Speaking of Charles Bronson movies, and stuff: In November of last year, Soft Skull Press initiated a series called "Deep Focus," a series of sort-of monographs precisely not in the…
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It may not surprise you to learn that there's too much "stuff" in the apartment My Lovely Wife and I share. Back when I was a bachelor I didn't much…
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There was a rather lengthy period when I considered Christopher Hitchens a reliably engaging and often hilarious writer, and thought he had good taste in friends and associates—Amis pere and…
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I should of course begin by admitting that I approached the very existence of this book with an irritation that some might intuit, or even insist, was born of resentment.…
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Toby Talbot, wife of New York film and New Yorker Film legend Dan Talbot (seen above with an appreciator), has written a really wonderful, entertaining book about The New Yorker…
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Reading Peter Biskind's Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America was, for me, a largely enervating experience. Yes, I know; the book is reputed to be a feast of dish, full…
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