There is a fifth dimensionI'm delighted to once again be part of a Josh Glenn “Enthusiasm” series, a creative cattle call for the culturally cockeyed. TUBE YOUR...
True CrimeAt Critics at Large: my review of The Leopold and Loeb Files, concerning a crime that after nearly a century will not let us go.
The Secret ProfessionMy appreciation of Panic, an underappreciated, little-seen movie about the psychological crisis of a hit man.
CrossfireAt Critics at Large: my review of Michelle Dean's Sharp, concerning ten woman writers "who made an art of having an opinion."
Wally and the BeaverI've done a handful of public readings in my life, and while none has been completely unpleasurable, probably the best so far occurred...
He tried to do his bestMy review of Neil Young’s ROXY: Tonight’s the Night Live, capturing the moment when he really got into the ditch.
Things about to happenAt Critics at Large: remembering a modest but flawless little crime drama that has never left my memory.
American buffaloAt Critics at Large: My piece on the bilious, brilliant books of the Brown Buffalo, Oscar Zeta Acosta.
Rabbit holeAt HiLobrow: My contribution to a year-long series in which 52 writers wax on one of their favorite albums of the Nineties. (N.B. This...
Coming from CambridgeportAt Critics at Large: my review of Ryan H. Walsh’s Astral Weeks, concerning Van Morrison, the Lyman cult, and everything weird and...
