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Adam Keller
105 posts
The Long Con
Literature is full of imposters and noms de plume, from George Eliot to “Robert Galbraith” (aka JK Rowling), but JT LeRoy is something else. George Eliot never did high-end fashion…
At Heaven’s Gates
At the New Yorker, Richard Brody shares a eulogy for director Michael Cimino: Cimino’s life work is a cinema of mourning, an art of grief, a nightmare of memory that finds its sole…
Wild Water Kingdom
If anything, the private spaces of the Monterey Bay Aquarium are even more magical that the public ones. The exact same aesthetic sensibility that pervades the viewing galleries—clean, calm, scientifically…
Jazz From Hell
A lurid tale of sexual dishevelment, “Bobby Brown Goes Down” couldn’t get within a hundred miles of US radio but was, Zappa points out with some amusement, “the song to…
What Do I Know?
For the Los Angeles Review of Books, essayist Patrick Madden discusses why he was drawn to the medium and how he finds his wide-ranging subjects: In terms of art — whether sounded…
Eureka Moments
Before Tony Kushner’s Angels in America became iconic, it traveled the rocky road to the stage that every good bit of theatre knows. At Slate, Isaac Butler offers a comprehensive oral history covering every…
Stop Look and Listen
Jonas Keller (no relation) offers valuable advice on stepping back when engaging with other cultures’ art. Despite what you might assume from the headline, he sidesteps instructions on how to…
Keeping It Real
Sometimes God needs to cut the crap and level with his devotees. As we enter the final week of regular posts at The Toast, Mallory Ortberg has given us an updated…