Earlier this year, the Cannes Film Festival observed a heroic first: the director who won the Palme d’Or, the event’s highest honor, dedicated the prize to “all sex workers, past, present, and future.” No one familiar with the director, Sean Baker, could have been too surprised. Baker has spent his career—up to and including his […]
Why is it that when so many of us sit to write, we look outward for motivation? We look for a muse. Why, instead, don’t we look inside ourselves? ( Fracturing Fairy Tales to Jumpstart Your Writing .) Inside our hearts and minds are vast memories and feelings that transcend time and space, fusing themselves […]
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here . Stream of consciousness is not a literary affectation as many like to think, but the way our brains naturally work; traditionally we’re taught that narrative fiction requires breaks and quotation marks and chapters to be accessible, that dense, unbroken novels with […]
In my latest novel, The Colony Club , I begin with one character, Daisy Harriman, in 1968, just her and a young reporter as she looks back over her life. She’s old, subdued but proud of her achievements. It’s an intimate scene, only two people in the spotlight. That scene cuts to a much more […]
The 1977-78 cast of “Saturday Night Live,” which is now in its 50th season. The story of the making of the show’s first episode is the subject of the new film “Saturday Night.” “Saturday Night Live,” the late-night NBC comedy-variety show now in its 50th season, generally prefers to mine its material from other people’s […]
