What is the difference between Picasso's stare and the stare of half a dozen serial killers? Dude gives me the creeps.
This week on What's The Story, I interviewed Kim Cross on her bookm In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child. Listen to our conversation here:
"Every book, no matter its preoccupations or themes, could be said to reflect a greater entity: the corporation." How Has Big Publishing Changed American Fiction?
A new book argues that corporate publishing has transformed what it means to be an author.
All the best people were weird kids.
It's so weird how pens all die at the same time.
Interesting: The Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights of the 2023-24 Season www.americantheatre.org/2023/10/18/t...
Also Carol Burnett
Just thinking about all those Suzanne Somers autobiographies I read in the high school library instead of doing whatever project we were there to do.
I'm thrilled to share my first piece for The New Yorker. It's about the Beat poet Lenore Kandel, whose erotic poetry collection, The Love Book, led to San Francisco's last and longest obscenity trial. Read more about this story of censorship here:
Amid Reagan’s late-sixties crackdown on the California counterculture, a jury was tasked with deciding whether Lenore Kandel’s psychedelic sex poems had “redeeming social importance.”
Yesterday we went to the beach and the sea was full of whales! There must have been hundreds of them out there. We sat there for hours watching one after another float by. It was a whale parade.