A profile of the painter.

“I’ve got these boxes of ideas and I’m starting to go through them to see if there’s any gold. “

Netflix has hired everyone and they already know what you’re going to like.

Why was Christopher Priest nearly written out of comics history?

“We’re living in the age of assholes now.”

The slacker auteur reinvents himself.

Young-adult books are being targeted in intense social-media callouts, draggings, and pile-ons — sometimes before anybody’s even read them.

Decades after giving up the dream for good, an art critic returns to the work he’d devoted his life to, then abandoned — but never really forgot.

“Do you think you’re talking to a normal person here?”

“I made a pact with myself when I was 15 that if I was going to live this life, I'm only going to do it on my terms, and I'm only going to do it if I'm putting my middle finger up at society the whole time. So any time I've had yearnings to go, "Aw, gee, I wish I could be invited to the Emmys," I say, Ru, Ru, remember the pact you made. You never wanted to be a part of that bullshit. In fact, I'd rather have an enema than have an Emmy.”

How Michael Lewis’s The Big Short became a Hollywood comedy.

Looking back on the making of Sam, Bill, and Neal.

By the 1990s, the timeline of most superhero comics dipped back nearly 30 years, and beloved characters were saddled with impenetrable backstories and middle-age. Ultimate Marvel made Spider Man, X-Men, and the rest teens in the present day, rejuvenating the industry and setting the stage for Marvel’s string of hit films.

Most people think they’d be thrilled to have their memoir snapped up for a movie. The author had a different, more troubled experience.