Last week I went to the County Theater in Doylestown, PA to read...

Last week I went to the County Theater in Doylestown, PA to read from Why We Came to the City (my new novel) and talk about Whit Stillman’s great film Metropolitan, its importance, and its influence on me.

Here are my brief remarks on sincerity and irony in the film - the start of a longer piece I hope to soon finish on his original trilogy, including Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco