Archive for June, 2009
Cliff’s 10 Best Movies of All Time
There are many, many films I admire for their acting, cinematography, writing, direction, etc., but the ten below — presented in no particular order — are the ones I find most memorable. I love them for many reasons, but as I looked over the list, I realized that each one is a powerful evocation of something: MATEWAN. [...]
Notes on Mailer
I’m not sure I can fully explain my fascination with the work of Norman Mailer, which may be part of why the fascination endures. It’s tempting to say that the stories surrounding Mailer the man — the tales of fistfights, wild parties, domestic chaos, the quixotic run for mayor of New York — become linked in one’s [...]
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
A few years back I wrote a piece for The Threepenny Review about Colson Whitehead ‘s oeuvre, which then consisted of two novels, The Intuitionist and John Henry Days. The gist of the essay was that Whitehead is a dazzling writer with a gift for analyzing events and phenomena, taking them apart like a mechanic [...]
