Charles Webb obituary - author of The Graduate novel - and Joel Schumacher - Director of St Elmos Fire

Mike Pence invokes the Trojans - Greeks - King Priam

Washington Post, 20 Jun 2020 - page A21

TS Eliot as George F Will on President Trump and current pandemic events

The Washington Post, 20 Jun 2020, page A19

Post-Pandemic Fiction - what it will look like

Pages C1-2

Fred Willard Obituary in The Washington Post 18 May 2020

Joel Kupperman - possible Magnolia intertextual source - game show quiz kid - obituary 17 May 2020

Rebecca imitates Life

Drive-In movie theater in Virginia

I wonder if this presages some revival of the drive-in movie. I also wonder if it might create a new genre that emphasizes car-confined film watching or is optimized for that experience. Other films will be Zoom-style. There is still the problem of making the films while maintaining social distance, which is probably not going to be easy to do. -zas 4 May 2020

Americanization of Masterpiece

Colum McCann - Apeirogon

Glass Hotel

Harpers Ferry Hotel Story

Hollywood reflexivity

21 July 2021 On the name Hollywood

Adventures of a Shilling - How Human life has been bound to useless metals

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Twitter isn't real life

The Washington Post, 29 Oct 2019 A23

Cartoonist obituary

Wisdom of being Nobody

Hamilton on Trump and Trump as Storyteller extraordinaire losing entertainment value

Ronan Farrow writes book about conspiracy to hide sexual abusers

Warfare and The Washington Post

Frankenstein as sex monster

Cats on Broadway

Filmmaker hit by car - rewrites story

Ancient Glyphs in video game Heaven's Vault

Fifty years after Apollo moon hoax persists