Guest Column: ‘The Machine’ Writer Explains the Heartbreaking Reason He’s Skipping the Premiere
Kevin Biegel, left, with his father, Peter Biegel When you tell people they’re actually gonna film the script you wrote, the first two questions are always, “Is there a premiere? Are you going to the premiere?” It’s partially out of excitement, partially out of shock that you, a writer, a goblin troll thing that sits […]
The Time I Wrote Martin Amis a Letter
It’s the kind of thing you do when you’re young. You write about your heroes, and then you actually write to them. In my case the hero was Martin Amis, a writer I read in my early 20s in a trance of admiration. This was the mid-to-late ’90s, before we had smartphones, but a paperback […]