Chris Barsanti's Blog, page 101
August 28, 2017
Poster of the Day: Superman vs. Racists
In 1949, DC Comics created this Superman art for textbook covers distributed to public schools by the National Social Welfare …
August 27, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Style and Forbearance, Young Scribe
The great dispenser of acid-laced bon mots Dorothy Parker, born on August 22 in 1893, had the occasional bit of …
August 20, 2017
Writer’s Desk: See the Future
There’s a lot of would-be science-fiction writers out there, but it’s a crowded market and not enough buyers. For those …
August 15, 2017
Reader’s Corner: Bannon, Trump, and the ‘Devil’s Bargain’
As the D.C. news circuit scrambles to dissect the court turmoil in the White House to see how long Steve …
August 13, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Make Friends With Other Writers
Patti Smith, remembering her friend Sam Shepard after his recent passing: We had our routine: Awake. Prepare for the day. …
August 10, 2017
Screening Room: ‘Whose Streets?’
The modern-day civil rights documentary Whose Streets? opens this week—three years after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson—in limited release. My …
August 7, 2017
Screening Room: Summer Movies, the Oscars, and ‘Wonder Woman’
My article “Wonder Woman was Fine but It Shouldn’t Win an Oscar” is now available at Eyes Wide Open: The summer …
August 6, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Take the Train
Among the books listed for the Man Booker Prize 2017 were familiar names like Arundhati Roy, George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, …
August 4, 2017
Notes: Not All Alternate Histories are Equal
Ta-Nehisi Coates explains why, in quite simple terms, any comparisons between The Man in the High Castle and the upcoming …
August 3, 2017
Screening Room: ‘The Dark Tower’
A mash-up of elements from the novels in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower fantasy series, the movie of the same name …
