What’s in a Genre?

On November 22, 2021November 22, 2021 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Does it matter whether or not The French Dispatch is considered an anthology?

As the Terminator Promised…

On November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 By Steven StraussIn Loose ChangeLeave a comment

If you do something every day, and then you stop doing that something for a period of time, the intervening intermission can have a distancing effect that provides space to reconsider what you were doing before.

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Slipstream

On October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Becoming Cousteau being released on the same day as The French Dispatch: coincidence or marketing slipstream?

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Start the Presses

On October 26, 2021October 27, 2021 By Steven StraussIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Extra, read all about it: Write All Nite’s breaking into the breaking news game!!!

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We’re Going Clubbing

On October 20, 2021May 7, 2022 By Steven StraussIn BooksLeave a comment

A Write All Nite book club would meet to discuss the book *while* we’re reading it.

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Sun of God

On September 27, 2021May 7, 2022 By Steven StraussIn BooksLeave a comment

There’s a common refrain that, if Jesus re-graced the Earth with his presence today, instead of igniting the firestorm of controversy that greeted his first foray and that of other self-proclaimed prophets (Joan of Arc anyone? Joseph Smith? Etc.), present-day humanity would completely ignore him, too distracted by contemporary life’s endless cornucopia of nonstop bells-and-whistles to properly appreciate the Messiah in our midst.

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