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I. That Guy IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged that young male writers, in a shadowed corner of their dream selves, would much rather be rock stars. And not (just) for the girls, fame, and money. The thing is, if you’re a writer, you’re supposed...

Every day this week we look at the work of maybe the world’s greatest living novelist – Don DeLillo. Tom Moody begins the series with an introduction and overview of the master. Don DeLillo elicits extreme reactions in readers. His work — and thoughts...

There are three themes within the Hide-and-Go-Seek sub-genre of Adventure stories. The first and themes, which I’ve examined previously, are: Artful Dodger and Conspiracy Theory. The third, which I’ll examine in this post, is: Apophenia....

Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Dennis Harvey, and Lynn Rapoport. For rep house showtimes, see Rep Clock. Due to the Labor Day holiday, theater information was incomplete at presstime. OPENING Bachelorette See...

PROBABLY TEN YEARS AGO, I was an occasional correspondent with a guy doing a long stretch in an iso unit at Pelican Bay State Prison. He was confined to the “Security Housing Unit” on an allegation that he was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood...