
This Substack's primary raison d'etre is the serial publication of my novel FRANKENRIDE, with one-off unrelated posts tackling current politics, (mostly) vintage pop culture, and whatever else gets me going that week.
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As is my wont in my senescence, this is a list of favorites, nothing else. Those tempted by the “but what about —” trap can rest easy; I promise I considered their alternative picks for, often, up to five seconds. Listed in order of favorit...
REAGAN
Death of A Salesman
Ronald Reagan, 1913-2004
(from the Village Voice, June 7, 2004, much expanded and revised)
The opening line of this obituary drew some outrage, particularly after Village Voice Media – the heaping bucke...
So I’m reading Alex Beam’s The Feud (Pantheon, 2016) about Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson’s friendship-ending and very public spat over VN’s translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, because why not? My idea of escapism may not be most pe...
Q: Which culturally obsessed American should Trump remind us of most? A: Mark David Chapman.
“Those were the days, my friend – we thought they’d never end.” When 17-year-old Paul McCartney protégé Mary Hopkin had a hit with that chestnut i...
Another excerpt from the Introduction to TFDDT And Other Stories. The endgame of my freelance career, from GQ’s kiss-off to the nadir: the Playboy website, not long before Hef’s empire’s doom.
Bell Boy
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Longtime pop-culture critic and political writer for The Village Voice, Esquire, etc. Also a novelist (Twisted Kicks, Gilligan's Wake, Daisy Buchanan's Daughter).
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