You may have thought to yourself before, “Gosh, I wish I could do something useful with all this knowledge I have about …” your favorite book, TV show, movie, or pop star. You may have even been joking a little. But it turns out you really can do something with it!...
You may have thought to yourself before, “Gosh, I wish I could do something useful with all this knowledge I have about …” your favorite book, TV show, movie, or pop star. You may have even been joking a little. But it turns out you really can do something with it! For a writing career, it’s often best to have an area of expertise … and here you’ve got one of those, ready-made! That’s why I created a new Skillshare class, Turning Your Fandom Into a Writing Career. Fandom is more prevalent...
The streaming service has had the first three seasons for a while, but all seven are now available. This means streamers can finally watch classic episodes like "Chuckles Bites the Dust," "The Lars Affair" (Betty White's extraordinary debut as Sue Ann Nivens), the...
Join me and my co-host Matt Beckhoff for a night of talking Seinfeld with Richard Herd (Mr. Wilhelm), Angela Dohrmann (Donna Chang), Kenny Kramer (the real-life Kramer, of course!), and Seinfeld writer Tom Leopold, at 7 p.m. at the Triad Theatre on Sunday, Sept. 23....
Betty White is 96 years old. She got up on the Emmy stage last night and essentially did a pretty tight standup set as part of a special industry tribute to her. “It’s incredible that I’m still in this business and you are still putting up with me," she said. "It’s...
I'm proud to introduce my new podcast with cohost Kimberly Potts, Pop Literacy. We're lucky to be part of the growing Writer's Bone network, where we'll be talking to the creative people who making our favorite pop culture, and we'll give you smart nuggets to drop...
I'm cohosting a fundraiser for the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 5 at the Spreadhouse Cafe, where I'll be discussing Sex and the City in the age of #MeToo with SheKnows sex and health editor Elizabeth Yuko. We will be examining how the show holds...
I go back to Emily Nussbaum's perfect 2013 defense of Sex and the City in The New Yorker over and over again. But I particularly go back to this one part, so many times, and it's always to defend some of my favorite shows, and even other pop cultural works. Not...
Pat Williams took the job of scoring the Mary Tyler Moore Show pilot because his friend Allan Burns, who co-created the show with James L. Brooks, asked him to. It wasn't, to be sure, that he knew it would become a classic for the ages. In fact, he'd heard nothing but...
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From 5-8 p.m. on June 8, Milwaukee's Downer Avenue will celebrate Sex and the City and Us and the show's 20th anniversary with me, complete with blowout specials, drinks, cupcakes, and more. We'll end the evening with a presentation at the great Boswell Books. More...
Tom Wolfe is the reason I am here, writing a blog post on a website that also tells you about my narrative nonfiction books. Tom Wolfe taught me that there's a story behind everything, as long as you get the details and the drama and the passion and then tell it with...