Isn’t it great to watch him grow into his role? I was scared for a while. Afraid of a Conan.

I’m relieved I’m not the only one to detect the whiff. Nancy Armstrong’s insightful “the modern individual was first and foremost a woman” is true (I’d highly recommend her Desire and Domestic Fiction), but I think that woman is a white woman. Speaking bluntly — which I think is necessary after the obscene disaster of…

Actually I think it’s those who fall on the ill-but-productive span of the spectrum.

— Francis said that, not Sofia. :)

Yeah, the film sucked. However, it’s beautifully shot — by one of our great and unheralded cinematographers, Lisa Rinzler, who additionally is so nice I was able to enjoy a great conversation with her when I happened to recognize her on the 1 from 116th down to Franklin. So she’s two rare things: a female DP and a…

What do you think he means by that? Manet is about as radical as you can possibly get. I’m not denying Rembrandt’s greatness - he might have been the master of oil, maybe it’s between him and Velázquez - but progressive is hardly the word one would use for him. Is it a typo - did he mean Monet? It seems like he meant…

That sounds about right - it’s never easy, but make sure you do the work you would like to be making, however you can - even a few minutes a day. Keep going, as Beckett said. Good luck!
Yrs - a fellow artist

I understand you’re trying to correct a misconception that bothers me as well, but most artists have not made money from their art and generally have lived in a lot of debt. Yes, Van Gogh “survived” - but compared to who? And to what conditions? He had a terrible life. The most important American artist, Pollock,…

Yes. Guilty until proven innocent.

Before blaming Trump for societal ills, check a mirror.

This article makes the program appear like a random hatchet job. It’s actually the latest in Frontline’s series The Choice, produced every election year. They’re about the best of their kind.

Dear Stassa,

GREAT article.

His friend Morgan Freeman feels exactly the same way about race. Funny how nobody’s jumping down his throat.

Eastwood is tuned into America’s “fraught, problematic relationship with race and gender that is nonetheless integral to its very history,” which is why (a) he wins Oscars and (b) I moved to Paris.

“Well, it’s sure better than American Sniper.”

Their incoherent, rambling catastrophizings about how the wild danger of being off the gold standard will inevitably lead to a race war has something to do with my libertarian fatigue.

PS - I was just reading some of the comments here and by all means if the chart is helpful as an incentive then that’s wonderful. I’ve just encountered a lot of very talented people who have felt very discouraged by these diagrams they keep making, and again, it can be easy to forget (literally! in both senses) that…

“Professional” writer here (i.e. I quit my day job & am internationally published) — this is a pet peeve of mine: I came into literature from a very different field (finance) and never did the MFA thing, no creative workshops, not even any English or literature classes at all until I’d signed with the agency we all…

This is.

I’m not sure why Jezebel seems to think it has to tread a thin line between much needed saucy provocative feminism and Trump-level bigotry. The upcoming sale? I don’t know.

Dear Mr Fahey

No. And it’s not really that insignificant.