How does one find their reading material of choice when the filters, meaning the old army of "experts" who once dominated the book pickers round table have been lost in the fog of the Internet?
Here is my advice to those people who apparently have the time and energy to protest their plight by blaming everybody in sight. We live in America and not everyone becomes a movie star or billionaire.
The Ides of March, a new movie directed by George Clooney, makes the democratic process seem like an adventure in hell.
So, Amazon is to become the official publisher of its own books. It was, of course, bound to happen, too tempting to resist. After all, it does repres...
I have no quarrel with folks who love and enjoy horror novels and comic books. I did when I was a teenager. But why are adults gobbling them up? Why is purveying this material increasingly profitable?
Pauline Kael, who reviewed movies for The New Yorker for many years, was considered by many to be the goddess of film critics. Her comments on movies were both insightful and controversial.
