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Remembrance

Friedkin
FILM Remembrance 

We Lost a Lot More Than William Friedkin Yesterday

August 8, 2023August 12, 2023 Ben Schwartz 1 Comment Dirty Harry, Fritz Lang, Gene Hackman, Linda Blair, Sorcerer, Star Wars, The Exorcist, The French Connection, William Friedkin

A way of making movies, and thinking about movies, is vanishing

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publishing
FICTION NON-FICTION Remembrance 

Elegy for the Publishing Industry

July 25, 2023August 1, 2023 Rebecca Kurson 2 Comments Cormac McCarthy, Hachette, HarperCollins, Joyce Carol Oates, Knopf, Penguin Random House, Publishing, Tom Wolfe

Recent wave of editorial layoffs reminds us that the book world we loved is gone

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Kundera
Remembrance 

Milan Kundera, RIP

July 13, 2023July 17, 2023 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Milan Kundera

The world has lost a brilliant satirist and a champion of intellectual freedom

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arkin
CREATORS FILM Remembrance 

The Best of Alan Arkin

July 3, 2023July 3, 2023 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine, So I Married an Axe Murderer, The In-Laws, The Russians are Coming, Wait Until Dark

Clips from the long and excellent career of one of our best character actors, who passed away last week

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McCarthy
CREATORS Remembrance Writers 

Cormac McCarthy Is Dead

June 13, 2023June 20, 2023 Christopher Farnsworth 0 Comments All The Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men, Stella Maris, Suttree, The Passenger, The Road

A poet of violence and horror goes peacefully into the sunset

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CREATORS Remembrance Writers 

Considering Martin Amis

May 22, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Christopher Hitchens, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Sebastian Junger

Revisiting the literary legacy of a gadfly and provocateur

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Oe
CREATORS Remembrance Writers 

Oe Warned Us

March 29, 2023April 4, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Hiroshima Notes, Japan, Kenzaburo Oe, Paul Johnson, The Crazy Irish

Japan’s second Nobel laureate, who died earlier this month, would not let his nation forget the dehumanization of war

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John Jakes
CREATORS FICTION Remembrance Writers 

Memories of Reading John Jakes

March 20, 2023 Neal Pollack 4 Comments James Michener, John Jakes, North and South, The Bastard, Tom Bosley

The works of the pop-history writer, who died last week at age 90, were my first foray into “grownup” fiction

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Bacharach
CREATORS Remembrance 

Burt Bacharach Changed Music in Movies Forever

February 13, 2023February 15, 2023 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments Arthur, B.J. Thomas, Burt Bacharach, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, What's New Pussycat

The man who created the soundtrack for a generation passed away last week

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Paul Johnson
NON-FICTION Remembrance Writers 

The World of Paul Johnson

February 1, 2023February 6, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Paul Johnson, The Birth of the Modern

The late historian didn’t have a lot of friends on the left, but his popular histories help explain the present day

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Charles Simic
CREATORS Poetry Remembrance Writers 

Charles Simic, Among The Stars

January 11, 2023January 16, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Charles Simic

A tribute to the poet laureate, who has died at age 84

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CREATORS Remembrance Writers 

Russell Banks, RIP

January 9, 2023January 12, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Affliction, Continental Drift, Pulp Fiction, Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter

The U.S. has lost its leading storyteller of blue-collar despair

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Enzensberger
CREATORS Remembrance Writers 

Why Enzensberger Matters

January 3, 2023January 4, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Germany’s greatest postwar intellectual rejected labels and opposed tyranny in all forms

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Peter Straub
CREATORS Remembrance Writers 

Peter Straub, Literary Giant, Passes Away at 79

September 7, 2022September 13, 2022 Philip Fracassi 1 Comment Clive Barker, Dan Chaon, Emma Straub, Ghost Story, Joe Lansdale, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, Stephen King, The Talisman

Writers mourn novelist, whose output went beyond the horror genre

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Neal Adams
adblock CREATORS Remembrance 

Neal Adams Remembered

May 2, 2022May 5, 2022 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Archie Comics, Batman, DC Comics, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Neal Adams, Young Avengers

Legendary comics artist passed away last week at age 80

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Winning Time
Featured Stories TELEVISION 

Why ‘Winning Time’ Lost

September 20, 2023September 22, 2023 Paul Shirley 0

From personal experience, it’s hard to make a TV show about basketball

One Piece
Featured Stories TELEVISION 

The Secret Formula of ‘One Piece’

September 19, 2023September 20, 2023 William Schwartz 0
Toronto
Featured Stories FILM 

The Big Winners of Toronto

September 19, 2023September 20, 2023 Stephen Garrett 0
Wenner
Audiobooks Featured Stories MUSIC 

The Cancellation of Jann Wenner

September 17, 2023September 19, 2023 Ken Kurson 7

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