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After viewing Rebecca Millers recent feature length doc titled, Arthur Miller: Writer,  I searched for something related online and found the following:   an article by Norman Mailer from 1973 in which he describes Monroe’s short marriage to the famous New York Yankee baseball player, Joe Dimagio…..       MarriedContinue Reading

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Zoe Beloff has made a short film titled, Model Family in a Model Home, which illustrates Berthold Brecht’s research notes for a proposed Hollywood film that highlighted the theatrical nature of the roles played by middle class American families as portrayed in Life Magazine.  Brecht lived in LA from 1941Continue Reading

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It’s as if Mr. Mills were riffling through an encyclopedia, searching for the perfect entry, which he’s creating before your eyes — Manohla Dargis, NYTContinue Reading

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this article out of the UK highlights the growing industry of privatized military and political propaganda  ‘Britain has lost most of its geographical empire. And most of our modern politics is about the ways  in which different groups struggle to come to terms with that fact. For a large portion of theContinue Reading

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this is a good article describing the tense scenes of corporate culture at FB. It outlines the desperate search for whistle blowers and muscular efforts to keep a lid firmly clamped down on inner communication and policy. There is a lot at stake here obviously for the employer but theContinue Reading

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A thought provoking essay on the current dust-up in CanLit circles around the abuse of power at the gateway…. Why They Hate Margaret Atwood   ….and an article that applies to the subject of desire and CanLit….. Does anyone have the right to sex? — Amia Srinivasan Fred: March 26.18.Continue Reading

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Jess on Hillbilly Elegy I thought I’d indulge myself by starting a new thread.  I’ve been reading J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and I couldn’t resist but share a few pages.  It’s an interesting moment in a fairly graphic narrative memoir of his white-trash upbringing where he attempts a more objective look at and theContinue Reading