I’m an author & arts funder. Here’s what my fellow writers and artists are afraid to tell you, and what we can do to help. — I am about to make a very public complaint about one of the best things that ever happened to me. This, I think it fair to say, is something very few authors would do. The risk of biting the hand that doesn’t feed you is not worth it for most…

Emotional honesty and speaking truth to power deserve more attention than Lenny Kravitz’s abs Steven Colbert recently claimed that he was People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive, a poke at POTUS for claiming election victory when the truth said otherwise. Among other outcomes, Colbert’s bit drew everyone’s weary attention back to…

A Walk, A Talk, A Poem

Discussing the Ineffable with the Greatest Everyman Actor of our Generation — Whether you know him from Groundhog Day, Glee, Silicon Valley, Mississippi Burning, or The Goldbergs, there’s no denying that Stephen Tobolowsky is one of our generation’s finest character actors. His memoir, My Adventures with God, is a first-person exploration of the notion that we can chart the arc of our…

That thing under the surface tells us a lot about ourselves If you want to evoke the best and worst in men, just add sharks. I saw JAWS the summer it opened. I was nine, nursing a broken wrist and an ugly crosshatch of stitches on my upper lip. We…