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The New York School Diaspora (Part Sixty-Four): Joel Stein [by Angela Ball]
Through a Country You, on the one hand, see a land Green and rolling With chalky marble And stretches of yellowed sandstone Patched here and there into the hills, Coming up for air…
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What’s Your Favorite Film Noir? (with Suzanne Lummis and David Lehman]
What is the greatest noir movie? Suzanne Lummis:I think Double Indemnity of 1944 is seminal, though a couple of others before it have strong noir elements. But Double Indemnity’s got it all, a terrific script and story,…
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Jesse Nathan: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________ Scouts There was a boy even stranger than I who’d call me…
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from “The Hitchcocks” [by Peter Ferry]
“Call me Tommy,” the boy said. They didn't. They called him “Earl” or “Earl the Pearl” or “Earrrl” or Earl the Girl.” “Don't pay your brothers any mind,” his mother said peeling carrots into…
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“A Noir Christmas”: A Killer Panel on “Crime Novels of the 1960s”
"I'm Dreaming of a Noir Christmas": On Tuesday, December 5, at 6 PM , the Library of America hosts a killer lineup of panelists to explore the two-volume set, Crime Novels of the 1960s,…
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God [by Jonathan Edwards]
God holds you over the pit of hell, as one holds a loathsome insect over the fire;the last of the just rings the bell; "I tell lies," said the liar,a convict released because the…
