cult classic The Last Supper, the Hamlet-inspired Let the Devil Wear Black and the short film for which he was Oscar-nominated, Down on the Waterfront. He is co-author with Steven J. Schneider of Horror Cinema (Taschen, 2008).</h4>
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Jonathan Penner

The Horror

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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend

<h4>Merrill Markoe's book of humorous essays, Cool, Calm and Contentious is for sale on November 1st. You can find her at <a href="http://merrillmarkoe.com/" target="_blank">Merrillmarkoe.com</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/merrillmarkoe" target="_blank">on Twitter @merrillmarkoe</a>, and, yep, even on Facebook.</h4>

Merrill Markoe

Dog Poetry

Malcolm Turvey The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s MIT Press, March 2011. 213 pp.

The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s

Even as Everything Melts: Malcolm Turvey’s “The Filming of Modern Life”

Fragments

<h4>Jocelyn Heaney&nbsp;earned an MFA in Poetry from University of Massachusetts Amherst. She lives and teaches in Los Angeles and is currently at work on a memoir.</h4>

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