Every once in a while, some­thing espe­cially cool hap­pens. Like this — two-book deal with Dzanc, for Flush­boy (2013) and Not for Noth­ing (2014). Which, a quick sort-of break­down: –Flush­boy’s what I wrote when my wife said I never write any love sto­ries. It’s this kid, pretty much inden­tured into work­ing the drive-through win­dow at […]

Most direc­tors can do one thing just really, really well. David Lynch, say, he can fol­low a tele­phone cord up and up such that you get all caught up in the lan­guorous spi­ral, and that becomes not just the whole room, but the whole story. Wes Craven, he can rig a chase through a tight […]

M. Night Shya­malan had his work cut out with The Last Air­ben­der. Not only did he have to run with a dif­fer­ent title than the orig­i­nal Nick­elodeon series—thanks, James Cameron—but he also had to some­how con­dense sixty-one episodes (1342 min­utes) into some­thing fea­ture length. Or, the trail­ers didn’t tell us oth­er­wise, any­way, but let me […]

Or, “What I did with my yes­ter­day,” yeah. Book: PARKER: THE HUNTER. Pretty fun; very straight­for­ward, and cool art. Though, the night before I was up until two or three in the morn­ing, unable to look away from the sec­ond vol­ume of SCALPED, “Casino Boo­gie.” I’ve always thought that SANDMAN or Y THE LAST MAN were […]