In Defense of a Shaggy Dog Story
One of my mother’s few extravagances after my dad died was cable TV. The Disney…
Home and Not Home
I grew up in Altadena, California, in Los Angeles County. In 1995, I graduated from…
Back to the ‘City’: Prologue
‘These novels are as difficult to put down as a dish of pistachios. The reader…
C4 and Senior Citizens: Why Greenlight THE EXPENDABLES?
I don’t normally write about films I haven’t seen. Certainly I don’t review them, because…