There’s a movie coming up on HBO, this weekend. MY DINNER WITH HERVE. It’s a biopic, covering I don’t know how long a period in the unhappy life of actor Herve Villechaize. Peter Dinklage plays Villechaize. And, spectacularly unfair as it might be to say, the casting is not perfect. First, Peter Dinklage is a […]
Because writing is a spectacularly uncinematic occupation, almost all films about writers rely on tricks more congenial to celluloid: to wit, the writer has an adventure, the writer magically produces a book and is instantly famous with complications, the real-life famous writer experiences a spectacular event that prefigures his classic perfectly and establishes that he […]
(originally published on Facebook, 8 November 2014, in response to a troll). There is a phenomenon I wish to speak about, called Napoleon’s Last Gasp. This is what we derive from the knowledge that the atmosphere of our planet is so completely churned within a single generation that of all the millions of air molecules […]