David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Primal Talk
One of the thrills of being a writer is becoming aware of the wildness that percolates inside of you. If you’ve learned to listen, you’re able to hear it.
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Wires Crossed
By this point, the relationship between books and television is complicated enough to merit its own Netflix series. Or its own book. Or maybe both: Like lovers who share an…
Capitalist Fairy Tales
However unbelievable they seem, Nathan Fielder’s doomed interactions with small business owners on Nathan For You are all too painfully real. But in an economic landscape as cockamamy as today’s,…
The Pyrite Age Of Television
Prestige dramas like Breaking Bad and The Wire have set the standard for narrative TV programming on streaming services and premium cable networks, but network TV is another story. The…
Elena Ferrante Breaks into Television
Great news for everyone swept up in the recent #ferrantefever (or possibly terrible news for those who loathe book adaptations): Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series will be produced for television. The…
The X-Files Forever
[I]f there was ever a show that could wrestle with anxiety about aging and mortality in a new way, it’s The X-Files.
Old Friends
Upbeat YA protagonists are a far cry from the tortured figures we’re used to watching on television. Flavorwire’s Sarah Seltzer makes her predictions for Nancy Drew and Anne of Green…
Anomalisa, the Insanity of Capitalism, and the Power of Culture
Our insane system: does it feel too risky to bring this up in the mainstream press?
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Making a Murderer and “Bad” Families
There were “good” families and “bad” families, and even I, an outsider, was quickly apprised of which was which.
Pace Yourself
Spoilerphobes worldwide had their greatest fears realized last Saturday when George R.R. Martin announced via blog post that The Winds of Winter, the next installment in his A Song of…
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Taking Comfort in Futurama
I’m a comfort watcher... I retreat into the worlds I know well, with characters that are friends, with outcomes I already understand.