Kerry Howley

2 weeks ago | nymag.com | Kerry Howley

On Dan Caldwell's 87th day as a senior official at the Department of Defense, he read some intelligence reports and prepped for some phone calls and ordered from the secretary's mess his favorite Pentagon lunch: "steak bites" with asparagus and mashed potatoes. It was April 15. Pete Hegseth, Caldwell's friend for more than a decade and the reason he had been elevated as a 38-year-old to the role of senior adviser, spent that particular Thursday at the White House rather than in the office.

2 months ago | vulture.com | Kerry Howley

It is commonplace among poets and musicians and painters to express a fear of the audience — its ability to corrupt with praise, to transform art into parody — but this is not the case among stand-up comedians, who are given to cast the ticket holder as the arbiter of authenticity itself. “The audience doesn’t let you be delusional,” Whitney Cummings once said. “They just call bullshit on you.

Mar 30, 2025 | mailchi.mp | Yiyun Li |Ronan Farrow |Kerry Howley |Philip Holsinger

And now, The SLR is all Michael's! More than two decades ago, when I was a young reporter interested in “narrative storytelling,” I bought a copy of Robert McKee’s, “Story: Style, Structure, and the Principles of Screenwriting.” The book went on to become an industry bible but also an object of contempt, blamed for movie making sapped of authenticity and originality.

Mar 25, 2025 | nymag.com | Kerry Howley

It is exceptionally hard to know how long long-lived animals endure. For the vast majority of species there are no growth rings to count, no blood tests to perform, no methods beyond marking time. The way scientists assess the longevity of wild animals is to tag them, go away, and hope to see them again. We know albatrosses live long lives because a 38-year-old ornithologist put a ring on a bird and caught her again when he was 84.

Jan 20, 2025 | hoerzu.at | Kerry Howley |Susanna Fogel

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