Two magazine articles I recently wrote are now out. First, Maisonneuve’s latest has my feature on ’60s experimental filmmaker Arthur Lipsett and the excellent new documentary about his life, Remembering Arthur. Lipsett’s first short for the NFB, Very Nice, Very Nice (1961) helped revolutionize avant-garde and mainstream cinema; its non-linear editing juxtaposed faces and architecture, […]

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& welcome to my virtual woodshed. I’ll be workshopping ideas & stories for my book-in-progress, Broken Atlas, with plenty of serendipitous detours into adjacent terrain. Expect curios & cracked eggs, dispatches from afar & unexpected encounters.
News item of the day: At dawn, Saddam Hussein is escorted to the gallows, which is contained in the same […]

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