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In Which We Drop Our Tired Glamour
Getting Away With It by VICTORIA HETHERINGTON The following is an excerpt from the novel I Have To Tell You, available for a limited time in pre-release from 0s&1s Novels. I work as a secretary...
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In Which We Saunter Jauntily Down A Red Road
Always There by ALEX CARNEVALE The Red Road creator Aaron Guzikowski Jason Momoa's sexuality is like an extruding pimple on some poor sap's face. When he bends down to retrieve something from...
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In Which Marty Hart's Daughter Was The Real Yellow King
The Greatest Throne Of All by DICK CHENEY Morning comes, and the disappointment of last night's True Detective finale has yet to wear off. I can't shake the overwhelming sensation that the Yellow King...
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In Which They Leave Out What Is Tacit
The Place That Forgets You by JOSH MILBERG Moving to New York in winter makes for bad timing but allowing this ongoing fantasy first impressions in autumn gives its staging and extras unfair...
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In Which We Are In The Breach Position
Deliver Us by KARA VANDERBIJL Call the Midwife creator Heidi Thomas The year is 1957. It will be another four years before Britain’s Family Planning Association adds the pill to its list of approved...
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In Which We Visit The Grand Budapest Schmotel
Delicious Frosting by ALEX CARNEVALE The Grand Budapest Hotel dir. Wes Anderson 100 minutes Agatha (Saoirse Ronan) is an apprentice baker at Mendl's, a famous patisserie in the greater Zubrowka area....
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In Which We Did Not Have A Chance To Ring The Bell
The Ideal by TAYLOR HINE The sky was threatening rain that day we agreed to meet for lunch. The dark underbellies of clouds that loomed over the downtown skyline, over all of us that day, shrouded the...
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In Which We Had Yet To Find The Truth In It
Without A Sound by MAUREEN O'BRIEN I met Joseph Hanna in the West Village, poking around his leather store while I waited for a dinner reservation. The place was cavernous. Big messenger bags were...
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In Which the Possibilities Are Not Exactly Endless
photo by Anna Jones Tiny Things by JOSIANE CURTIS The baby was full-term, healthy, born four days before her due date. She weighed five pounds, 14 ounces. This is very small, although not technically...
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In Which Barbara Loden Had Been With Worse
Beauty by DURGA CHEW-BOSE In a 1972 episode of The Mike Douglas Show, co-hosted by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Barbara Loden is introduced by her hosts as "a very lovely lady," as "married to a very...
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In Which We Shut Our Eyes Wide To Elia Kazan
The Friendship Mask by ALEX CARNEVALE She says the same thing, that bitch, that you do about me, that I'm an emotional cripple, by which she means that I don't release my true emotions, that it's a...
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In Which Hannibal Contemplates An Aesthetic of Murder
Consumer Society by RACHEL SYKES Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller The remarkable thing about Hannibal is that it should never have existed. Adapted from the fiction of Thomas Harris, whose novel Red...
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In Which We Prefer To Use Them In A Painting
Bodily Threat by SARAH WAMBOLD When Frank Frazetta turned down a contract to play professional baseball, artists were making more money than major league players. He lived to regret his decision,...
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In Which What Looks Organic Is Organic
This is the first in a two part series on the life of director Nicholas Ray. Too Masculine A Role by ALEX CARNEVALE Ever since I was four and she was nine I've wanted to make it with my sister Helen,...
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In Which Gwyneth Paltrow Appears Under A Sapphire Sky
Honey You Are A Rock by DICK CHENEY At first it was difficult to decide what song exactly I should choose to commemorate the all-too-sudden passing of Gwyneth Paltrow's marriage from this earth. I was...
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In Which We Were Born Like Jeff Buckley
Creative Inertia by KARA VANDERBIJL Jeff Buckley’s brief intro before launching into a cover of “Dido’s Lament” is murmured in a ghost’s timbre, barely outdoing the white noise on the recording even...
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In Which We Encounter The Vampiric Profundity of Thomas Mann
The Courtship of Katia Mann by ALEX CARNEVALE To use the words of young Nietzsche, I love and affirm in "the atmosphere of ethics, the Faustian flavour, the cross, death and the grave." In art I...
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In Which Nothing Can Ever Tell You How Bad Noah Is
God Wants You To Cease Filmmaking by DICK CHENEY Noah dir. Darren Aronofsky A billion minutes It feels like an eternity waiting for the only sex scene in Darren Aronofsky's Noah. It takes about ninety...
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In Which We Have Fond Memories Of Almost Nothing
Amplification of the Senses by ELEANOR MORROW Growing Up Fisher creator DJ Nash Is the idea of a blind person doing something with difficulty that other people do with ease somehow amusing to you? If...
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In Which We File And Catalogue And Study And Store
My Name Is A Secret by NATHAN JOLLY I was about to hurt a person I could have grown to love. It wasn't like ripping off a band-aid, and it wasn't self-preservation, and it wasn't her, it was most...
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