On Downtown to discuss America's first true auteur, with a special focus on an essay 1937's Make Way for Tomorrow, the so-called most depressing film of all-time, from Watching Back: Writing on Movies that Light Us Up.  

The real meaning of prayer. 

On the remarkable Francoise Gilot, the talented artist and writer whom Pablo Picasso treated poorly, and who is still with us at 101-years-old. 

This is an opinion piece on David Ortiz's finest moment on a baseball field which ran last August and was only now discovered to have done so. 

A conversation on Frog and Toad, The Children of Green Knowe, Bagpuss, the BBC adaptation of Edith Nesbit's The Railway Children, and the excellent Scottish series, Maggie. 

Back on Downtown for an in-depth analysis of John Lennon, guitar player. 

A conversation on Downtown about what one man drinks and the very specific reasons why. 

A discussion on Downtown pertaining to rare and/or newly discoverd live tapes from Led Zeppelin, the Who, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and Bob Dylan. 

Blues radio talk: ranging from the Delta to Stax to an open air market on Chicago's West Side, with a few opening comments about publishing.

The 1941 serial, Adventures of Captain Marvel; the 1974 made-for-TV movie, Killdozer; a TV adapation of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter; Stan Brakhage's Stellar; Jean Epstein's The Fall of the House of Usher

The Suspect, The Wild North, Laurel and Hardy's Busy Bodies, an animated version of A Study in Scarlet, Meshes of the Afternoon. 

An essay in The Smart Set on "Creep" as one of the best songs ever written. "The concerns of “Creep” — the overwhelming doubt with which this narrator contends — go back to an age before language itself. Grunting cave people could have heard this sound and recognized it as common emotional ground."

On Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey and falling in love with Golden Age mysteries. 

Talking about Chris Sale, Orson Welles and Les Miserables, a new Jimi Hendrix archival release, the first live performance of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity, and John Keats' "What the Thrush Said." 

Interviewed on the radio about the book-in-progress, Giving You Everything: A Hard Day's Night and the Artistic Zentih of the Beatles, and the 585-minute recording session from February 11, 1963, that produced the Beatles' first LP. 

Launched in June 2018, the Many Moments More blog has now reached 2000th entries, totaling 2.35 million words. 

Radio interview about Orson Welles and The Shadow, a radio adaptation of Star Wars, Billie Holiday in January 1957, a Byrds bootleg of a Swedish radio broadcast, and Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes in "The Engineer's Thumb."

On the value of greatest hits albums. 

On Downtown to discuss what makes good writing good writing, what makes bad writing bad, how publishing and the MFA systems work, and E.M. Delafield and Shirley Jackson. "There is nothing easier to do than to stop reading something. And there is nothing harder to do than to write artfully. Negotiating those two extremes is what's going to make someone a great writer, or not."

On Downtown talking about Buster Keaton, an M.R. James mockumentary, Guns N' Roses live in 1992, hockey, baseball, and the 1949 film, The Window, a precursor to Hitchcock's Rear Window. 

Interviewed about a radio adaptation of Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, a fine William Conrad performance, an early Rolling Stones' bootleg from a 1965 show, Led Zeppelin at the Boston Tea Party in January 1969, and Sam Cooke's "Good Times." 

Talking about James Stewart and Elmer Fudd, Little Eva and the Beatles, an Oasis radio session, the radio program, Night Beat, push-ups, the difference between envy and jealousy, and an adaptation of W.W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw." 

What we can learn from the Beatles as they closed out 1962 in Hamburg. 

A consideration and appreciation of the Pirates' great as the ultimate teammate. 

A feature on the Suspense episode, "The House in Cypress Canyon," which is also in And the Skin Was Gone: Essays on Works of Horror Art.