Five for the Weekend

I spy a plot development in Margo's Got Money Troubles.

A brief weekly round-up of some good things this week.

Some (spot-on) thoughts about the fancy-bathhouse trend.

The Angelika Film Center was named after an actual woman named Angelika Saleh. Unfortunately she just passed, but this story about her is fascinating.

I'm a big Rufi Thorpe fan and am really enjoying her 2016 novel To Fang, With Love. (Also, the trailer for the Apple TV adaptation of Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles looks fantastic.)

Robert Mapplethorpe at Gladstone!

Harrison Ford on Fresh Air!

About the Lena Dunham-Adjacent Think Piece

If you didn't know that Lena Dunham just published a new memoir (her second), then you probably weren't reading the New York Times last week. In the space of approximately 24 hours, the Grey Lady churned out a review, a David Marchese interview*, a think piece,

About the Thrill of a Bad Criterion Movie

When I finally gave in and bought a Criterion Channel subscription a couple of years ago, I readied myself for a steady diet of what a friend once referred to as broccoli movies, meaning movies that are good for you. Obscure European art house cinema, Golden Age Hollywood gems, the

About Crying Over Astronauts

When I was younger, I prided myself at not being a cryer. I didn't cry at movies, didn't cry over songs or commercials, except that one Sarah McLachlan did for the ASPCA. Crying in front of other people felt like an indignity, an unwelcome confession of

About Letting It All Hang Out

This Monday, my editor sent out the first blurb requests for my novel Small Kingdoms, which is scheduled to be published next June. I was cc'd on the requests, and their appearance in my inbox invoked equal parts excitement and anxiety. Because to me, this marked the moment

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About the Lena Dunham-Adjacent Think Piece

About the Thrill of a Bad Criterion Movie

About Crying Over Astronauts

About Letting It All Hang Out