For all that Lone Ranger was a mess in some ways, it was also well-structured in other ways. Jonah Hex is just flat-out a mess, the kind o...

I have no big theories or thoughts here. Only a recollection: In 1984, my parents bought a Mac. This was the very first model, Macintosh 1...

Bernard Malamud, " The First Seven Years " (1950) from Bernard Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1940s & 50s : It seems to ...

Have you been watching Agents of SHIELD ? No, of course you haven't--the only people I hear talking about the show make it clear that th...

And I do mean "little." As part of NaNoWrimo in November, I blew off some steam/pressure over projects that I cared a lot about by...

The other day I started wondering about noir--usually dark, urban, claustrophobic, paranoid/uncertain--and westerns--usually bright, rural, ...

The To Do List is a 2013 sex comedy with a twist: the main character isn't a horn-dog dude, but a virginal girl who takes to sex like sh...

Alice Lake, " Last Summer in Mississippi " (1964) from Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941–1973 : Alice Lake's ...

You've seen the 1988 Dangerous Liaisons , with John Malkovich as the rake Valmont, Glenn Close as the schemer Merteuil, Uma Thurman and ...

Here's a question where I can sort of point to some answers and then just have to shrug. Ultimately, I think I prefer the Forgotten Real...

Recently I read (listened to) Mur Lafferty's The Shambling Guide to New York City and then I reviewed it on Goodreads, as usual. Then, s...

Sarah Orne Jewett, " A Winter Courtship " (1889) from Sarah Orne Jewett: Novels & Stories : At some point, you just have to ...

I'm in season five of Gilmore Girls --so no spoilers please! But I've noticed something about the sort of hybrid structure of the ep...