June 3, 2023 
Quillette
The sardonic inferno.
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March 15, 2021 
The Arts Fuse
Tribute to a great friend.
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October 17, 2019
The Arts Fuse
Harold Bloom’s Pursuit of “Difficult Pleasures”
“What is the function of literary criticism in a Disinformation Age? Read, reread, describe, evaluate, appreciate: that is the art of literary criticism for the present time.”
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December 12, 2018
The Arts Fuse
Arts Remembrance: Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks — A Matter of the Heart
His elegies for the wilted flowers of romance were shouted over songs that were lovelorn, tuneful, and fierce.
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October 10, 2017
The Arts Fuse
Rock Remembrance: Tom Petty — Everyman’s Songwriter
The world-class songwriter managed to not only survive but thrive within the ever-changing music world.
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November 15, 2016
The Arts Fuse
The Somber Artistry of Leonard Cohen
Cohen wrote with a mature poet’s sense of compression and depth and with the rueful wit of the seeker who has come to the limits of searching.
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August 13, 2014
The Arts Fuse
Farewell Robin Williams — Manic Master of Comedy
The death of Robin Williams has hit hard- his irresistible comic joie de vivre has delightful us for decades.
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February 17, 2014
Love Money Clothes
Philip Seymour Hoffman Was Not Cool
Hoffman brought serious humanity to all his flawed, furious, and often quite fucked-up characters.
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November 4, 2013
The Millions
How his fine, fine music changed our lives.
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May 11, 2007
Flak Magazine
Say toodle-oo to one of the last remaining wise men of American letters.
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April 28, 2008
Flak Magazine
He had the rhythm of the universe in his pocket. The sounds! The reverberations!