Steve Miller had a clear-cut legal case when the Geto Boys used his guitar-hook in their raunchy 1990 single “Gangster of Love.” The racial implications weren’t so simple.
Excerpted from The Geto Boys(Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series, 2016) .
A profile of Stanley Kubrick written by his longtime friend.
With The BFG, the filmmaker tackles childhood’s possibilities and terrors once again.
“Think about that: Kim has so thoroughly monetized the very act of living that the money she earns from being filmed going about her life constitutes a relatively small sum compared with the one she generates from allowing people to see pictures and cartoon drawings of the life she has already filmed. She has figured out how to spin the mundanity of being herself—something billions of people do every day for free—into a more lucrative business than being the most famous rapper in the world.”
Four dispatches from the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday.
In most places in the world, June 16 is just another day on the calendar, but here in Dublin, the day that James Joyce earmarked for Ulysses is celebrated with a fervor not seen here since the days of the druids when, if you really wanted to party, you needed a couple skeins of wine and a grove full of virgins.
For decades, the lead actor at an acclaimed storefront Chicago theater beat, groped, and choked his female co-stars in front of audiences, while manipulating them into coercive relationships offstage.
A profile of Roseanne Barr and her multiple personalities.
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A profile of Chloë Sevigny, 19-year-old It Girl.
An $140 million blockbuster written and funded by a billionaire, ‘Empires of the Deep’ was supposed to be China’s ‘Avatar,’ featuring mermaids, Greek warriors, pirates, sea monsters, and an even international stars.
Six years after being filmed, the movie has never seen the light of day.
How a group of Queens high schoolers changed music forever while barely managing to remain on speaking terms.
A profile of Andy Kaufman.
How artist Petr Pavlensky uses his body and the Russian legal system as canvases.
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A profile of the man who helped invent the modern art of presidential spin and came to embody the blurry line between journalist and government official.
We have a rich literature. But sometimes it’s a literature too ready to be neutralized, to be incorporated into the ambient noise. This is why we need the writer in opposition, the novelist who writes against power, who writes against the corporation or the state or the whole apparatus of assimilation. We’re all one beat away from becoming elevator music.
The story of the landmark musical’s improbable success.
An oral history of Aaliyah.
The fabled venue where the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, and Prince emerged.
“A paean 2 Prince.”
The Cosmo editor and author of Sex and the Single Girl’s rocky real-life relationships.
“The tragedy of Dorothy Parker, it seems to me, isn’t that she succumbed to alcoholism or died essentially alone. It was that she was too intelligent to believe that she had made the most of herself.”
A profile of Erykah Badu.
A profile of author Maggie Nelson.
How Irv Teibel pioneered the capturing and repackaging of nature’s acoustics.
“It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation. I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.”
A profile of Merle Haggard.
