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Cameron Crowe Shows the Power of Connection

December 11, 2025December 15, 2025 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1970s rock, Almost Famous, Avid Reader Press, Cameron Crowe, Cathy Crowe, David Bowie, Gregg Allman, Led Zeppelin, music journalism, rock memoir, Rolling Stone era, The Uncool, Thin White Duke

In his new memoir ‘The Uncool’ the filmmaker blends family grief, rock-journalism, and a lifelong faith in music.

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Unbearable Tensions: The Life, Work, and Bizarre Death of Yukio Mishima

October 18, 2025 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Confessions of a Mask, Donald Keene, Henry Scott Stokes, Japan Society New York, Japanese literature, Japanese theater, Julia Hansell Clark, Kinkakuji, Le Tambour de Soie, modern Japan, Noh adaptation, Osamu Dazai, postwar identity, The Damask Drum, The Silk Drum, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Yukio Mishima centennial

Remembering a troubled Japanese master on his centenary

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Pollack Out

June 20, 2025June 20, 2025 Neal Pollack 8 Comments

My time at Book and Film Globe has ended, and the world weeps

CREATORS FICTION Writers

The Fiction of Captain Quint

June 20, 2025June 19, 2025 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Jaws, Robert Shaw, The Sun Doctor

On the 50th anniversary of ‘Jaws,’ we look at the intriguing literary persona of Robert Shaw, one of its stars

AUTHOR STUFF CREATORS Writers

Don’t Forget About “Ray” Carver

June 4, 2025June 9, 2025 Katie Smith 0 Comments Alex Perez, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver

Writer Alex Perez pens a reading list for the Modern Literary Man

COMICS CREATORS Writers

Richard Sala’s ‘Night Drive,’ Back In Print

June 3, 2025June 8, 2025 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments Fantagraphics, Night Drive, Richard Sala

Fantagraphics revives a macabre classic of alternative comics

CREATORS Writers

Jordan Peterson: God’s Warrior Carnivore

April 24, 2025May 2, 2025 Dr. Carlos Flores 3 Comments Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, We Who Wrestle With God

He talks and talks for hours, wrestling with spiritual questions, but who are we supposed to be worshipping?

CREATORS Writers

The Brief Wondrous Cancellation of Junot Díaz

April 23, 2025May 5, 2025 Sharyn Vane 2 Comments Felicia Sonmez, Junot Díaz, Rafael Walker, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Goodman Theater

Exclusion from the Norton Anthology aside, he seems to be doing pretty well for a “canceled” writer

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Mario Vargas Llosa…Has Died

April 16, 2025April 20, 2025 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Conversation In The Cathedral, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, The Green House, The Time of the Hero

The last Titan of the Latin American literary boom has fallen

AUTHOR STUFF CREATORS FICTION Remembrance Writers

Eulogy For a Jester: The End of Tom Robbins

February 11, 2025February 17, 2025 Jamie Mason 0 Comments Even Cowigrls Get the Blues, Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins

A champion of literary playfulness, dead at 92

CREATORS NON-FICTION Writers

Ambrose Bierce, Muckraker

January 21, 2025January 27, 2025 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alexander Cockburn, Ambrose Bierce, David Schultz, S.T. Joshi

A Seattle publisher issues a new series of the iconoclast’s collected nonfiction, with all its merciless exposure of fraud and abuse

CREATORS FICTION FILM Netflix Writers

‘Carry-On’ and the Birth of the TSA Thriller

January 16, 2025January 23, 2025 Edward Schwarzschild 0 Comments Carry-on, In Security, TSA

If only publishers had realized the genre’s potential when I wrote my own TSA thriller several years ago

CREATORS Writers

Yukio Mishima and Donald Keene, Together Again

December 16, 2024May 20, 2025 Michael Washburn 3 Comments Donald Keene, Gakushuin Women's College, Henry Scott Stokes, Motonori Makino, Yukio Mishima

A new exhibit, timed just before the centennial of Mishima’s birth, shines light on the controversial author’s life and work

Writers

‘Literary Men’ Aren’t Disappearing

December 10, 2024December 19, 2024 Neal Pollack 5 Comments Andrew Tate, David J. Morris, Donald Trump, Douglas Coupland, Evelyn Waugh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Joe Rogan, Literary Men, The Handmaid's Tale

Maybe they never even existed

CREATORS FICTION Remembrance Writers

Robert Coover: An Appreciation

October 9, 2024October 14, 2024 Michael Washburn 0 Comments

He was a stylish novelist and short story writer, who drew on a rich imagination over a decades-long career in letters.

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