Harvey Weinstein’s Former Employees Reckon With What They Knew and What They Didn’t

Without naming names, Dana Goodyear recounts how former employees of Harvey Weinstein are feeling since more than four dozen women have come forward with allegations against him.

Source: New Yorker
Published: Oct 19, 2017
Length: 10 minutes (2,514 words)

The Ghostly Love Triangle of the Mission School

Married artists Margaret Kilgallen and Barry McGee were progenitors of San Francisco’s Mission School movement. After Kilgallen died at 33, Clare Rojas married her husband, adopted her daughter, and inherited an artistic legacy.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Aug 10, 2015
Length: 23 minutes (5,950 words)

Hollywood Shadows: A Cure for Blocked Screenwriters

The writer was in despair. For a year and a half, he had been trying to write a script that he owed to a studio, and had been unable to produce anything. Finally, he started seeing a therapist. The therapist, Barry Michels, told him to close his eyes and focus on the things he was grateful for. The first time he did this, in the therapist’s office, there was a long silence. “What about your dog?” Michels asked. “O.K. I’m grateful for my dog,” the writer said after a while. “The sun?” “Fine, the sun,” the writer said. “I’m grateful for sun. Sometimes.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Mar 15, 2011
Length: 21 minutes (5,383 words)

Kid Goth

Neil Gaiman’s fantasies.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jan 25, 2010
Length: 29 minutes (7,269 words)

Man of Extremes

The Return of James Cameron.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Oct 26, 2009
Length: 23 minutes (5,840 words)