Black List Blackout

from Deadline Black List Suspends Studio Memberships, Lowers Scribes’ Fees In Support Of WGA Strike By Dominic Patten WGA, The Black List EXCLUSIVE: The skies are cloudy over LA and still thick over NYC today, but for over 1,000 studio and “struck companies”...

Fight For Your Rights

from The Los Angeles Times via MSN Editorial: A Hollywood mess: Writers are striking, and actors may too, over the future of the industry Opinion by The Times Editorial Board Screen Actors Guild members take part in a Writers Guild rally May 22 outside Warner Bros....

Vanishing Victor

from The New York Times Don’t Kill ‘Frankenstein’ With Real Frankensteins at Large by Maureen Dowd By the time I took off my mortarboard two weeks ago, my degree in English literature was de trop. Instead of a Master of Arts, I should have gotten a Master of...

After The End of Culture

from Real Clear Books Surviving Hyperculture By Emina Melonic Does the term “culture” even mean anything, given humanity’s turn away from particularity and toward a more fluid world of never-ending change? Philosopher Byung-Chul Han, known for his treatise-like...

Tolstoy 2023

from Real Clear Books Leo Tolstoy the Free Thinker: Yet Another ‘New’ Look at ‘War and Peace’ By John Tamny For mountain climbers, one imagines that Mt. Everest looms as the ultimate climb to validate one’s ability. For runners, it would be the...

TV Blues

from The New Yorker Why Are TV Writers So Miserable? On the cusp of a potential strike, writers explain why no one is having much fun making television anymore. By Michael Schulman For people outside the industry, the woes of TV writers can elicit a boo-hoo response....