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A Year of Stories (2013): Movies
What a year for movies. Yes, I say that every year. But, truly, this art form continues to evolve to new levels. And, as always, there were so many good ones competing for time and attention that it...
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A Year of Stories (2013): Television
Television, in the US and UK at least, has been undergoing a sort of evolution and 2013 marked some watershed events, particularly with Netflix and a few other media companies upping their game with...
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Weekend Poem: El Poema de lo Reverso by Victor Hernández Cruz
This poem, with its many images and musicality, touches on several wonderful themes. It reminds us of how everything starts from the tiniest and simplest beginnings; that even the most seemingly...
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Movie Review: Renoir (2013)
All three characters get near-equal screen time and show enough depth and complexity that it would be fair to say that this story is not just about the artist. It is about the artist, his son and their...
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Conversations: Screenwriter, Graphic Novelist, Illustrator – G.E. Gallas
In 'Death Is No Bad Friend', I've focused on a very short period of R.L.S.'s life -- his time in San Francisco and his honeymoon on Mount Saint Helena. This allows me, as a writer, to explore R.L.S. as...
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Marginalia: Gender Balance in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’
Earlier this year, a friend forwarded this rather good article from Bitch magazine. It makes a lot of excellent points about the true impact of movies that glorify the "greed, amoral excess, and...
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Mavis Gallant (RIP): Author, Storyteller, Trailblazer
Author, Mavis Gallant, passed away at age 91 yesterday. Born in Canada, she decided, very early on, that she wanted to do two things: live in Paris and earn a living from writing. She managed both of...
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Mary of Pottersville (short fiction)
A taxi backfires somewhere on Main Street. And, from its tailpipe, blue smoke drifts into a white ring, and dogs skitter for a quarter mile. The sharp retort causes Mary of Pottersville to pause with...
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Movie Review: Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
There's a scene in Andreas Johnsen's new documentary film, 'Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case', in which the camera faces a brick wall in Weiwei's courtyard. On the wall, the word "F-U-C-K" hangs in big, neon...
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Book Review: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
From the very start, this story just sings off the pages. Although book-ended with memories of Eugenio Castillo, first as a young boy and then as a grown man, this is the story of his uncle and his...
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