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Poor, obscure, plain, and little. Writer, critic, comms & events at The Sidney Poitier New American Film School. Former books editor with too many bylines at USA TODAY and The Arizona Republic.
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When I started as books editor at USA TODAY, I had to commission a certain number of reviews a month. I had a healthy freelance budget and a whole roster of novelists and writers I could commission for literary criticism.
Four years later, I had no freelance budget and had to fight for every review
Anyone else feel like they’re one minor inconvenience away from having a full nervous breakdown?
Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000
Billy Wilder is one of the best to ever do it, and The Apartment is a miracle of sparkling, nimble script work. It as at once so heavy and so effervescent. Dark without being cynical, romantic without being sentimental. I'm in awe of it every watch.
This is making me feel a whole new kind of isolation and despair.
