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Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) 20 Aug 2013 | 10:35 pm
A master departs. It isn’t that he merely took a blowtorch to all the affectations and pretenses of genre fiction. No, he made the lines between genre and literary fiction ridiculous and arbitrary ...
Liner notes essay – Steve Earle’s new boxed set 14 Aug 2013 | 04:27 am
I had the distinct honor of being asked to write an essay for the recent release of Steve Earle’s extraordinary post-1995 songbook, when he came roaring back from addiction and a brief incarceration t...
Betrayal, thy name is Bourdain. 26 Jul 2013 | 04:09 am
Okay, I owe Tony Bourdain a good bit of karmatic equity. The banter in those Treme kitchen scenes didn’t exactly write itself, after all. So I am pretty much trying to say yes to my boy when he calls...
The Koch brothers and The Baltimore Sun 26 Jul 2013 | 02:45 am
Some nice folk hoping to help craft a better future for my alma mater, The Baltimore Sun, stopped by the office a few weeks ago and asked me some questions about what I thought about the Koch brothers...
Doubling down 17 Jul 2013 | 08:44 pm
Among many, many others of similar passion: pat stevens ?@stevepatg39m david simon, I hope a black guy punches you right in the fucking face just for being white.. Michael Bailey ?@mikelbtko1h David ...
Commentary on Martin-Zimmerman. To reiterate: 17 Jul 2013 | 08:40 am
If you go to the original post on the verdict itself, entitled “Trayvon,” you will find more than five hundred posts in which all of the issues regarding the case were debated to the point of repetiti...
More proof that twitter sucks. 16 Jul 2013 | 08:58 pm
Willful stupidity or rank intellectual dishonesty? With these two fellows and their output, there is really no third choice that can be legitimately considered: John Podhoretz ?@jpodhore...
Trayvon: Calling it 16 Jul 2013 | 08:38 am
Went to dinner last night and I’d managed to winnow the comments down to a dozen or so. Came back and we were back in the hundreds. Moreover, I read through all of them and, without exception, they ...
Trayvon 14 Jul 2013 | 08:12 am
You can stand your ground if you’re white, and you can use a gun to do it. But if you stand your ground with your fists and you’re black, you’re dead. In the state of Florida, the season on African-Am...
The banality of ideology 9 Jul 2013 | 09:19 am
There’s a fine essay up on the New York Times website reflecting on Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem” and the new film about that seminal moment in our understanding of the human capacity for ev...
