‘Lost’ and ‘Dark Crystal’ Writer Javier Marxuach-Grillo on AI in Hollywood and Why TV Writers Must Be on Set
Jeff Cohen, ATX TV Festival 2023 Seven years ago, Javier Grillo-Marxuach got drunk with his fellow writer-producer Jose Molina and made a list of “made a list of all the sociopathic abusers [they’d] worked for, and a list of the good ones. One list was was significantly longer than the other.” While he didn’t specify […]
Cynthia Weil, Co-Writer of ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,’ ‘Make Your Own Kind of Music,’ ‘On Broadway’ and More, Dies at 82
Corbis via Getty Images Grammy-winning Songwriters Hall of Fame member Cynthia Weil — who co-wrote “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” “On Broadway,” “Make Your Own Kind of Music,” “On Broadway,” “Walking in the Rain,” “You’re My Soul and Inspiration,” “Uptown,” “Kicks,” “Here You Come Again,” “Through the Fire,” “Somewhere Out There” and many other hits […]
A furious, joyful memoir of working-class New Jersey and the writing life
A memoir that celebrates as much as it grieves, rages and broods, Jane Wong’s “ Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City ” charts its author’s progress from the casinos of New Jersey to the college dorms of Upstate New York, to Hong Kong and Iowa and finally Bellingham, Wash., where she now teaches creative writing […]
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
The following is from Debra Magpie Earling’s The Lost Journals of Sacajewea . Earling has received both a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She retired from the University of Montana where she was named professor emeritus in 2021. She is Bitterroot Salish. An earlier version of The Lost Journals of […]