I’m in Palo Alto for the week working on The Nightingale with Steven. In a strange and fortuitous coincidence, Martin Amis gave a reading and Q and A last night just down the road from where I?m staying. His new book, House of Meetings is extraordinary in that it takes subject matter of […]

Do yourselves a favor and listen to her new record “YS”. Gorgeous, unique and an antidote to all the pointlessness of american tabloid culture and the hackneyed music that goes along with all of that.
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Go see this movie. I think Alfonso Cuaron is kind of a genius. I don’t want to go into great detail about the film but he has the great courage to suggest an idea that few people seem to acknowlege. Namely that, the way our modern world is heading, there is very little […]