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The Man Who Made Star Wars

Modesto is a small California town that gains its livelihood from its shops and its farms. Beyond its few streets lies the walnut ranch where George Lucas was raised. The town has one cinema on its…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5033 words)

Milan Kundera, The Art of Fiction No. 81

This interview is a product of several encounters with Milan Kundera in Paris in the fall of 1983. Our meetings took place in his attic apartment near Montparnasse. We worked in the small room that…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4767 words)
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International

Usain Bolt is coming to the London Olympics a defeated man, but apparently no one wants to believe it. Bolt recently lost his first 100-meter race in two years in Kingston, Jamaica. Afterwards, he…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2999 words)

A Conversation with Blake Snyder, Part 1

Blake Snyder is a true authority on both the craft of storytelling and the business savvy required to sell a screenplay in Hollywood. He’s personally written and sold dozens of scripts,…
PUBLISHED: March 21, 2008
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3184 words)

Sam Shepard, The Art of Theater No. 12

This interview was conducted over several days in the living room of a Manhattan apartment by the East River. For the last meeting Sam Shepard arrived at the end of a late-afternoon snowstorm, his…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5007 words)

Are Apps The Future of Book Publishing?

(Photo credit: John Blyberg) We’re at the dawn of the tablet era now. Earlier this month, Apple sold 3 million of its new iPad during the opening weekend, with some analysts expecting over 60…
AUTHOR:Alex Knapp
PUBLISHED: March 30, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (721 words)

Anita Brookner, The Art of Fiction No. 98

Anita Brookner works in an office at the Courtauld Institute filled with books and pictures of French paintings, a desk strewn with papers, and an old typewriter. She also works in her Chelsea home,…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5647 words)

A reader’s journey of self-transformation from disease to ease.

Photo by C.J.W. Johson, 1870 On the winter solstice of 2008, I am wobbling in orange Wellies atop a bed of rocks and sea anemones, making my inelegant way to the “big rock.” Cupped in…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2507 words)

The Week’s Best Longreads

The Fall of the Creative Class Frank Bures, Thirty Two The theory that hip, “creative class” residents drive economic growth has become an article of faith among urban planners. Frank…
PUBLISHED: June 23, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (260 words)
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