By Gregory Crofton Eli Timoner was a successful man in charge of his life. He also cared about the people around him and didn’t dodge difficult fights, even if they were political in nature. But then something bad and unexpected…
Kurt Vonnegut: The Shape of Stories
Acclaimed writer Kurt Vonnegut uses graphing to illustrate how many stories there are yet to tell. Humanity tends to tell the same ones over and over again.
DOC NYC: This Vermont College was the Place to Be for Young American Writers in the 1980s
THE END OF THE WORLD By Gregory Crofton Former Vanity Fair writer Matt Tyrnauer’s (Studio 54, Where’s My Roy Cohn?) new doc “The End of the World” examines what made Bennington College a very liberal and an especially good place…
LOAN WOLVES: One Man Gets to the Bottom of the $2 Trillion Student Loan Crisis
By Gregory Crofton Why would “Loan Wolves” director Blake Zeff dare take on the story of our more than 20-year nearly $2 trillion dollar student loan crisis? Zeff, a former politics editor for Salon, probably took it on because he…
CBGML Episode 74: Tangerine Dreaming
TANGERINE DREAMING: Soundtrack to a smoother, sexier – false – future. This ersatz future led to pretentious dirty talk, and terrible voting habits. If you wait on a billionaire and they don’t tip you AT LEAST $5000, they are slime.…