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A review of Jan Kerouac’s Baby Driver.
West Maspeth, to be precise.
Embellished nostalgia for donations. What year is it (#601)?
How Eastern European Christmas bling took over America.
Port Richmond embodies James Kunstler’s rejection of the "tragic landscape" of American highways and more.
Life is a dance best done by the living.
Believe between 50 and 100 percent of what you read, anywhere.
Intriguing glimpses of our species’ past and future.
An all-American Thanksgiving. What year is it (#599)?
A bird’s eye view of time (it’s the same as human’s).
Fewer and fewer echoes remain of what once was the glorious Coney Island.
Not all doctors are cash-grabbing creeps. What year is it (#598)
Shaped by the negative spaces that mark our existence, the empty holes define imaginary boundaries of what we believe to be true.
Message in a bottle.
The gift shop beside sky and plain.
How soil collapse and fertilizer dependence are creating the next food emergency.
I’m making the effort today. Crossing the bridge on a Friday afternoon to attend a retirement party for Anita.
The American dream of prosperity and freedom is the oldest lie, built upon the backs of slaves.
An exploration of local customs and native practices.
A morbid sense of humor keeps the laughs coming despite the year’s forgettable wasteful tears.
Not a cognitive test, just dreams.
The author talks about his work, Ernest Hemingway, and America in this January 9, 2003 interview.
"Marry rich. And read."
The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and many more talks about his life and career in this interview aired on July 22, 1979.
The author talks to Buckley for an hour in this episode aired on February 1, 1977.
A compilation of appearances by writers on the talk show.
The actor and director talks about his new memoir The Friday Afternoon Club on CBS Sunday Morning.
The author on his retrospective anthology The Time of Our Time.
The prolific author talks to Brace Belden and Liz Franczak about grief, compounds, our horrid present, and helping other people.
The late author talks about short fiction, his disinterest in writing, and his distrust of computers.