The Dedication Has Gotten Too Big, What Authors Write in Books (1)
3:AM Cult Hero: Joe Gould
“It is the duty of a bohemian to make a spectacle of himself.” “One morning in the summer of 1917, I was sitting in the sun on the back steps of [Police] Headquarters recovering from a hangover. In a secondhand bookstore, I had recently come across and looked through a little book of stories by […]
Smokin’ Aces
First: Then: Now: The packaging for Stuart Evers‘ Ten Stories About Smoking, which includes the story ‘His Tattoos’, looks pretty smart. What are your favourite books inspired by la femme Nicotine?
Japanamerica: Porn & Piracy, the Summer of Manga
In the annals of manga, the print-based comics medium that is now roughly 60 years old and a primary driver of Japan’s pop culture juggernaut, the summer of 2010 has been revolutionary. The sentencing in February of American manga collector Christopher Handley to six months in prison for possession of obscene materials sent ripples of anxiety through fans of Japanese pop culture worldwide.
By Roland Kelts.
A Film Too Far
Finally Hollywood has made the definitive war epoch of our time. A film that puts into proper perspective the US role as a military superpower in the late 20th century. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Alan Smithee from a script collaboration of Joe Eszterhas, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck with historicity by Dan Brown, the film boasts a star studded cast of veteran actors who are also patriots of the highest order, all of them war heroes. In fact, everyone connected with this film is a war hero.
By Jim Chaffee.