Last week I spent a good amount of minutes writing this when I could’ve been doing something productive. One of my (now-ex and blocked) Facebook “friends” — who apparently never read my stuff — wanted to chat me up on private messenger. I wrote this get-acquainted note to him; he…

A POET FROM HOLLYWOOD: LOVE, INSANITY, STEPHEN GYLLENHAAL, AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS a nightmare of hollywood celebrity Chapter 1. “So, This Isn’t Some Kind of Joke” [IN WHICH I MAKE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE WORST EPISODE OF TWIN PEAKS] Chapter 2. “My Family’s Behind Me 100 Percent” [IN WHICH THE ARYAN GOOD LOOKS OF THE GYLLENHAALS ALMOST TOPPLES MY…

The screen world of the 30s was a golden time for men’s full formal wear — and the erotic sphere gained by it Full dress, aka white-tie: an ensemble that includes tails, wing-collared shirt, hand-tied white bow tie usually in a cotton pique or fine grosgrain, and corresponding white waistcoat…

On the streets of Paris I sold the coolest American newspaper ever published in Europe [EXCLUSIVE TO MEDIUM] Like Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, I spent some time in my early 20s sauntering up and down the Champs-Élysées in a sexy logo T-shirt hawking an English-language publication. Not the…

What is the connection between David Lynch and Billy Wilder? Goddammit, I’ve posed this question to all my Twin Peaks groups on Facebook, and nobody got it. Now I’m going to give it to you. “The Emperor Waltz”: the music and the film. Assistant Deputy Director Gordon Cole of the…

When I was 19 I read all of Jean Rhys’s novels, including this one. Whyd’you think Charlotte Brontë mutilated and blinded that racist…

I'm linking to this very useful article on my FB. "#sagaftra I just got a new subscriber on Medium, an LA agent with lots of practical advice for struggling actors in Hollywood in general and DURING THE STRIKE in particular. Zach's not a Medium member, which means you can read all of his valuable articles in their entirety, for free, without having to join. Very recommended." https://www.facebook.com/cantara.christopher/posts/pfbid02hdHVrRA9KCcacg6SYYkY9Y61XZDF2PbPCs7pCYQMx7NJjxb2JBcAiSqfjvcywcyol

Lance, your link to your books at Etsy doesn't seem to be working.

You write about films better than 90% of the guys (and they do tend to be guys—white guys) on social media; your writing's as good as anything in The New Yorker or Harper's. Following you, downloaded one of your novels.