Category Archives: TV and Movies

Novelists and cable television

Posted on 19 December 2011 by

[The New York Times] In Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, I’ve got an essay about how more and more novelists are selling the rights to their work to cable networks — and in many cases, even helping adapt that work, … Continue reading →

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Mark Twain’s Many Mansions

Posted on 23 April 2010 by

[New York Press] In this week’s New York Press, I’ve got a story about Mark Twain’s long-forgotten residence in Greenwich Village—and the 1954 crusade to save it. I first discovered this while doing some research (on one of these) for grad … Continue reading →

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Speaking in Dialects

Posted on 6 November 2009 by

[x-posted at The Rumpus] Tim Monich has five times as many IMDB credits as Jason Schwartzman, but we know for whom Brooklyn tolls. This week’s New Yorker profile of Monich won’t change that, of course, but it does offer a riveting … Continue reading →

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John Cusack and DFW

Posted on 13 October 2009 by

[x-posted at The Rumpus] On Friday night, and in preparation for Where the Wild Things Are, I rewatched Spike Jonze’s first feature, Being John Malkovich. What struck me was not the film’s final childlike shots or how its puppet shows anticipate both Christopher … Continue reading →

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Scenes from a Life

Posted on 2 July 2009 by

Today, Michael Mann’s Public Enemies opens nationwide, and I’ve got a couple of new stories tying into it. First, there’s this Cincinnati CityBeat cover story on “the Dillinger legend”—and by that, I mean not only the historical person, but also … Continue reading →

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