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3 weeks ago | 
libertiesjournal.com | Andrew Marzoni
Among the many grievances aired by Norman Podhoretz in his insufferable 1967 memoir Making It is an already septic grudge concerning The New Yorker’s publication of James Baldwin’s most famous essay in 1962.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Andrew Marzoni
Lady Liberty turned on her head is the sort of image one might expect a surly teenager with artistic aspirations to produce after reading The Great Gatsby or Howard Zinn, and it is the first image that the viewer of Brady Corbet’s third feature, The Brutalist, sees once the VistaVision logotype, announcement of an overture, and a countdown have flitted across the screen.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
nyra.nyc | Andrew Marzoni
Founded in 2004, the Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame (LIMEHOF) has for two years occupied the former site of the Dogwood Hollow Amphitheatre, where Louis Armstrong performed in 1958.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
nyra.nyc | Andrew Marzoni
Phillips’s musical sequel to his haggardly wrought early Scorsese pastiche more aptly encompasses the existential malaise of NYFF62 than the proudest members of its main slate. The New York Film Festival ran from September 27 to October 14 at Lincoln Center and additional venues throughout the city.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Andrew Marzoni
The Beat writer William S. Burroughs began his second book, Queer, just months after killing his wife, Joan Vollmer, at a party above the Bounty Bar in Mexico City. Though he completed the novella in 1953, Queer was not released to the public until 1985, after Burroughs’s new agent, Andrew Wylie, had secured a $200,000 deal with Viking-Penguin for the rights to his back catalog, which kept him afloat until his death, at 83, in 1997.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Andrew Marzoni
The Beat writer William S. Burroughs began his second book, Queer, just months after killing his wife, Joan Vollmer, at a party above the Bounty Bar in Mexico City. Though he completed the novella in 1953, Queer was not released to the public until 1985, after Burroughs’s new agent, Andrew Wylie, had secured a $200,000 deal with Viking-Penguin for the rights to his back catalog, which kept him afloat until his death, at 83, in 1997.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
nyra.nyc | Andrew Marzoni
To lionize politicians in the service of upholding the fraudulence of power and the futility of governance is one of the most insidious crimes a work of art can commit. When aimed at gaining influence over a susceptible populace, such unscrupulous bootlicking is easily recognized as propaganda—less so when the audience is already seated in the space reserved for the choir.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Andrew Marzoni
Annie Baker’s plays present characters who, if not miserable, are not far off, in circumstances to which they would mostly rather not be confined, but are. For another “not,” one might add that her drama is not explicitly dramatic, which is in fact a virtue of the hyperrealistic style that makes her one of the greatest playwrights working in American theater today.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
nyra.nyc | Andrew Marzoni
In the Brooklyn edition of Monopoly, the deed to Junior’s Restaurant & Bakery costs 220 fake dollars. At the cheesecake chain’s flagship location, on Flatbush Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, the game is on sale for $39.99. My breakfast—two scrambled eggs with American cheese on a roll with home fries, a cup of coffee, a seltzer, and a slice of cheesecake—comes up just shy of that, tip included.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
newrepublic.com | Andrew Marzoni
What do the sex lives of historical figures tell us that we don’t already know? What, for instance, do we stand to gain from learning that Marilyn Monroe called Arthur Miller “Daddy,” that Sanskrit made Oppenheimer horny, and Elvis saved himself for marriage? Why do we want to watch Napoleon do it but not Princess Diana or Lucy and Desi?
