On a posthumous novel by the great writer (and overwriter) from North Carolina.
Rufus F.
Rufus is a likeable curmudgeon. He has a PhD in History, sang for a decade in a punk band, and recently moved to NYC after nearly two decades in Canada. He wrote the book "The Paris Bureau" from Dio Press (2021).
A brief post about an eight-hour story.
While consuming all of this fiction, I’d like to sketch a few brief notes, particularly about story...
On a recent book written for those who might wonder.
On Daniel Swift's journey into Saint Elizabeth's mental hospital with Ezra Pound.
On Rebecca Solnit's 2013 collection of interwoven, digressive, personal essays about the stories we tell to make...
A few brief notes on a Dada memoir from a founder and Bi Gan's stunning 2015 film...
On Greil Marcus's "Secret History of the Twentieth Century".
About an extremely readable day book for 1922, a year in which culture changed absolutely.
I read a biography of the great Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini that gets into the weeds...
On a great contemporary artist, a Bergman classic, and the cruelty and care of depicting others.
A once-notorious Enlightenment satire and 1950s crime films agree on one point: we should stop flattering...
He was considered a lion of European art house cinema. I consider Antonioni to be one of...
Reading a novel set in my current city three decades ago made me wonder how important setting...
Anybody want to read a manuscript-in-progress? Wait! Don't run away just yet!
Yesterday, I talked up the films of the recently departed Agnès Varda. Today, the Criterion Channel went...
You meet a lot of artists wandering down city streets. Not everyday do you meet one like...
Jordan Peele's recent "Us" reminds me that all great horror movies work by a sort of irrational...
On the most recent tour of Haruki Murakami's imagination and an exploration of artistic creation itself.
It's pretty hard to think of two movies as different from one another as Wanda and The...
