All the world is staged

A different man, a richer man

Bowie sells his plastic soul

The Passion of Ziggy

Midcentury Postmodern

He hated middlebrow and appreciated madness.

Highbrow and lowbrow culture are amazing sources of joy and insight and wisdom.

“Lose interest in yourself; gain interest in everyone else.”

Fetishizing the library without passing on the whuffie.

Showing you the money

Black mirrors and jellyfish screens

Trimming literary affectations

In the memory-lagoons, a flatfish stirred…

I’m not so much killing my darlings as massacring them

Weird stuff happens to writers all the time

Ghostly advocates persist in the author

A scene from A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959)

Ray Raphael on America’s founding myths.

Mark Taylor on money and markets

Howard Zinn on US history

Patrick W. Carey on Orestes Brownson