My first book, The Gag Man: Clyde Bruckman and the Birth of Film Comedy has been officially released. You can buy it directly from the publisher at http://thecriticalpress.com/books/the-gag-man/ or from Amazon at http://amzn.com/1941629199. Read the book Werner Herzog called "a deep insight into the vortex of laughter and death!"
My first book, The Gag Man: Clyde Bruckman and the Birth of Film Comedy now has an official release date, a final cover, and a blurb from Werner Herzog.
Coming from The Critical Press on September 15; pre-order it here: http://thecriticalpress.com/books/the-gag-man/
Hola, amigos. It's been a long time since I rapped at ya, so here are links to a lot of new work I've done for The Dissolve. First, features:
And also reviews:
I think that's everything. Enjoy!
I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be expanding an article I wrote for The Dissolve into a book for The Critical Press. Here's the original article, and here's some more information about the book. I'm looking forward to digging deeper into Bruckman's life, and I think it's going to be a really interesting book. Also: it's great and kind of unbelievable that The Dissolve let me write a story about Bruckman to begin with, except they publish bizarre, interesting, obscure and great stories all the time. I'm grateful they took a chance on this article.
All credit to Chuck Jordan for the title of this post. I've written something new for the Dissolve, about puppies. Dog trainers, movies with dogs, that kind of thing, but also there are pictures of our puppy. Here it is. (My next article will be about a tragic Hollywood failure, don't worry.)
In further non-Criterion-Contraption news, I wrote a feature for The Dissolve about the challenges of film preservation in the digital age, which is here.
I've written a piece for Slate about Charlie Brooker's show Black Mirror (I'm a fan).
