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View ArticleTen French Films for a Revised Canon
Charles Drazin is a lecturer on cinema at Queen Mary, University of London. His previous books include The Finest Years: British Cinema of the 1940s and In Search of The...
View ArticleTupelo Hassman: Book Tour as Documentary
Tupelo Hassman graduated from Columbia’s MFA program. Her writing has been published in Paper Street Press, The Portland Review Literary Journal, Tantalum, We Still Like, ZYZZYVA, and by...
View ArticleHow to Publish a Movie Tie-In Edition in Five Easy Steps
(Steps In Reverse Order) by Matthew Quick Step 5 – You are going to need a lot of people to purchase your novel—and I do mean a lot! Like, more...
View ArticleThe Problem with Aesthetic Violence
On Disney, David Lynch, and Django Unchained by Eric G. Wilson In the weeks after the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained—which depicts a freed American slave...
View ArticleGirls and Dead Poets
by Dennis Mahoney It’s 1990 and I’m a loser. Becoming a novelist hasn’t crossed my mind. I’m a high-school junior who’s shown some aptitude in art, and by aptitude I...
View ArticleBrian McGreevy & Sean McDonald
Authors and Editors in Conversation Sean McDonald: How surreal has it been to watch your debut novel, Hemlock Grove, become a TV series? How closely does it track what you...
View ArticleInsignificant Bullets, Evil Poachers, and L.A. Culture
Winston Churchill said that being shot at unsuccessfully is an exhilarating moment in a man’s life. I was at the top of the Hollywood Hills near my home, recording an interview, when I heard a loud...
View ArticleBank Heists in a Porous World
In The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, a 1960 film directed by John Guillermin, we meet an American bank criminal named Charles Norgate. The character first appears in the imposing lobby of the...
View ArticleEvery Movie Is a Date Movie
My first kiss was a wash. I must have been four years old, because my sister was a baby. My best friend Alexander and I took advantage of the distraction she was causing to sneak away from the movie...
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