Contact: Website
Dustin Downing on KCRW
More from KCRW
The beguiling charms of "Our Friend"
HollywoodFlawlessly acted by Dakota Johnson, Casey Affleck and Jason Segel, and beautifully directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, this movie about friendship and cancer--in that order--is funny…
Aaron Sorkin: ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
HollywoodWriter-director Aaron Sorkin on writing up to the edge of melodrama.
Bryan Fogel and Tom Ortenberg on ‘The Dissident’
HollywoodBryan Fogel won Netflix its first feature documentary Oscar with his Russian doping exposé “Icarus.”
Poppies and skulls commingle in fantastical airbrushed paintings
ArtsThis week’s picks include an artist who creates playful and graphic airbrushed paintings with darker undertones; women who are depicted pumping breast milk while listing their fears;…
George C. Wolfe: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
HollywoodGeorge C. Wolfe on power dynamics in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
Eileen Myles: “For Now (Why I Write)”
BooksThose who read to write will want to hear Eileen Myles talk about “For Now,” which is part of the "Why I Write" series from Yale University Press.
2020 mega banter, ranking the streamers
HollywoodThe pandemic pummeled production. WarnerMedia started a war with its windows-shattering sneak attack. And Quibi, we hardly knew you.
Alan Felsenthal and Peter Cole discuss Harold Bloom’s “Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death”
BooksVenerated critic Harold Bloom’s final book “Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death” is discussed by the poets Alan Felsenthal and…
Garth Greenwell: Cleanness
BooksGarth Greenwell discusses seeking human truths by writing into an abyss, and his new novel Cleanness .