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So, I rewatched I SOLITI IGNOTI/BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET, which I originally wrote about here. But didn’t have time to watch the second film in my planned double-feature, THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, because we’re writing, recording and...
The story of Robert Johnson and his “deal with the devil” to obtain his legendary guitar skills still peaks people’s interest – from Keith Richards to Bob Dylan to the movie Sinners as the most recent example. So when a newly discovered...
Back in 2020 I posted about the etymology of pedant; now I offer a very interesting review by Clare Bucknell (NYRB, May 14, 2026; archived) of On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S. Q. Visser. (You can see the...
"Like a lot of writers, I’m distractable. Scare quotes “Attention Deficit.” Nothing is harder sometimes than just sitting down and writing the thing I am so desperately excited to write—especially when the world gets chaotic and nasty...
Do we as a society tend to abide by the phrase, “if you love something, let it go,” or are we more likely to dig our claws in and refuse to part ways? Author Martha Conway discusses in the Big Idea for her newest novel, We Meet Apart,...
Fantastic news: we have hit our first stretch goal for ARB’s first annual fundraiser! This means: And we’ve got a week left to go! We still have signed books and other rewards available. If you’ve already contributed: thank you so much!...
I guess I'm never going to make it...
If I recall correctly, I said that I had 22 weeks of parental leave and my overriding goal was to not waste them. How can you waste parental leave? I guess I didn’t want to get to the end and not know what I’d done with my time. You know...
Notes on .local as a top level domain and why it’s a bad idea.
"You're my best friend, I'm not going to bet against you. Not with these odds." A man (Simon Pegg) gets dumped by his long-term girlfriend (Thandiwe Newton), so decides to run a marathon to try to impress her and win her back. Hank...